Update, May 18: The Berkeley City Council is slated to vote Tuesday on a proposal that would extend parking meter enforcement to include Sundays and evening hours, and install meters on blocks that don’t currently have them.
The package of potential changes also includes hiking the cost of parking tickets — an expired meter citation, which today costs $43, would rise to $64, while leaving your car in a street sweeping zone could land you a $73 ticket, up from $49. And the annual permits residents can buy to be exempt from two-hour time limits in many neighborhoods would also get more expensive. Public works staff have proposed restructuring the flat $85 per vehicle fee to a graduated system where a household’s first permit would cost $100, the second would be $125 and a third would be $150.
City officials estimate the entire slate of changes would raise $4.9 million in net revenue as Berkeley looks to close a nearly $30 million budget deficit…