“You need another $22 million to get it done, and that's just not walking around money that we have to take away,” McIsaac said. The project, which was approved in concept by council in November 2020, comes with $7.3 million in provincial funding for both a transit terminal and parking structure, but McIsaac pointed out the city will be on the hook for the remainder. “Homelessness did, dealing with the opioid crisis did, helping people find a doctor, coping with the rising cost of living did, but getting a parking structure on Peter Street wasn't a priority that people talked about.” “When I was talking to all the people, banging on doors, the parking structure on Peter Street didn't come up as ‘Hey, this is one thing you have to do right away,’” he told OrilliaMatters. McIsaac said residents have spoken with him about numerous issues they would like to see quickly addressed in the city, but building a parking structure on Peter Street is not among them. There's other things, there's homelessness, there's the opioid crisis," McIsaac said at the time. “If I had $40 million, I'm not building a parking garage on Peter Street. The estimated $30-million transit hub and multi-level parking structure became a topic of discussion at last week’s annual Mayor’s Breakfast event, along with parking in the downtown more generally. While the previous term of council approved a new transit hub and parking garage for downtown Orillia, Mayor Don McIsaac said he would like to see the city use its resources in other areas – at least for now.
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