Coquitlam residents will get an extra four months — for free — tacked onto their annual parking pass for civic recreation centres.
Last week, the city announced it had dipped into its Community Support and Recovery Program (CSRP) to subsidize the bonus.
The $30 pass is good for the City Centre Aquatic Complex (CCAC) and the Pinetree Community Centre as well as city hall.
The city can’t offer refunds for passes bought before this year because of “system restrictions,” a press release states.
The bonus comes as rec facilities reopen as the COVID-19 vaccines roll out, and as CCAC is partially closed for renovations.
Pay parking was set up at two rec facilities — as well as the Evergreen Cultural Centre — to ease the crunch when Douglas College was built, said Dragana Mitic, Coquitlam’s transportation planning manager.
“For the Poirier Sport and Leisure Centre, the city did not see the same pressures from non-facility users on their parking facilities as for facilities in the City Centre and around SkyTrain stations,” she wrote to the Tri-City News. “As such, we did not see a need to bring in pay parking around the PSLC area.”
