When Elaine Hanson moved into the New Cambodia condo development on Hanson Street, she was supposed to have a parking spot.

Instead, propane tanks had to be placed in the last available parking spots in order to be the proper distance from the units. Now, Hanson is left with few options for parking.

On Monday night, she asked for council's help to secure herself a parking spot, calling on council to provide on-street parking permits for condo owners like herself.

She brought forward her request before council appproved third reading of a new traffic bylaw.

The bylaw offers the on-street parking permits to those in single-detached homes, duplexes or townhouses next to areas of the downtown core which have the two-hour parking limit.

Coun. Kirk Cameron has been pushing for the permits to apply to residents of multifamily homes and condos (he lives in the Bling condominium downtown).

His motion to do so two weeks ago was defeated. City staff argued they wanted to take a slower approach to providing the permits so there's less of an impact.

Cameron proposed the amendment again this week.

However, he was informed by Rob Fendrick, the city's director of corporate services, that under another bylaw, the same motion can't be brought forward within one year except through a notice of motion, which would provide a two-week time period before the motion would come forward. Council would have to vote on bringing it forward again.

For Hanson, meanwhile, the on-street parking permits would make no difference in getting her a spot.

As bylaw manager Dave Pruden reported Monday night, there is no time limit for parking on the street next to New Combodia, so a permit wouldn't be needed anyway.

Council debated possibly deferring the third reading of the bylaw to deal with that and other issues. Members ultimately voted in favour of third reading, thus adopting the bylaw.

Among the provisions of the updated bylaw is one that will lower the speed limit along Rhine Way in Takhini North to 30 kilometres an hour.

Coun. Mike Gladish had proposed the change to deal with traffic speeding through the neighbourhood.

While council passed the bylaw with the new speed limit in place for Rhine Way, it seems there could be more lowering of speed limits through the entire neighbourhood, at least if one resident has his way.

Scott Boone also addressed council Monday night, asking that the entire speed limit throughout Takhini North be reduced to 30 km/h.

He pointed out the neighbourhood is full of children playing outside, many pedestrians walk their dogs, and there's a lot of traffic speeding through.

About nine out of every 10 vehicles do so, he said, also pointing out that the area playground is probably the only one in the city without signs nearby warning drivers to slow down for the kids who may be going to or from the area.

Boone asked the city to put signs up alerting motorists to the playground and its youthful users.

It was pointed out that these issues are typically dealt with through the traffic committee.

Boone said he'd be willing to meet with members to talk about what he believes is needed in the neighbourhood.