Downtown Meters to Public: Feed Us!
Hungry meters demand money from morning until 10 at night.
Like it or not, you’re going to have to pay to stay. Downtown, that is. After six, all the way until 10.. Those pesky extended enforcement hours for parking aren’t going away, officials said during the September board meeting of the Athens Downtown Development Authority. It’s not the extra 25 cents an hour, for more hours, that’s inflaming the customers at Square One Fish Company, said owner Erica Cascio. It’s the fine that comes from not paying. “For every one complaint, 10 people won’t come back,” she said. “We have a PR problem.” Other board members assured her that things will get better, people will realize they need to feed the meter or park in a parking deck. Bill Overend recalled how when free lots downtown became Prestige Parking …
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Rebecca McCarthy
11:20 am on Wednesday, September 14, 2011
And the new deck is going to be way cool. You can park, party and then end the night scattered and smothered at Waffle House, all within the same block! more ›