Paid parking at Vernon meters to resume next week

The days of free parking around Vernon are coming to an end.

The city has announced bylaw enforcement of on-street parking meters and two hour parking zones will resume Thursday, July 2, 2020.

City council temporarily suspended enforcement back in April, with the exception of enforcement related to safety issues, to encourage people to use the downtown and access businesses that remained open during the Covid-19 pandemic.

A city news release said now that B.C. has entered Phase 2 of the Restart Plan, businesses and service providers have started to reopen, and traffic volumes and short term parking needs have increased across the city.