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Originally Posted by curves2000
From my understanding the city is planning on introducing this style of paid parking privilege for on street parking onto streets that aren't currently in permit parking zones, just the normal 2 hour limit zones until 6 pm etc.
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Residential permit parking is introduced where residents petition for it.
The biggest problem with this change to the parking permit program is blatant misinformation and falsehoods like buddy in Mission having to pay $150/mo. for parking, and spurious rumours like this.
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Some of what is happening is that the city is taking out parking on these streets to introduce bike lanes, than create an already tight parking situation even worse [...]
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Literally the only location this is happening at in the beltline is the north side of 15th. The City will be removing the bike lane on 14th in the process.
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[...] and now want's to introduce fairly high fee's for the right to park in your area.
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No no no no no no no, a thousand times: NO. You're not paying for the right to park in your area,
you're paying to exclude everyone else from parking in your area.
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I think a lot of people would be upset if their costs rose significantly and are getting very little in return for it.
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This is a false premise. There was always a cost to this. The only thing that has changed is that the cost used to be borne by all of us, and now the <1% of us who benefit from this program have to pay for the privilege. They get a lot in return for it, they get exclusionary street parking! The problem is that they've been accustomed to getting something for nothing, while you and I and everyone else in this city have been paying for parking zones that we're explicitly not allowed to use.