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Darren Leva <
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Subject:Against Free Parking
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City Council,
Please stop this free parking nonsense. With a city our size with high amounts of tourists and visitors, there should not
be free parking. This is a major impact to the budget and should be studied appropropriate, plus the parking fees are
very low as is. Everyone that is for free parking is either used to it from days of old or entitled. I highly doubt this impacts
businesses. People love coming to close and visiting and there is a cost to park in downtown, just like everywhere else. A
compromise is to allow locals one free hour and visitors have to pay, but then again, locals should be riding their bikes,
taking public transportation or parking in free areas and walking in.
We can do a lot with an extra $1.4M to impact our community. Also, isn't this out of line with our carbon goals as a city?
Thanks,
Darren
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