Calgary councillor has possible solution to cul-de-sac parking woes

Legal angle parking could be coming to some Calgary culs-de-sac.

Under provincial law, vehicles can only be parked parallel to the curb. However, for spatialreasons, many cul-de-sac residents opt to angle park so all neighbours have a space in front of their homes.

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City parking officials say they only enforce the parallel parking law on a complaint basis.

But Keating says he has a possible solution to help angle parkers so Calgariansavoid nasty surprise tickets on their windshields, like the ones some Woodbine residents discovered back in October.

Keating says angle parking is not a problem on culs-de-sac if they are wide enough.

He's suggesting on those streets, the parking rules should be like speed limits, where the city can opt to alter the rules if appropriate.

"We can change the speed limit as long as it's signed, so if we had something like a local improvement petition by the local residents, if we had a cost for putting up signs that you could angle park between these signs, it would remove [the problem]not only from ours, butfrom the media and from the disputes between the neighbourhood."

The city says it would take a motion from city council to allow residents to circulate a petition, so they could pay to post signsallowing angle parking.

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