[lenaitch]

In Toronto, parking on private property requires consent from the property owner or occupant. If signs are posted indicating parking conditions or prohibitions, vehicles parked against these rules are considered to be without consent. Toronto also regulates parking on public property and has specific rules for electric vehicle charging stations in designated spots.

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Generally, that means if you park and do not go inside the store to shop, but go next door or down a block, you can be in trouble.

Toronto needs to put an end to on-street parking, especially on the arterial roads or streetcar routes. One way to help to do this is require anybody to park in a parking lot of any store (for a time limit the store would allow for) and don't have go inside the store to shop or do business. Drivers could be charged for parking, but get a rebate on their store's sales receipt. Maybe stores in the neighbourhood could get together to arrange to be included and be shared the use of the parking lot.

I'm not sure the Municipal Act gives municipalities the scope of jurisdiction to regulate that and, if it did, I'm not sure the courts would support it. It is, in fact, private property.

If I owned a parking lot that became a de facto public space, why should I continue to pay property taxes and maintenance costs?

 

[turbanplanner]

In Toronto, parking on private property requires consent from the property owner or occupant. If signs are posted indicating parking conditions or prohibitions, vehicles parked against these rules are considered to be without consent. Toronto also regulates parking on public property and has specific rules for electric vehicle charging stations in designated spots.

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Generally, that means if you park and do not go inside the store to shop, but go next door or down a block, you can be in trouble.

Toronto needs to put an end to on-street parking, especially on the arterial roads or streetcar routes. One way to help to do this is require anybody to park in a parking lot of any store (for a time limit the store would allow for) and don't have go inside the store to shop or do business. Drivers could be charged for parking, but get a rebate on their store's sales receipt. Maybe stores in the neighbourhood could get together to arrange to be included and be shared the use of the parking lot.

TBF the parking lot tax incentivizes the opposite imo, also I wonder how effective parking bans would be? 99.999999% of parking infractions aren't enforced. Even "fish in a barrel" things like people parking in fire routes at plazas are never ticketed.