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City staff recommend shift to app‑based parking system, fewer kiosks to cut maintenance
Summary
The city’s parking sergeant recommended transitioning downtown on‑street parking to the Pango app, removing most meters and kiosks to reduce maintenance costs and staff time; councilors raised accessibility and signage concerns.
Sergeant Gilpin presented a review of Auburn’s parking program on April 10 and recommended moving most on‑street parking to an app‑based payment system (Pango), keeping only four kiosks in the larger off‑street lots. The change, the sergeant said, would cut equipment, modem and maintenance costs and free staff time for enforcement.
Why it matters: City staff said 20 of the 26 kiosks are more than 10 years old and increasingly unreliable; meters and kiosk parts are difficult to source and costly to repair.…
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