Get ready for metered parking in front of 345 Oak Street West.

Council has approved an amendment that would see the current parking spaces move from two hours free to metered parking, with a 2 hour maximum, from Monday to Friday, 8am to 6 pm.

The rate would be $1.25 an hour.

The move is being made because increased development in the area will result in high demand for the parking.

Meantime, Council is supporting an application to name a creek running through John Kennedy Memorial Park.

The Friends of the park are looking to have the creek with headwaters on the top of Thibault Terrace, running through John Kennedy Memorial Park and into Lake Nipissing named ‘John Coffman Creek”.

Coffman’s book “A Small Biological Guide to The John Kennedy Memorial Park” took great interest in documenting plants and wildlife found in the park, documenting area flora and fauna.