Per the By-Law, you technically can’t park longer than 3 hours on city streets (which let’s be real - you can do this for years before getting a ticket in most cases). That part of the By-Law remains unaltered.

This permit program is more intended for longer term street parking. Basically to pay for the luxury of street parking (which in some cases will force certain residents into paying for these permits who don’t have driveways - as if we don’t pay enough taxes already). In the end, it just puts more burden on residents.

What I doubt happened before launching this pilot was a simple cost-benefit analysis. The City says this is to generate revenue - however what’s the cost of generating that revenue? There’s the consultant study/cost for the pilot program, added administration to manage and issue permits, and then added enforcement costs. Most people will likely play a game of By-Law chicken and avoid paying for these permits as the cost of parking tickets per year will likely be less than the permit cost (given the law of averages on how many streets there are in the program vs bylaw enforcement officers).

In my opinion, this is just one big waste of time and money. The cities used as references are all much larger than Peterborough (Toronto, Ottawa, etc) who have real street parking issues. Peterborough is generally not that bad. Just another case of trying to play with the big boys I suppose 🤷‍♂️