{"id":428417,"date":"2026-10-15T10:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T10:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/428417\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T10:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T10:32:19","slug":"parking-fees-permits-could-increase-in-st-petersburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/428417\/","title":{"rendered":"Parking fees, permits could increase in St. Petersburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2013 Continuing conversations are scheduled Thursday as city officials debate whether to increase the prices of parking fees and permits. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If approved, the new fines will be double the current ones for overstaying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stpete.org\/residents\/parking___transportation\/where_to_park.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">parking time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Expired meter tickets would rise from $17.50 to $32.50, while most other violations would increase from $30 to $45. Monthly downtown permits would rise to $25 and annual residential permits would double to $30.<\/p>\n<p>In a city council meeting back in September, council member Deborah Figgs-Sanders brought up how parking is a big issue for small businesses in downtown, saying quote &#8220;We are preemptive from preventing this from happening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s city council meeting will start at 1:30 p.m., followed by public comments and a final vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2013 Continuing conversations are scheduled Thursday as city officials debate whether to increase the prices&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[274,558,90888,770,115,596,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,278,729],"class_list":["post-428417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-app-top-stories","tag-business","tag-claire-alfree","tag-community-news","tag-news","tag-pinellas-county","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-top-stories","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428417","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=428417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}