On the so-called Pionier-Bolsterrein, on the north side of the village, 2000 new homes must be installed. Residents of that new neighborhood have to pay for parking spaces at clustered places in the neighborhood. But according to local residents, the municipality estimates the expected number of new cars much too low.
“As a result, that neighborhood will not only be full in no time, but we will also notice that in the surrounding neighborhoods,” says Bekema. “The idea of introducing paid parking there was to make it less attractive for the new Vennepers to park at the old Vennepers in front of the door.”
That paid parking is now only suspended in the existing neighborhoods, does not help anything, he says. “If you don’t do anything about the total number of parking spaces, this decision has only become even more tempting to park in the neighborhood in the neighborhood. It is going to walk out of the claws with those cars, and then it is just what happens.”
Do not pay completely off the table
The municipality says it has come to the decision after the hundreds of reactions that came to them, both online and at information meetings. To prevent new residents from putting their car outside the neighborhood, they want to meet parking rules.
With the new set -up, paid parking is not yet completely off the table. Around the Getsewoud shopping center and sports complex De Estafette must be paid soon. And even in the surrounding neighborhoods it is still possible, provided that the parking pressure becomes high enough and the residents agree. Bekema: “That is just about the only commitment that we really got hard. We will see.”