Park Omaha plans to upgrade downtown and midtown parking
OMAHA: Infrastructure updates stretching from the Old Market to Blackstone will change the city's parking infrastructure, starting in the next few months: lower initial rates, no more time limits, and changes to parking garages.
Park Omaha says its most notable change is lowering initial street parking meters to $1 for the first two to three hours. The rate will progressively increase the longer a vehicle stays parked, eliminating time restrictions.
Bronin, Hartford city council at odds over downtown parking lot fee hikes
Hartford city councilors on Wednesday advanced a measure that would impose major fee hikes on downtown parking lot operators, despite fervent opposition from major center-city investors, and Mayor Luke Bronin, who called the policy "misguided." Members of a city council subcommittee voted 6-1 -- with Councilor Shirly Surgeon voting against -- to put the measure on the full council's Jan. 25 meeting agenda with a favorable recommendation for passage. But city councilors added the caveat that the higher fees will not kick in until Jan. 1, 2022, rather than immediately.