As a longtime downtown businessperson since the 1970s, it has been thoroughly discouraging to hear deserved complaints about the parking rules put in place since August 2021. Does everyone know that you can be ticketed up to 9 p.m., seven days a week? Numerous patrons have complained that the pay kiosks are hard to understand and inconvenient, not to mention they only have a two-hour limit. Comments such as “the city sure is greedy” or worse, “we’re no longer coming downtown anymore,” seem indicative that these rules make access to downtown SLO anything but user friendly. At the very least, return to ticketing until 6 p.m.
Jim Dee
San Luis Obispo
This article appears in Jun 2-12, 2022.
Greed, driven by stupidity, hammers one more nail into SLO’s economic coffin
Say “Good Bye, Downtown SLO!”
Me: “Good Bye, Downtown SLO!”
Well, city council has to justify their salaries somehow…
They allow the parklets, which immediately removed at least a 3rd of downtown parking (and I lost count of how many handicapped parking slots), and don’t get me started on the stupidity of parklets on Chorro St. then complain that downtown parking revenue has fallen. The ONLY reason I bother to park in the Chinatown parking structure, is when I report for Jury selection and get comped.