Parking changes coming to downtown Paris frustrate business owners [Video]

Grand River St. N in Paris is set to undergo a major change next year, but businesses along the road don’t support it.

Downtown Paris will be dug up next year as the County of Brant starts replacing aging infrastructure. At the same time, the county is also trying to modernize the area. It will be installing expanded sidewalks, new street features and the street parking will be changing from angle parking to parallel parking.

“Myself And 99 per cent of the merchants are not for it. It will remove half of the parking on the main street,” Leah Thomas, owner of Suzanne’s of Paris on Grand River St. N, said.

“Most people do not like to parallel park as it is, especially with the busy Grand River Street that it is coming and going.”

“I’ve actually had people say they will not come down if they have to parallel …