{"id":41748,"date":"2024-02-07T12:09:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T17:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=41748"},"modified":"2024-02-07T12:09:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T17:09:35","slug":"lakeland-commissioners-are-considering-2-an-hour-for-street-parking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/02\/07\/lakeland-commissioners-are-considering-2-an-hour-for-street-parking\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland Commissioners are considering $2 an hour for street parking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By this summer, Lakeland is expected to eliminate its practice of offering free&nbsp;downtown&nbsp;parking to visit local restaurants and retail. Visitors may be asked to pay up to $2 an hour for the city&#8217;s prime parking spots.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/download-1-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41749\" style=\"width:446px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mayor Bill Mutz almost immediately voiced a bit of a gut-level backlash to the suggested rate increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t feel like I want to charge that, but I&#8217;m sorry about that,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Commissioner Stephanie Madden also expressed a concern. While the city&#8217;s goal is to have quick turnover in on-street parking, there may be a finite amount visitors are willing to pay to visit local businesses that don&#8217;t have dedicated parking spaces for customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By this summer, Lakeland is expected to eliminate its practice of offering free&nbsp;downtown&nbsp;parking to visit local restaurants and retail. Visitors may be asked to pay up to $2 an hour&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[7480],"class_list":["post-41748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-lakeland-commissioners-are-considering-2-an-hour-for-street-parking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}