City scraps plan to pave Edworthy Park lot and charge user fees

CBC News

· Posted: Jun 25, 2025 3:21 PM EDT | Last Updated: June 25

The city's program to pave the northbound parking batch astatine Edworthy Park astatine the extremity of Shaganappi Trail person travel to a screeching halt pursuing a batch of pushback from affected Calgarians.

The metropolis had been holding nationalist consultation sessions this outpouring after its improvement licence emerged successful April.

The roughly $1-million task would person fixed the potholes, drainage and particulate issues, arsenic good arsenic added lighting, EV chargers, and due stalls successful the well-used batch adjacent to the fashionable northwest park.

Opponents of the program raised concerns over the projected parking fees the metropolis said were needed to recoup its costs and to amended manage use of the lot.

But present the licence has been pulled.

"Through the engagement process we heard from parkland users and residents that they are satisfied with the existent batch and would alternatively we support the current, escaped parking statement implicit collecting a interest to money improvements. Therefore we are nary longer proceeding with the project," said Chris Blaschuk, manager of Calgary Parking.

The department says they would person allowed radical to parkland for escaped for two hours escaped and past complaint $.75 cents per hr to a maximum of $5 for the remainder of the day.

But present the metropolis is looking astatine doing immoderate insignificant attraction utilizing taxpayers dollars.

Coun. Terry Wong, who precocious held a municipality hallway for adjacent residents astatine the Parkdale Community Centre, says that could see laying down packed gravel and adding immoderate lighting and curb stops. 

"The assemblage agreed that the information is not the top and they would person a speech with the metropolis astir what insignificant enhancements ... would look like," said Wong.

The city's improvement licence exertion besides included plans to resurface immoderate parkland onshore eastbound of the main lot, person to the Point McKay condos, to make overflow parking.

But those plans, which Wong says besides received a batch of antagonistic feedback from residents, have besides been cancelled, for now.

"You tin ne'er accidental never, but surely not successful the foreseeable future," said Wong.