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San Bruno council orders holiday fix, debates Sundays and kiosk fixes in paid‑parking update
Summary
After a lengthy public outcry about kiosks, enforcement and downtown business impacts, council unanimously adopted a resolution aligning the paid‑parking ordinance with current practice on city holidays and directed staff to study shorter lot intervals, signage and potential Sunday changes while flagging program staffing and fiscal trade‑offs.
San Bruno city staff presented an update on the downtown paid‑parking program and asked the council to adopt a resolution that formally recognizes city holidays as free days within the paid‑parking system.
Police Chief Ryan Johansen, who has overseen the program since launch, told the council the program’s policy is guided by a target occupancy rate of 85 percent — a benchmark staff uses to set rates and evaluate whether the program is meeting its objective of improving parking availability. Johansen said the kiosks’ uptime has improved but that significant operational issues remain, including user friction with the current mobile web interface, kiosk battery/sleep‑mode behavior and some coin‑mechanical failures. He emphasized the program lacks a dedicated non‑police staff resource to manage day‑to‑day operations, data analysis and communications and said staff will…
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