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-- Citation Cut Off Times - Citations are sometimes written with only one minute left until free parking. For example, in the Artists Village the meters become free at 8pm. Folks have been written up for tickets at 7:59pm, even on weekdays when the entire street is empty. Part of this is due to the above-mentioned practice of writing tickets while the meter is still blinking green. It also doesn't make sense to force people into parking structures when there are many open spaces at the meters. Why pay 4x the amount needed in a parking structure when plentiful, safe and secure parking is right adjacent to local restaurants, galleries and venues? It doesn't cultivate a desire to come into or even to program events in DTSA. -- Permit Parking outside of the Downtown - Transforming daytime streets surrounding downtown into permit parking zones should be vetted and re -assessed. For example, certain streets in French Park were recently made permit only. There is no active neighborhood association for this area and most of the folks living there are renters. Street parking during the day has never been a problem as there is already midnight parking curfew, so visitors don't compete with locals for overnight parking. During the day the streets of French Park are largely empty but folks can't park there. Where were they supposed to park? The surrounding lots are government lots, not meant for use by the general public and there are no other options for parking. These changes don't make sense. -- Market Rate Parking - Downtown Tustin, Downtown Orange, Downtown Garden Grove, Downtown Irvine, Main Place Mall & South Coast Plaza are all free parking areas. It's understandable that areas around the Civic Center and Courthouse would have higher parking fees during business hours because Santa Ana is a center for county business. It doesn't make sense however to hike up parking in the West End, Artists Village, Calle Cuatro and East End because those areas of commerce are largely empty during the day. -- Alternate Sources of Revenue - Please consider identifying sources of revenue that hold the promise of long time revenue growth. There is a ceiling to how high you can go with raising parking violation revenues, because after a while you will chase away your client base. This is not a sustainable source of revenue. Other sources of income from Hotel Taxes and Tourism Taxes could probably stand to be raised much more over time, especially given the expected increase in hotel development and redesign of existing hotel stock. This concludes our feedback on the parking policies you have up for approval. I hope you all can make some meaningful adjustments that will continue to nurture sustainable growth throughout our beautiful city.