The City of San Luis Obispo made some important changes to downtown parking rates and policies on Tuesday, May 14. Here’s everything you need to know.
The SLO Chamber advocated for several considerations to be adopted by the City throughout this parking process, including:
- prioritizing fixing the user experience overall by adopting one, uniform model in all three (soon to be four) structures
- extending the metered parking maximum from two to three hours
- making the validations process easier to use and accessible to businesses
- making ticketing enforcement a last step and giving a greater grace period to those who used the system
- supported Downtown SLO’s Parking Taskforce’s recommendations on rates both on-street and in the structures
Downtown SLO’s Parking Taskforce took the lead and spent numerous hours researching and working with the downtown community to find the best parking solution for businesses downtown. We’re so appreciative of all the hard work they’ve done. We also want to acknowledge the work put in by the City to collaborate, listen to concerns and engage in data-driven discussions resulting in these positive changes.
Upcoming parking changes that will go into effect on July 8, 2024:
- In-structure parking rates will be reduced from $3 per hour to $2 per hour, resulting in a maximum daily charge of $8 instead of the previous $12 maximum
- On-street parking rates will be reduced
- Downtown core parking will rates decrease from $4 per hour to $2.75 per hour
- Outer perimeter parking rates will decrease from $3 per hour to $2.25 per hour
- Monthly parking structure permit prices will be reduced from $85 per month to $45 per month
- On-street parking time limits will expand from 2 hours to 3 hours in the downtown core
- The price of parking validation will be reduced by half, allowing businesses to purchase 100 one-hour validation tickets for $100
- To allow for the lowest possible parking rates for all users, the first hour free and free Sunday parking in the parking structures will no longer be subsidized.