Storytime at the downtown Vancouver library, held on several weekday mornings, is one of the building’s most bustling times. It’s also when library patrons might have the most difficulty finding a parking spot.
It wasn’t supposed to be this way, but library officials and patrons are making do with fewer than expected parking spaces and a building entrance that’s located a city block away from the parking lot.
“Most of the time people can find a free, two-hour spot,” Vancouver Community Library building manager Karin Ford said, but, “there are times when it’s a challenge.”
The original plan was to build an underground parking garage at the same time the library was being built, and that garage would include 200 public parking spaces, but the Great Recession prevented developers from moving forward as planned. That