{"id":193,"date":"2015-03-04T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/04\/intelligent-parking-campaign-sti\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:40:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:40:35","slug":"intelligent-parking-campaign-sti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2015\/03\/04\/intelligent-parking-campaign-sti\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelligent parking campaign still underway in Laval"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Tracey Arial,
with files from Robert Frank<\/b><\/p>\n

\nwww.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

About a third of the more than 30 people who attended Pierre Anthian\u2019s intelligent parking public consultation last week got up to praise the idea. <\/p>\n

\u201cParking was bad enough in my previous neighbourhood,\u201d said Daniel something from Ste. Rose. \u201cFor two years, I\u2019ve lived in a neighbourhood of duplexes and it\u2019s become nightmarish.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI congratulate you on this initiative,\u201d said another person, whose name was hard to hear. \u201cIn my neighbourhood, it\u2019s so packed with cars. There are no signs anywhere. It\u2019s abhorrent.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m in favour of your project, but it means a lot of education,\u201d said someone else. \u201cAnd a web application too.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI just want to be able to find a parking spot,\u201d said someone from Ste. Rose. \u201cSnow clearing is not done well in Laval.\u201d <\/p>\n

Despite their comments, the City of Laval does not plan to adopt the practice anytime soon. <\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Anthian had already submitted his project a few months ago, and the experts\u2019 opinion convinced us to turn it down,\u201d said Fran\u00e7ois Brochu, the public relations director from Mayor Marc Demers\u2019 office. \u201cThe resolution he submitted raises no new elements. His proposal cannot be implemented, as it would be greatly detrimental to the maintenance and cleaning of our streets as well as to snow removal. That opinion is based on the expertise and experience of municipal public works experts. Elected councilors would certainly take that into account should they have to vote on the issue [again].\u201d <\/p>\n

David de Cotis, the vice-chairman of Laval\u2019s executive committee told The Suburban<\/i> reporter Robert Frank something similar.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve mandated the administration to look at the whole parking issue of the City of Laval not only alternative parking, but as a whole, to devise one strategy that fits all,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are aware there is more efficiency we can gain, but we are looking at the whole way parking is being used today to go to intelligent alternative parking. It has been done in LaSalle and it has been done in Verdun and they are the two cities in Montreal with the worst snow removal services because of that. It is not Mr. Anthian who is going to tell the city what to do or how to do it. It is going to be the administration that is going to come to a recommendation as to what\u2019s legal, what\u2019s not legal, what can be done and the costs associated with that\u2014and all that with one vision.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both de Cotis and Brochu also said that the legal opinion obtained by Mr. Anthian has no credibility because it\u2019s based largely on a bylaw which no longer applies because it was repealed in 2008. <\/p>\n

While it is true that the ten-page legal opinion by lawyer Rusmir Rasic from Laurendeau Hebert briefly mentions local bylaw L10241, which no longer exists, it\u2019s not a significant part of the letter.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\nThe old regulation is mentioned as the reason that Laval lost a lawsuit in 2006 because citizens claimed that the bylaw was too difficult to follow. Rasic also cited cases in other cities in which municipal regulations were struck down due to their confusing nature. <\/p>\n

In the last part of his letter, Rasic recommends ways to make sure that a new intelligent parking system regulation avoids such legal challenges. <\/p>\n

The rest of Rasic\u2019s opinion references sections in the Quebec Highway Safety Act (Code de la securit\u00e9 routiers). <\/i>
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