Parking meter prices quadruple in Downtown Jacksonville
Digital meter prices spike from $5 a day to $20 a day
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Drivers and residents parking in most on-street parking spots Downtown are noticing a steep increase in parking rates at any of 916 digital parking meters.
What would have cost $5 a day is now going to cost $20 a day. The city told News4Jax the increase is to discourage people from parking all day in spaces intended for use by people making short visits to restaurants, shops and offices.
“It has literally quadrupled,” said Jacksonville resident Michael Holeman.
The meters take coins or credit cards. There’s no app for that.
Special to The Alliance Review
Minerva First Christian Church has celebrated 55 young men as Eagle Scouts over the 83 years it has sponsored a troop.
The year 2021 has been much different.
The church’s Boy Scout Troop 150 this year has celebrated four Eagle Scouts. It is the most to receive the distinction in one year since the troop’s beginnings in 1938.
“This is a remarkable achievement in a normal time, but with a year of COVID restrictions, it lifted the troop to a higher level of difficulty to complete all of the rank requirements and complete the Eagle Scout Service Project,” Scoutmaster Dan Toalston said in a news release.