{"id":31440,"date":"2025-09-19T12:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/31440\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T12:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:18:12","slug":"tauranga-city-centre-parking-20%e2%80%91minute-free-grace-period-now-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/31440\/","title":{"rendered":"Tauranga city centre parking: 20\u2011minute free grace period now in place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">Te Papa ward councillor Rod Taylor acknowledged that some hospitality and retail businesses in the city centre were doing it tough. <\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe grace period means people can now quickly drop by the city centre for up to 20 minutes without paying \u2013 which is helpful if they\u2019re there to grab a coffee, collect takeaways, or pop into the pharmacy,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">Tauranga Mayor Mah\u00e9 Drysdale said there was no silver bullet to the issues some businesses were facing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe\u2019re listening to people\u2019s concerns and will continue to consider viable and targeted parking options to support the retail and hospitality sector in the city centre and encourage more visitors into the area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">The council said it would also work with businesses and the accessibility community to identify where additional P5 and mobility parks should be located. <\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">City centre loading zones can be used by anyone for quick stops of up to five minutes, helping ensure space is available for high-turnover activities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Te Papa ward councillor Rod Taylor acknowledged that some hospitality and retail businesses in the city centre were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30206,15385,1558,1550,2199,30207,4975,30208,5912,78,111,43,139,425,69,10142,30205,5353,6744,1227,30209],"class_list":["post-31440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-20minute","tag-approved","tag-been","tag-centre","tag-city","tag-counciloperated","tag-free","tag-fringe","tag-grace","tag-in","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-now","tag-nz","tag-paid","tag-parking","tag-period","tag-place","tag-tauranga","tag-zones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}