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CRA staff weigh short free parking and sensor technology to ease downtown turnover
Summary
CRA staff reported more than 553,000 downtown meter transactions last year and proposed a short-duration free option and individual-space sensors to improve turnover; the board asked staff to return with technology options and revenue implications.
Stephen Timberlake, special projects manager for the Boca Raton Community Redevelopment Agency, told the board the CRA’s on-street parking program is metered across the CRA boundary, uses a four-hour standard time limit for most spaces, and logged roughly 553,000 transactions and more than $2,000,000 in revenue in the past year. "The goal of the parking meter program is to maximize parking availability for businesses and visitors and limit long term parkers," Timberlake said.
Timberlake said payments occur at about 100 meters or via the ParkMobile app; ParkMobile users account for nearly 200,000 transactions and about $651,000 in revenue. He reported roughly 20,000 citations issued last year, with about…
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