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CELPIP Practice Reading: Reading for Viewpoints ID: #63195 Easy Guest Parking Needs Rules, Not a Paper Book

Read the following editorial from a website.

Visiting a friend in a Toronto-area condo often follows a familiar routine: circle the block, phone upstairs, and hope a visitor stall opens up. Several building boards are now debating whether to make guest permits easier to get or to protect the few overnight stalls for residents. We believe they can do both, but only if the new rules come with firm limits and honest numbers.

The push for change comes from property manager Julia Beaulieu, who wants residents to issue a digital day-pass from their phones in a few minutes. “By Friday the paper book in the lobby is empty, and guests end up idling on the street,” Beaulieu said at a recent owners’ meeting. She reports that lobby complaints dropped during a trial of the phone pass, and she would keep a two-hour limit on daytime visits so that stalls keep turning over. Those results match what our reporters heard in lobbies across the region.

Parveen Sidhu, who chairs the resident board, sees a different danger. She warns that easier passes will take overnight stalls from residents first, and she points out that indoor spots are already full before midnight on weeknights. Her worry is reasonable, and many of our readers in crowded buildings will recognize it. Pablo Novak, a tenant who works evening shifts, says his caregivers and relatives often arrive after the subway stops running, so rigid rules leave them stranded. He likes the digital pass, yet he agrees with Sidhu that guests staying the night should face a stricter limit than daytime callers. Quentin Asante, the board secretary, argues that weekly occupancy figures should be posted, so owners can lower the limits fast if residents begin losing their spots. In our view, those last two ideas are practical rather than political.

Building boards ought to adopt the digital pass, keep Beaulieu’s two-hour daytime cap, set a firm nightly limit as Sidhu asks, and add an evening window for late arrivals like Novak’s visitors. Most important, in our judgment, they must publish Asante’s weekly figures. Rules that owners can see are rules that owners can fix, and we suspect a garage run on posted numbers will earn more trust than one run on a paper book and good luck.

Using the drop-down menu (▾), choose the best option according to the information given on the website.

This editorial is mainly about 1.
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Who most clearly worries that residents will lose overnight stalls? 2.
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Julia Beaulieu’s position would most likely be supported by 3.
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What outcome does Quentin Asante’s condition call for? 4.
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The main purpose of this editorial is to 5.
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The following is a comment by a visitor to the website page. Complete the comment by choosing the best option to fill in each blank.

I manage a sixteen-storey rental tower in Mississauga, and our owners fought about this exact garage problem last spring. One detail in the editorial matched our building perfectly: 6.
. Our night guard could have written that sentence himself. The tenant in the editorial made the point I hear most often from our own renters: 7.
. What finally pushed me to act on the problem at home was Julia Beaulieu’s remark that 8.
, which is the kind of scene our front desk staff describe every week. The editorial also wants boards to keep 9.
, and I would not have thought of that on my own. At our next meeting I intend to repeat the one point the tenant accepts even though it could hurt his own visitors: 10.
. Has any other building tried a phone pass, and how long did it take your residents to trust the numbers?

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