WATCH | City board adopts new parking rates, to install electronic pay system

July 18, 2024 at 4:05 a.m.

by David Showers

The city will remove all of its roughly 300 coin-operated meters from downtown. The 1970s-era technology is prone to malfunction and generates revenues that cover only a fraction of parking fund expenses. (The Sentinel-Record/Donald Cross)
The city will remove all of its roughly 300 coin-operated meters from downtown. The 1970s-era technology is prone to malfunction and generates revenues that cover only a fraction of parking fund expenses. (The Sentinel-Record/Donald Cross)

The city said parking studies it has commissioned date to 1971, including one from 2016 that recommended removing upper Central Avenue's on-street parking in favor of expanded sidewalks.

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