HomeMy WebLinkAbout6/7/2022 Item 6a, Fountain
Delgado, Adriana
Matt Fountain <fountainm90@gmail.com>
Sent:Tuesday, June 7,
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Subject:6/7 Council Agenda Item 6a (3-5)
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Honorable Members of the Council,
Please reconsider staff recommendations for increasing parking rates and fees. Like so many others in the community, I
firmly agree that doubling these costs will have an overwhelmingly negative impact on locals who frequent downtown
businesses and try to keep it a vibrant business community. It will further hurt employees of those businesses who have
no other option than to park downtown, myself included. While other costs of living have risen at a slow but steady
pace, the doubling of parking and fines costs will be a massive immediate hit. I agree with the SLO Tribune's recent
editorial and urge the council to find alternative funding sources for the cultural hub (all of downtown is the city's
cultural hub, after all) or significantly reduce the proposed increase in parking costs. City residents' patience for these
increases to fund culturally important but non-essential projects wore thin long ago, and this proposed increase to
parking costs may be a last straw for many.
Thank you for your time,
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Matt Fountain
(760) 445-9359
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