The Labor Party, MDG and SV will give the municipalities the right to introduce a parking fee on private property. – It is not possible for the Labor Party to mean this! says Trygve Slagsvold Vedum.
– Should a private person with a small business premises be forced to introduce a parking fee? It is extreme, says SP leader Vedum about the proposal from the other three opposition parties.
The proposal was one of 128 joint proposals from the Labor Party, MDG and SV in the climate report, which the Storting will vote on on Tuesday.
The proposal reads as follows:
“The Storting asks the government to ensure that municipalities that wish to do so are authorized to impose payment also on private parking areas.”
Vedum is concerned that such a scheme could be used to charge a fee for parking spaces in people’s homes.
– Does Espen Barth Eide (Arbeiderpartiet, ed.journ.) Think that the municipality should be able to charge a tax on his private property or is this only for business? There is nothing about that in the proposal.
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MDG has fronted the proposal earlier, but it is only during the processing of the climate report that the Labor Party has jumped on board.
– It is poorly thought out. This is ring 1 in Oslo thinking, where you want to tax Petter Stordalen and other major players, says Vedum.
– There are many who have a gas station, local shop or a plumbing company on the 1st floor while they live on the 2nd floor. This is how Norway really is, except in the center of Oslo.
Not at people’s homes
The text of the proposal does not specify what type of property it should apply to, but Barth Eide says that it is about commercial property.
– We are talking here about parking associated with work. Typically in city centers, not people’s home parking, Barth Eide answers in an SMS to Nettavisen.
Barth Eide, who is the climate policy spokesperson in the Labor Party, believes this is a matter the municipalities themselves can arrange in a good way.
– This is just a proposal that the municipalities should have the opportunity to do so – ie open to more municipal self-government. Municipalities must be able to assess advantages and disadvantages, so it may be different in different places.
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– Why should not the municipalities themselves be allowed to decide on such? he asks Vedum.
– Vedum is normal for local self-government and that politics must be close to the people.
– Speed blind in the fight against the car
The SP leader answers that precisely parking is a matter of principle where the state must shield the private business sector.
– Taxing parking on private property has been a foreign idea. We have had a tradition of respect for private property in Norway.
– This is an intervention in private freedom. You become speed blind in the fight against the car, he concludes.
It will create a lot of bureaucracy and create insecurity for people. They say that the tick should be there, but that it should be opened for. Private property must be protected
The proposal is one of many in the climate report. The Storting will vote on it on Tuesday.
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