![]() ![]() ![]() “The idea of spending more and getting the same doesn’t appeal to me, but at the same time, I understand that sometimes in order to have new things it costs money,” said Fleischer. The plan suggests increasing the hourly rate from $1.00 to $1.50. It’s also proposed to use Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) enforcement, which uses cameras to capture digital images of license plates, then a computer to convert plate images into alphanumeric characters. McCormack said it would also accept payment on an app or cash. It consists of replacing single-space meters with multi-space credit card-enabled kiosks. Phase 1 would start with downtown, Ohio City, Detroit Shoreway and University Circle and then the rest of the city. Now that he has it, McCormack has asked other council members for a meeting to discuss the proposal. At first, they refused to give it to me, so we had our attorneys on council threaten a lawsuit to get me the plan,” he said. “I actually had to submit a public records request into the city to get the plan. But McCormack said he had to threaten legal action for Mayor Frank Jackson’s administration to release the findings from the consultant. The city paid Desman Design Management in 2019 to create a plan regarding the modernization of street parking. “The city commissioned a study to understand how to update our parking system, quite frankly, they’ve sat on that study for a couple of years now.” “I’ve been pounding the table about this, about how to update the system,” said McCormack. He said as the representative of downtown Cleveland, he knows it affects the business owners and that is why he has pushed for changing the parking system. "It was needed 15 years ago, quite frankly." “I cannot tell you how many people I talk to, whether they’re residents or visitors to downtown Cleveland, or other areas of the city, that find it laughable that we can only pay parking meters with quarters and the issue is a lot of people don’t have quarters, anymore,” he said. Ward 3 councilmember Kerry McCormack said he’s gotten calls about the outdated parking system for years. I think they’re inconvenient in the sense that I don’t carry change a lot with me,” he said. “I think it’s necessary to maintain parking but it is a bit antiquated, to a degree. He said the parking meters that only take change as payment are, rather, inconvenient. Joshua Fleischer lives in Avon but often comes downtown for Indians games. ![]() “The parking situation downtown has always been kind of finicky,” said Karrington Wimbish, who works downtown. There is a Safety Committee Meeting on Wednesday where details of the Cleveland Police policing plan for the rest of the summer are expected to be announced.CLEVELAND - Whether you come downtown to live, to work or to play, there’s one thing most in Cleveland can agree on: parking can pose a bit of a predicament. So, this whole thing that is being said that there’s no correlation between the number of police officers working the street and deployed doesn’t have any impact on crime, who came up with that crap?” said Polensek. “As the number of police officers dropped, the violence went up. He said Cleveland Police staffing levels are what they were in 1923. Polensek asked federal law enforcement and Ohio State Highway Patrol for help. “The level of violence that we’ve seen in the city is unprecedented." “Parents have to be held accountable,” said Mike Polensek, Chair of the Cleveland City Council's Safety Committee. Having 12 or 13 or 14-year-olds out at one o’clock in the morning is unacceptable, and it violates the law,” said O’Malley. “It’s going to take parents making sure their children are home when curfew hits. There is now a growing chorus of voices calling for parents to know where their children are and what they’re doing. ![]()
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