The City is now considering putting parking on the median in front of the Palais. However, the restored Palais is slated to open in June, and the median parking lot would not be ready for six months.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, the City is considering allowing the Palais to employ a pre-existing public parking lot to the west of the facility on event days —- at least for the summer, when golf carts could ferry guests between the facility and the lot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I’m not sure how far away this existing parking lot is, but is it so difficult to imagine visitors could consider simply walking along the beautiful lakefront park to the Palais Royale from the parking lot? (Although if\u00a0the lot is east of the Palais, the walk is not so attractive because some of it is away from the water due to private ownership of the waterfront itself).<\/p>\n
Thanks to Roger Brook for the story link.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In April, the Spacing Wire reported on a plan to turn some waterfront parkland near the newly renovated Palais Royale into a parking lot. The Parkdale Liberty is reporting (scroll down — June 3, 2006) that the plan has been reconsidered in light of vehement local opposition. 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