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Show SLC Commission Hikes Rate For Parking Meter Salt Lake City Commission this week voted to increase parking meter fees in most of downtown Salt Lake City and the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce immediately im-mediately began legal measures to block the move. The new parking meter ordinance ordi-nance would eliminate penny parking. Some 1700 new meters have been purchased by the city and will be installed immediately. The new meters eliminate the visible time dial and therefore do not show the amount of time left before the meter is in violation. vio-lation. Mayor Adiel F. Stewart said that other commissioners agreed on the increased parking rates. The act was viewed as a means of increasing revenue to meet rising cost of traffic control. But the Chamber of Commerce charged that the move was unfair un-fair to downtown merchants who bear a large share of the eity's tax load. The Chamber noted that no public hearing on the matter was called, Referring to the lack of a public pub-lic hearing City Attorney E. Ray Cnristensen said that under city laws the commission may hold such a hearing but that one is not mandatory. The minimum charge for any parking meter under the new rates will be five cents. The minimum mini-mum charge for an hour's parking park-ing will be ten cents, twice the present fee. Present 12 minute zones will be replaced by 15 minute zones and the cost of parking in such areas will be five cents. Current 36-minute zones will be changed to 30 minute zones with the 5-cent 5-cent charge prevailing. Two-hour zones will remain the same, ten cents. |