Parking on private property

While we work to obtain authority (from the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure) for our Regional District to have authority to manage parking on the road right-of-way, I'd like to let all private property owners in the False Bay area know that they can, in accordance with our Community Plan and our Land Use Bylaw, as part of permitted home occupation, rent parking spaces for a maximum of four vehicles.

The Land Use Bylaw does not regulate terms and fees for parking, and if you are interested in conducting a parking home occupation on your property, you should read Section 3.6 "Home Enterpirse Provisions" in the Land Use Bylaw before you start. Here is a link to the Land Use Bylaw: http://www.islandstrust.bc.ca/ltc/la/pdf/labylbaselu0078.pdf . If you have any questions about these regulations, please contact our Planner, Linda Prowse, at lprowse [at] islandstrust [dot] bc [dot] ca

If you have the space, you can offer parking space to people on a monthly basis. I would suggest that $10 per month would be a very reasonable rate for each space. (Depending on supply and demand, there might be people happy to pay more than this, or there might be nobody willing to pay that much. Right now there is more demand than supply.) You could retain the right to terminate the arrangement with the vehicle owners on short notice, and have vehicles removed if they were leaking or looked unsightly or you just wanted them gone.

 

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