St. Catharines Residents Will Have to Pay for Beach Parking Pass

Wednesday, 13 April 2022 05:37

By Tami Jeanneret/Linda Morgan

City council approves pilot parking program

For the first time, St. Catharines residents will have to pay for a season pass to park at the beach.

City council agreeing to start charging residents for parking passes at Lakeside Park and Sunset beaches.

The money will be used to help pay for the cost of a new digital parking permit program.

The cost of the May to September pass will be $15.

Visitors and residents without a permit will have to pay $3 per hour to park.

Resident permit holders will not have a three hour parking limit.

Up to two passes can be purchased per household, but only one permit can be used by any household at any one beach at a time.

Staff say the new program will help them deal with the high volume of parking permit requests.

In 2020, the city handed out free passes to residents in an effort to deal with overcrowding at the beaches.

Staff had to manually process close to 14,000 permits that year .

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