CITY COUNCIL – Carshare potential to be examined for non-owners of vehicles

City staff will look into the possibility of establishing carshare services in Kamloops after council approved a motion from Coun. Nancy Bepple Tuesday (March 24, 2026).

Bepple’s motion, submitted on notice at the last council meeting, aims in part at creating criteria for reducing off-street parking requirements in multi-family developments that provide access to carshare vehicles.

She also wants to provide free on-street parking for carshare vehicles and designate carshare spaces in public lots and curbside areas.

“Car share is one way to make Kamloops a more livable space,” Bepple told the council, explaining that the difference between rideshare, such as Uber, and carshare is that with carshare, people drive themselves.

She said she knows people who don’t own a car but sometimes need one for longer periods of time than is available through rideshare.