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The non-profit organization SDC Petite-Italie–Marché Jean-Talon announced a partnership with Montreal-founded CityParking on Wednesday to increase the number of parking spaces available in Little Italy.

The CityParking app allows homeowners to rent out their driveways while they’re at work and enables business owners to offer their parking lots at night once customers and employees have gone home. As part of the partnership, SDC Petite-Italie–Marché Jean-Talon has begun calling and emailing Little Italy residents as well as local commercial property owners, encouraging them to rent out their parking spaces.

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According to Cristina D’Arienzo, the general director of the SDC Petite-Italie–Marché Jean-Talon, while the Jean-Talon market has two parking lots of its own, there is not enough street parking to accommodate the number of people who come by car to shop throughout Little Italy. It’s an issue, she said, that most commercial neighbourhoods in Montreal face.