Kincardine Council has made a move to consider signing a lease with the owner of the former Pierson Motors site to temporarily offset the loss of on-street parking during the construction on Queen Street.
Director Of Infrastructure & Development Adam Weishar explained to council that it would be possible to do, with the funding coming from the contingency reserve fund.
“That would help offset the parking impacts that we’re going to see through the Queen Street reconstruction. [The owner] has provided a proposal to us to rent those lands at $3,000 per month. Aggregately, over the course of the year, would equate to $36,000.”
While municipal crews are completing the Queen Street Revitalization Project, the parking spaces that are typically available along the street would not be while work is underway.
This means that while the work is being completed, there would be around 20 parking spaces that would be missing, thus potentially impacting local businesses in the area.
The offered lease agreement would allow the municipality to temporarily re-purpose part of the lot from the former Pierson Motors into a makeshift municipal lot, and create between 25-28 parking spaces.
