West Vancouver residents can get a $20 annual parking pass for use at Whytecliffe, Lighthouse Park, and Whyte Lake parking lots. The City is also looking at charging for permits to use picnic tables, Divers changing rooms, Dive class/Dive Club usage of the beach, and anything else they can to limit the use of the parks and make some coin
Covid stranger panic allowed waterfront residents in West Vancouver to lobby West Vancouver city hall to put year round parking restrictions in around all of the useful beach accesses in West Vancouver. They now have between 1 hour at Bachelor Bay to 3 hours at Stearman Beach (where I put in to kayak Pt Atchinson). At Stearman, a local waterfront owner patrols the limit and calls the City Bylaws to get offenders ticketed. They have successfully banned dogs from the beach (despite waterfront owners dogs running around) And banning winter use fire pits, despite the owners all having their own fire pits.
Eagle Harbour still has some unregulated parking spots probably because of the yacht club and their need for visitor parking. This is a good spot to put in to access the waters from Lighthouse Park, the little offshore islands, and past Fisherman’s Cove over towards Horseshoe Bay
it’s fair to say that I’m pissed off at the restriction of these public amenities by the influence of a privileged minority.