Why is so much parking clearance needed around hydrants? It’s not

Metro Vancouver’s engineers and fire chiefs are offering a partial solution to the parking shortage that’s particularly affecting Surrey and Coquitlam, where increased densification in some neighbourhoods means not enough room for all the extra cars.
They say the answer to creating several hundred additional on-street parking spots is hiding in plain sight: By cutting the no-parking clearance around hydrants in half, there would be room for more cars on streets.
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