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St. Pete Beach affirms commission control of parking fees; staff to draft resolution building on revenue options
Summary
The commission gave final reading to Ordinance 2026‑02, allowing parking fees to be set by resolution. Staff presented multiple revenue options with estimated impacts—raising hourly rates by $0.50 (~+$600,000/year), sunset pricing (~+$257,000), seasonal increases (~+$425,000), holiday/event fees and other enforcement/technology steps—and the commission asked staff to craft a resolution following the Finance & Budget review committee's recommendations and to provide more granular transaction data.
On final reading the Commission approved Ordinance 2026‑02, a code change that makes parking fees administratively settable by commission resolution rather than fixed only in the municipal code. Assistant City Manager Adam Poyer presented a parking revenue package and a set of implementation options and estimates.
Poyer described the work that produced the menu of options — a 2025 parking action plan and historical transaction data (roughly 621,000 transactions in the 12‑month lookback). Individual options included…
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