Removing Parking Minimums

Cities across North America are reducing and removing parking minimums. A total of 113 Canadian cities and towns have removed all parking minimums city-wide or for specific areas or for specific building purposes. Guelph should join this growing list of cities and towns by removing parking minimums to help make Guelph a healthier and more wonderful community.

Parking minimums, which are zoning bylaws requiring developers and businesses to provide a certain number of parking spots per area, are an issue in our city. Although parking minimums were initially created to deal with too many cars parked on the streets clogging them up, the usefulness of parking minimums has long since passed. Now, parking minimums are hampering Guelph’s efforts to be an affordable, healthy, and sustainable city.

Let’s help make our city healthier, happier, and more affordable by removing parking minimums.

For more information, please see our newly released policy document from Guelph Community for Active Transportation (GCAT) and Transit Action Alliance of Guelph (TAAG).

We encourage you to ask your Councillors to support removing parking minimums. Send them our policy document.

If your local Guelph business or organization wants to endorse our policy document, please contact Chris Greyson-Gaito.

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