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Many of our gravel parking lots were intended to be temporary. Which reminds me - the parking lot on Jasper Ave beside the Boston Pizza looks like utter crap. Are they allowed to do the bare minimum there or can it be reported?
Yes, although after some point in time I don't think something can be considered to be temporary. I don't know if there are any rules about this, but to me something like 3 to 5 years makes sense.

The parking lots by BP have been around for decades now, though they are not gravel they do not look great and there are several others like them or worse.
 
It's such a perfect example of Edmonton's philosophy of good enoughism: the crappy grass, the chain link fence, the barely adequate picnic tables, all right in the middle of our most walkable neighbourhood. Yes, it's better than an empty lot but surely we can do better than that!
If you hadn't mentioned grass, I would've thought you were referring to this.
 
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Many of our gravel parking lots were intended to be temporary. Which reminds me - the parking lot on Jasper Ave beside the Boston Pizza looks like utter crap. Are they allowed to do the bare minimum there or can it be reported?
Properly lit, landscaped, hard surfaced and drained.
 
I wish they would make some further improvements to that intersection.
Yeah, that's the thing - people turning right rarely look if there's anyone on the path. The worst one is the bigger intersection by Bellamy, Rossdale, and 103 St. Those are iffy at best since the lane closest to you will stop if they see you but the same cannot be said for the further lanes. We've also found that a lot of people now cut through the neighbourhood via 101 St from 97 Ave to Rossdale Road and I keep forgetting to call the city about it because they zoom through with little regard for the fact that it's a quiet residential area with plenty of dog walkers and cyclists.
 

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