Vancouver charging for commercial use of city parks

The Vancouver Sun is reporting that commercial users of Vancouver city parks such as Yoga instructors and Bootcamps must apply for a license and pay $12.70 an hour to use parks. The rules for regulations of the parks have been in place they just have not been enforced for these types of activities. See Boot camp operators forced to grunt and bear costs to use Vancouver parks

This is not a major issue nor is it a heavy price to pay to rent nice real estate. A one hour class for $13.00 is cheap compared to buying a piece of land and keeping it in nice shape for your classes.

Obviously I’m a fan of pay for play or the Federal Fee Demonstration program. Besides the money stays where it is paid rather than getting shipped back to Washington DC like all other land management fees.