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LADOT proposes lowering some parking fines, new universal payment plan and mobile app; committee holds item for more review
Summary
LA Department of Transportation presented a fine-optimization study recommending reductions for quality-of-life parking citations affecting disadvantaged areas, identified increases for other violations that could yield $6.9 million over five years, and proposed a universal payment plan and a mobile payment app; the committee held the item for further intercommittee review and questions about enforcement and methodology.
Ken Husting, acting assistant general manager for the Los Angeles Department of Transportation’s Office of Mobility Services, presented a fine-optimization study that evaluated parking citations issued between Jan. 1, 2022, and Dec. 31, 2023, and overlaid citation locations and registered-owner ZIP codes with census median household income.
Husting said the study identified opportunities to reduce fines for 23 violation codes — primarily quality-of-life citations such as overnight parking without registration and vehicle-for-sale signs — because those citations were disproportionately issued in disadvantaged areas. The study…
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