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Originally Posted by Fuzz
You are suggesting residents be given the opportunity to make money from public property(street parking) that isn't theirs. You don't own or have a right to it, so you have no right to rent it out. Sorry to be so blunt, but this is dumb.
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Something is certainly blunt, or dulled.
I'm suggesting that people who have a residential permit allowing parking in a space or on a street, or ownership of a space in their building or on their lot, be able to rent that space out via an app instead of standing on the side of the road asking for cash.
People already do rent out the use of their permits or the use of their parking spaces in their building or on their lot. It just happens under the table. Integrating activities like this into a digital system could reduce cheating, provide another source of revenue to the city, open more parking availability to the public, and turn untaxed income through renting those spaces into taxable income. Maybe the city would dislike this if they felt the increased supply negatively impacted their ability to generate revenue off of their existing paid parking, but that's another issue.