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Commission backs steeper escalations for repeat parking violators and adds higher penalties for safety breaches
Summary
To target repeat offenders and safety violations, the commission voted to recommend ordinance amendments that raise meter escalation steps and add an escalating schedule for other violations (including residential-permit violations), with higher maximums and longer reset periods for repeat offenses.
The Missoula Parking Commission on April 8 advanced a staff recommendation to increase parking-violation penalties for repeat offenders and to add an escalating penalty scale for non-meter violations, including residential-parking and safety breaches.
Parking Services Director Jody Pilgrim told the board the commission’s meter program already uses a warning for first-meter/first-overtime violations (a $0 citation), which works for most users: "Out of our meter violations last year that were issued, 63% of them were first meter violations," Pilgrim said, and only about…
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