By Angela Brown

City reminding residents of 2 hour parking limit downtown

Jul 4, 2018 | 12:00 PM

The City of North Battleford is reminding residents and business employees not to leave their vehicles parked downtown for more than two hours at a time, or else they could face a fine.

Street signs are visible on 101st Street near 11th Avenue stating that from Mondays to Fridays there is a two-hour parking limit from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. during business hours. From 5 p.m. to 3 a.m. there is no time limit, and from 3 a.m. to 7 a.m. no parking is allowed. On Saturdays and Sundays, parking is free throughout the day with no time restrictions. Drivers who violate the parking restrictions will be ticketed or towed away, according to the city’s bylaw. 

Mayor Ryan Bater said the bylaw for the two-hour maximum parking has always been in place but now the city will be more vigorously enforcing it.

He said it is mainly downtown business employees who are the main culprits, often leaving their vehicles parked on the streets downtown throughout the day.

“We are enforcing a two-hour [limit] downtown because there are a lot of people who work downtown who have been parking on vacant commercial land thinking they are parking lots when they are in fact not parking lots,” Bater said.

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He said downtown employees need to park in the parking areas designated for their businesses instead.

The mayor added while some people have been parking on the city’s lots while they were vacant, now that more of the lots are being sold and developed and are no longer available people are instead parking longer on downtown streets as a result, making the issue more of a concern.

“Those public areas are for customers downtown to shop and visit businesses,” Bater said.

angela.brown@jpbg.ca

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