Earlier this year, with City Council approval, Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb raised street parking rates. It tripled the revenue over the same period a year ago.
Yet, suddenly, Cleveland City Council got cold feet and voted overwhelmingly — and apparently for purely parochial reasons based on constituent complaints — to roll back the increases.
How and why that happened is instructive and exposes a flaw in how Cleveland operates — a flaw that Cleveland and its residents can correct if there’s the will to do so…