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Seattle adjusting street parking rates and considering high event rates around arena Graham Johnson
In the pandemic, Seattle street parking suddenly got very cheap.
Salvio Varchetta lives downtown, where he pays 50 cents an hour instead of the pre-COVID-19 five bucks.
“What I’m paying right now is good. Right now the fares are really good. When they go back to normal, it’s not good. It’s way too much,” Varchetta said.
Starting June 1, street parking rates will rise in several neighborhoods, but only to a maximum of $2.50 an hour.
“We use the laws of supply and demand to find the right parking rate in order to make sure that people can find one or two open spaces per block in busy neighborhoods,” said Ethan Bergerson of the Seattle Department of Transportation.