Parking Meters create Poor Publicity and Punctures Profits
By Sharon Simms, St. Petersburg FL - CRS CIPS CLHMS RSPS
(Coastal Properties Group International - Christie's International)
Recently the City of St Petersburg installed parking meters along Beach Drive - ostensibly to prevent employees from taking parking spaces away from customers - but we all know it's to increase revenue to the City. 50 cents an hour, two hour max, with a 2 hour limit. 8 am to 11 pm. 7 days a week! Different blocks have different maximum times and different enforcement hours, but that - which creates lots of confusion - is a topic for another blog! Poor Publicity when visitors to downtown St Pete don't have change.Poor Publicity when someone dines at a local restaurant, and sips an after dinner drink or coffee, only to return to a ticket and fine.Poor Publicity when people come to downtown events like the Saturday Morning Market or today's Taste of Pinellas and come back from a great e...
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