As Burnaby approves taller and taller condo towers, the parking gets deeper and deeper. “It’ll take 10 minutes just for somebody to park their car,” said a city councillor.
A giant Burnaby tower project in Lougheed with 14 levels of underground parking, almost 50 metres deep, raised eyebrows at city council this week.
“I don’t think that’s realistic for anybody to be driving; it’s right across from the SkyTrain … It’ll take 10 minutes just for somebody to park their car,” Gu said, asking if staff could adjust the amount of parking. Gu also noted that a proposed Metrotown development with 1,250 vehicle parking stalls exceeds the city’s minimum parking requirements.
“I look at the parking stalls in my apartment building, and there’s a ton that are empty, a ton of visitor parking that sits empty, all day all night. And it seems like a waste to be building this, and it gets passed down to the consumer or the individual who lives there at the end of the day.
Coun. Pietro Calendino insisted reducing the parking requirement won’t “make people get rid of their cars and walk or cycle,” and added it would take a generation for the change to happen.
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