ST. PETE BEACH, Fla. \u2014 It’ll soon cost you more to park in St. Pete Beach as commissioners late Tuesday approved increasing rates to $5\/hour during the week and $6\/hour on weekends, including Friday.<\/p>\n
Rates will go even higher during tourist season from February to April. All told, the city says it’ll raise close to $2 million a year to pay for long-overdue infrastructure maintenance and upgrades. But new mayor Scott Tate says he wants more discussion in the weeks to come on \u201cduration-based\u201d pricing.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow can we investigate a dynamic pricing based on\u2026 duration of time that they’re staying [here,]\u201d he said. \u201cI would like to see us turn those spots over because they\u2019re coming and shopping and eating at our restaurants.\u201d<\/p>\n
It’s the latest in a series of parking price hikes for Pinellas County beaches.<\/p>\n
Just last month, Indian Rocks Beach went up to $4.50\/hour; last year, Treasure Island brought back paid parking at $4\/hour, and county beaches like Fort DeSoto are now a flat fee of $6\/day.<\/p>\n
The flat rate for holidays and special events on St. Pete Beach will nearly double to $40\/day.<\/p>\n
SPB isn\u2019t the only area still considering parking rate increases; Tarpon Springs has also debated charging to park at Sunset Beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETE BEACH, Fla. \u2014 It’ll soon cost you more to park in St. Pete Beach as commissioners…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-205285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}