{"id":294402,"date":"2026-05-01T04:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/294402\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T04:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:55:12","slug":"sacramento-proposes-hiking-parking-violation-fees-amid-66m-budget-shortfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/294402\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento proposes hiking parking violation fees amid $66M budget shortfall"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sacramento<\/a>Thu, April 30, 2026 at 11:00 PM UTC\"\"<\/p>\n

A parking enforcement officer issues a warning for a car parked on 24th Street in midtown Sacramento in 2020.<\/p>\n

(Daniel Kim\/Sacramento Bee file)<\/p>\n

Motorists who violate the city of Sacramento\u2019s parking codes could face bigger fines this year.<\/p>\n

Sacramento City Manager Maraskeshia Smith proposed raising parking ticket fees<\/a> in her budget released Wednesday to help stave off a $66.2 budget deficit.<\/a><\/p>\n

For the past two years, the city has raised rates at meter and off-street garages amid fiscal shortfalls. Drivers paid about $17.8 million in parking fees from July 1, 2025, through Dec. 31, 2025 \u2014 an increase of about $2.4 million compared to the same period in 2024 and up $4.8 million from the same time period in 2023, according to The Sacramento Bee\u2019s previous reporting.<\/a><\/p>\n

Now, violators of the city\u2019s parking regulations could face increased fees, some of which were also raised in 2024.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the proposed parking violation fees, compared to the fees in 2024:<\/p>\n

The fee for an expired meter could increase to $80, up from $50.<\/p>\n

The fee for wrongly parking in a designated residential permit area could increase from $60, up from $40.<\/p>\n

The fee for parking in an area during restricted hours could increase to $60, up from $40.<\/p>\n

The fee for parking outside a designated marked parking space could increase to $60, up from $35.<\/p>\n

The fee for parking in a bike lane could increase to $150, up from $50.<\/p>\n

The fee for parking in a passenger loading zone could increase to $70, up from $40.<\/p>\n

The fee for parking in a no parking zone could increase to $70, up from $40.<\/p>\n

Smith has proposed slashing 46 filled positions and 100 vacancies to help balance her proposed $1.7 billion budget. Some programs would also be cut.<\/p>\n

Not every person employed in the 46 filled positions will be laid off \u2014 some people will move to a different job. No police officers or firefighters will receive pink slips.<\/p>\n

The City Council is scheduled to discuss the proposed budget Tuesday. The final budget is scheduled to be adopted June 9.<\/p>\n

The new fees would start after the budget goes into effect on July 1, but only after a warning period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thu, April 30, 2026 at 11:00 PM UTC A parking enforcement officer issues a warning for a car…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[16476,4962,20680,125189,116151,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-294402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-budget-deficit","tag-city-of-sacramento","tag-parking-fees","tag-parking-regulations","tag-parking-ticket","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}