Downtown Ventura, CA – from the Mission to Palm Street,  as Mayor Bill Fulton’s Blog states, 62 pay stations are to be installed as part of a system of paid parking. The system gives you the option of  ”tracking”  your car via cash or card – the cost of which is based on current demand. Essentially, you park the car, crack the wallet, break out the cash or card, and go about enjoying your convenient access to downtown Ventura’s shops and businesses. The price will be decided by the computer you give the money to. As reported by the VC Star, the system will be turned on from 10a.m. to 10p.m. starting Sunday through Thursday and from 10a.m. to midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. As Palm, Oak, California, Chestnut, Fir and Ash branch out further from Main Street, parking will be initially free, with charges being added the longer you park. Residential zones further east and Poli above Main will also be subject to parking licenses that will cost between $10 and $20, which, as one Ventura Star user “lag factor” put it: “sounds like LA or hollywood, which Ventura is definitely not.”

Ventura City Council (Monahan and Andrews dissenting, per ritual) passed the $800,000 plus purchase of the system on Monday as part of “procedure.” As Mayor Fulton puts it: “The online responses were not universally negative…”, which means the online responses were largely negative. The system was voted in on the City Council’s “consent agenda.” Which means that the concerns regarding free-parking overflow, extinction of the “stop-on-the-way-to-work,” and thrifty shoppers parking in thrifty spaces, will all be answered after the system is installed. Fullerton projects the project will be paid off in four years.

An extrapolation has been made based on the “Downtown Parking Management Plan” which was provided by Mayor Fulton. to clarify using satellite imagery from Google Earth, Luke Madrid illustrated where approximately paid parking would be instituted.

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