{"id":484047,"date":"2026-10-03T16:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T16:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/484047\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T16:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T16:28:13","slug":"san-jose-city-council-increases-garage-parking-rates-but-holds-off-on-meter-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/484047\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose City Council increases garage parking rates, but holds off on meter hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">It took three attempts for the San Jose City Council to reach a compromise Tuesday on contentious parking rate changes, with officials approving higher garage rates and special event fees while putting off plans for downtown meter rate increases and extended evening meter hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The final proposal passed 7-3 \u2014 with Councilmembers Peter Ortiz, Bien Doan and George Casey voting against it \u2014 after the council twice failed to reach a majority on broader changes. The approved plan raises the city garage hourly parking rate from $4 to $5, after the first free 90 minutes. For special events, garage rates will range from $15 to $35. The changes take effect in October.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading for FREE<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">This is NOT a paywall. We just want to make sure you\u2019re a human. Sign in to read this story and receive the weekly regional roundup in your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to manage your account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It took three attempts for the San Jose City Council to reach a compromise Tuesday on contentious parking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2076,5057,4978,2426,88,5500,90,89,881,198,6959,1967],"class_list":["post-484047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-budget","tag-commute","tag-downtown-san-jose","tag-parking","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-city-council","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-spotlight","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-small-businesses","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484047","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=484047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}