There are more than 2,000 on-street and off-street parking spaces in the downtown, with additional opportunities for parking being looked at through public realm improvements in downtown, such as the new formalized parking that was constructed along Daggett Street in 2024.

The Municipal Development Plan directs that parking in the downtown should be carefully managed to provide enough parking supply to entice people to shop in the area and support local businesses, while avoiding onerous parking standards that dominate the public realm and discourage new development. The recently adopted Land Use Bylaw removed the requirement for minimum parking standards for individual uses, but allowed for the consideration of parking studies and contains standards on how parking is configured, if it is provided on-site

A downtown parking study undertaken by Bunt and Associates in 2024, identified the following conditions:

• No significant parking shortfall – There is no current significant parking shortfall in the downtown area. Up to 524 (weekday) to 566 (weekend) on-street spaces and 536 (weekday) to 834 (weekend) off-street spaces are available during the peak parking periods.
• There are high demand parking locations – Although the current parking demands do not exceed the available parking supply, there are a few areas that are experiencing high-use

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