Vehicles bearing veterans licence plates can park for free in Vancouver, Coquitlam, Port Moody, Surrey and New West. Why not Burnaby?
Remembrance Day is coming, but veterans in Burnaby will have to pay for parking in city-owned spaces and lots like everyone else as they attend services.He wrote a letter to mayor and council last month calling on them to adopt a bylaw that would allow vehicles and motorcycles with veteran plates to park for free in the city.
Vancouver amended its parking meter bylaw in 2021 to add free parking for any vehicle bearing a veteran's or Memorial Cross licence plate, after a 2020 pilot convinced staff the move would result in "no material impacts" on parking revenue, according to a 2021 report to Vancouver city council. The report estimated the city would lose $8,000 a year if it continued with free parking for all veterans and $5,000 annually if it restricted free veterans parking to Burnaby residents.
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