Tonight, the City of Darebin will consider an updated Parking Permit Policy to go out to community consultation.
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Notably, the policy includes a new ‘User Pays’ Permit, which isn’t subsidised:
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This contrasts with the City of Yarra, which doesn’t use the work ‘subsidy’ or ‘subsidised’ anywhere in its Parking Management Strategy or Parking Permit Policy.
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The draft also notes that pricing is able to help manage the demand for on-street parking:
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If the City of Yarra chose to follow the lead of the City of Darebin (and the City of Merri-bek) and offered User Pays permits, combined with converting all non-permit zones to 1 or 2 hour time limits, then non-resident commuters would contribute to the council budget. If council collected $10 per day from 20,000 out of its 47,000 on-street car parking bays for 250 days each year, that would be an income of $50 million per year. This is not an opportunity that council can afford to ignore.
Published 27th March 2023