Park(ing) Day 2015

The atti­tude around Park(ing) Day has changed dra­mat­ic­ally since I first got involved a few years ago. Where I was strug­gling with by-laws to work around not get­ting per­mis­sion to set up my space, WCC has now brought it into Parks Week and the Wel­ling­ton Sculp­ture Trust does the logist­ic­al man­age­ment. On March 11, a total […]

Park(ing) for People

Park(ing) Day is com­ing around again and this time there’s some offi­cial sup­port. Wel­ling­ton Sculp­ture Trust is call­ing for expres­sions of interest to join them on the day. The clos­ing date is August 12th (sorry for the late post­ing on this), so get those idea machines cook­ing. There are a total of 20 loc­a­tions that will be […]

Parking Day update

After get­ting in touch with appro­pri­ate people from Wel­ling­ton City Coun­cil to dis­cuss plans and get per­mis­sion, it has become obvi­ous that par­ti­cip­at­ing in Park(ing) Day is going to be dif­fi­cult. Bylaws gov­ern the use of vehicles in park­ing spaces with­in Wel­ling­ton. How­ever, I can­not find the spe­cif­ic bylaw implied by the officer I con­tac­ted: You […]