It's been an ongoing debate: when should downtown street parking be free and when should the City require payment?For a long time, the City has operated meters from 8:30am - 5:30pm Monday - Friday. In March, the City Council voted to extend these hours to midnight downtown. One of the reasons for the change was a theory that downtown service workers were taking all of the evening parking and thus displacing paying customers. In reality, there is a ton of paid parking downtown so nobody is being turned away for a lack of a spot. even when an . . .
