The Mount Pleasant BIA is a member of the Park the Tax Coalition, a group tasked with opposing TransLink's Parking Site Tax.
To date, the Park the Tax Coalition has had many successes. The Coalition has successfully persuaded the government to dely the introduction of the Parking Site Tax by 1 year; reduce the proposed Tax by 20 per cent; proceed with a review of TransLink's Governance Structure, including a review of TransLink's funding methods; raise public awareness about the level and intensity of business oposition to the Parking Site Tax, including more than 320 media hits to date; and to begin with, recruiting Lower Mainland 23,000 businesses. |
