By Hank Rosenfeld
Regarding the price of parking tickets going up $10. The city is going about this all wrong. They should be lowering the cost of educating the children, not raising the cost for residents trying to park outside our homes, at the same time avoiding vandals, street cleaning truck times and new meters being installed everywhere in the county. The Daily Press reports, “there are more than 50 types of parking violations in Santa Monica.”
Here’s an idea: Make it 51. Ticket every tourist parking west of Centinela who doesn’t pay a homeless person to guard their rent-a-car.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 25, 2003. Read the original PDF.