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Community Forum on Job Shadowing in
St. Paul High Schools May 17 - 28
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Pamela,
The relevant St. Paul legislative code reads:
"When parking meters have been installed indicating the metered area, no
vehicle other than a commercial vehicle shall remain parked at any time
between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on Monday through Saturday, in
the metered area in any one (1) parking meter space for longer than the
period of time specifically set out for the lawful use of said metered area
for the charge imposed. ..."
The complete text is at:
http://www.ci.stpaul.mn.us/code/lc160.html#sec160.03.
Some of the other subsections are interesting... Maybe they're obvious to
everyone else, but 160.08 and 160.13 never occurred to me.
Jim Ivey
Downtown Saint Paul
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Subject: [StPaul] Parking Meters now enforced on Saturdays in downtown
SaintPaul????!!! What is going on???!!!
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Community Forum on Job Shadowing in
St. Paul High Schools May 17 - 28
http://www.stpauljobshadow.org
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Everyone:
Now I have to admit I rarely visit downtown Saint Paul, particularly on a
weekend. Suffice it to say, that I was more than shocked when I went
downtown and parked on West Seventh with many other unsuspecting souls and
got ticketed for an expired meter.
I went down to the Grand Opening of the Farmers Market, which by the way was
a wonderful experience and is now just a better venue all the way around.
I spoke to the manager of the Farmers Market and asked him when the meter
policy had changed. He wasn't certain, but he DID know that the immediate
streets around the farmers market were still free. I told him that there
was no place to park on the immediate streets and it seemed counter
productive, if the Farmers Market wanted people to come down, to have the
city charge for metered parking on the weekends when that never was the case
before.
How did I miss that this was now the policy?
Does the city really think that this will increase traffic downtown and
boost the retail revenue?
Is this the way they tax for the new improvements made to the Farmers
Market?
What is even more frustrating is that I always carry meter money in the car
with me, should I need it. It just never occurred to me that the meters
were in force.
Again, the Saint Paul crew ruins the experience of the downtown experience!
How can I protest this ticket? I hope my city councilman, Lee Helgen is
lurking along with Dave Thune and everyone else. Is this something you all
voted for? Or is this just something that occurred without your knowledge?
If so, then how was the change communicated to people?
It now just added a tab of $23.00 to my originally conservative Farmers
Market bill. Not to mention the time and parking it will cost me to protest
it.
Pamela Ellison
Como Park
Saint Paul
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