To the editor:
Re: “Fraser Street’s affordability draws new businesses,” July 11.
As a longtime resident of the Fraser Street area, I am always interested in changes to the ’hood. For many years we had almost very few options for shopping or eating on Fraser Street. We welcome all these new businesses but are quite overwhelmed with the traffic and parking issues that have accompanied them.
We live right around the corner from Earnest Ice Cream and they have no off-street parking as do most of the new businesses on this block. We can rarely find a place to park by our house these days and our neighbours are presently exploring with the city getting parking permits for our streets. The city apparently has few or no parking requirements when a business opens in an older building in the community which leaves us with little recourse but to pursue parking restrictions.
Sharon Babu,
Vancouver
