Walsh said property currently occupied by surface parking is not utilized to its best use and is “sitting there waiting to be developed.” The matter was also brought up during city consultation with various groups, which identified surface parking as a poor use of land downtown. Walsh said such lots downtown are currently used for employee parking. “We’re relying on these old surface parking lots that are going to disappear,” he said. Walsh is co-owner of The Vic coffe shop at Victoria Street and Fourth Avenue and owns Moviemart at St. Paul Street and Fourth Avenue. Community services director Byron McCorkell said the city is looking at how to best manage parking on the street and in its own lots. He said staff are of the opinion the greatest downtown parking problem is employee parking. He said if employees park in off-street locations, it would free up parking spaces for those who come downtown to shop.
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Community services manager Tammy Blundell said city staff must give people living in temporary shelters time to pack up and leave before dismantling an encampment. That process was underway in this situation, she said, with a notice being left at the encampment last Thursday (April 15), when the encampment’s occupants were not there. Photograph By Sandy Seibel/Facebook
The tent was filled with numerous items, garbage and an estimated 150 discarded needles. Photograph By Sandy Seibel/Facebook A Kamloops woman said she is fed up with garbage left from homeless encampments along the Thompson River after helping clean one up over the weekend when City of Kamloops staff did not attend when called.
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