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Boca Raton CRA reviews downtown parking meters, ParkMobile fees and short‑term parking options
Summary
Agency staff reported roughly 553,000 downtown meter transactions and nearly $2 million in revenue over the past year, reviewed citation volumes, and said technology pilots for individual-space occupancy could enable short free parking without undermining turnover.
Steven Timberlake, the Community Redevelopment Agency’s special projects manager, told the board the city’s meter program covers every on‑street space inside the CRA boundary and is enforced 24 hours a day to promote turnover for downtown businesses.
Timberlake said the CRA recorded about 553,000 parking transactions in the past year and described them as follows: roughly 351,000 at meters (reported revenue about $1.5 million) and nearly 200,000 via ParkMobile; he said total revenue across payment methods totaled “almost $2,000,000.” He reported the average paid time was about 2 hours, 7 minutes, with peak average time approaching 2 hours, 18 minutes around 6 p.m. in some areas.
The presentation noted the CRA issued roughly 20,000 parking citations during the year; Timberlake said nearly 16,000 were for…
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