OCEAN CITY – During a budget wrap-up session last Friday, discussion over alternative revenues continued with the City Council voting to install new paid parking downtown and on 49th, 131st and 146th streets as well as increasing the weekend rate for the Inlet Parking Lot.
A couple of weeks ago, City Engineer Terry McGean went through the different areas of town that are potential to install Cale machines, or paid parking, to offer alternative revenues in attempts to close the budget gap.
To develop a clearer picture, McGean returned on Friday breaking down the potential streets to begin paid parking. He began with the west side of Philadelphia Ave. from South 1st Street to North Division St., which totals 55 spaces and $35,000 in estimated new revenue. The east side of Philadelphia Ave. in this area was metered a few years back, but the council at that time decided to leave the west side free for downtown employees.
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How many foreign summer workers have cars and need to park downtown for free?
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ReplyDeleteI liked the phrase "to BEGIN (emphasis mine) paid parking". See the future here yet? Between the guantlet of 15-20 cop agencies between the Bay Bridge and O.C. using every means possible to clean your clock before you even arrive for vacation, the $2000 a week rat traps the slumlords maintain, the $8 milkshakes and $6 slice of pizza, the O.C. cops standing in traffic to peer into incoming cars (for "violations"/money), and the now even more expensive parking, it might be best to go west. At least, in that direction, the police are tall and have (some of 'em anyway) HEARD of the Constitution. I can't guarantee that it means anything to them, but I can guarantee that it DOESN'T in Ocean City.
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