“You don’t make such change to our parks without consulting our public.” He said parking rates of $2.25 per day or $20 per season will climb to “punitive” rates of $7 a day and $60 a season by 2023 under the system presented to the committee. Screech said the current rates are affordable. “And possibly I can get behind that sort of an amount, but when you look at $7, in two years, for a family to go to Thetis or any number of the parks for $60 a season, that’s a whole different amount,” he said. “For low-income families, it’s a huge amount of money.”