Sylvia Huitson, a counsellor, said she had been in the Powderham Business Centre for 12 years. If someone was a client of hers, they could be suicidal, have post-traumatic stress disorder, or work at the hospital but see a counsellor on their lunch break, she said. “You may have seen an accident or you may have been picking up body parts on the road. “Parking four blocks away will cause a huge amount of added distress for a person who is already not coping.” Infrastructure and planning manager David Langford told councillors they had “tried to find a balance between all of the competing needs of car parking in the CBD”.
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