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Leave Steveston village alone

Open letter to city council and Wayne Mercer, City of Richmond bylaws manager, I am writing to you to ask that you reconsider installing parking meters in Steveston. I don't like it, it won't look nice, and people are going to park wherever anyway.

Open letter to city council and Wayne Mercer, City of Richmond bylaws manager,

I am writing to you to ask that you reconsider installing parking meters in Steveston.

I don't like it, it won't look nice, and people are going to park wherever anyway.

Also, since the lot on Chatham was made into a paid parking lot, hardly anyone parks there and now visitors park on the residential streets. So, unless you are planning on metering the entire area of Steveston, we will all be affected by meters being installed in the village.

I live in Steveston and people parking on the residential roads doesn't bother me. What does bother me is the thought of paying to park when I want to stop in at my favourite coffee shop on my way home, which means I'm going to take my business elsewhere. And I'm not the only one who is thinking this.

There is a trickle down effect here and others that I know feel the same way. Moms who drop their kids off at school are not going to go into the village afterwards if they have to pay for parking.

We pay enough in taxes and all the extras that government, at all levels, take from us. The Steveston Merchant Association is against this as you know and my neighbours and I are also against this. This is just another cash cow. So, leave our village alone.

Kim Worrall Richmond