Handmade signs affixed to trees between Milvia and Bonita on December 20th warned of the risk of being ticketed. Photo: D.H. Parks By Linda Hemmila If you’ve received a parking ticket near Trader Joe’s on University Avenue in Berkeley, you’re in good company. So many people have been ticketed there over the past year and […]
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Call for alerts (and fewer tickets) on street sweeping
Neighborly reminder of street sweeping at Hearst and Milvia put up in April last year. Photo: D.H. Parks If you own a car in Berkeley there’s a high chance you will have experienced the frustration of being ticketed, or even towed, for being parked in the wrong place at the wrong time on a street-sweeping […]
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Has the Edible Schoolyard been in a rap song before?
Look what the dueling Whole Foods parking lot videos has spawned. The original, by Berkeley-raised David Wittman, aka DJDave (now in LA), inspired local LaeCharles’ Berkeley remix. (It also prompted Berkeley-born Delia Brown to make “Revenge of the Black Prius“). Now, in fine style, DJDave has come back with DJDave, U Not BERKELEY Enough, featuring LaeCharles. […]
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City votes to raise parking fees in downtown zone
Around 750 spaces in a "premium" parking zone in Downtown will cost $1.75/hour rather than $1.50/hour. Photo: Tracey Taylor Berkeley City Council Tuesday voted to raise hourly parking rates by 25 cents to $1.75 an hour within a pre-determined “premium” zone in Downtown in order to raise an estimated $125,000. The area where the new […]
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Berkeley parking scofflaws: beware of the the boot
The parking boot may become a common sight on Berkeley streets. Parking scofflaws who have more than five unpaid parking tickets may soon find an unwelcome visitor on their car: a parking boot. The City Council on Tuesday will consider becoming the 14th city in the United States to use these wheel blockers to recoup […]
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Berkeley will lose $52,000 from parking holidays
The city will lose $52,000 in revenue when it gives drivers a parking holiday on Dec. 18 and 24. The city earns about $20,000 each day in parking revenues and garners $12,000 in parking citation revenue each day, according to a report prepared by City Manager Phil Kamlarz. Dec. 24 is a city employee holiday […]
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$3.8 million to plan for smart parking in Berkeley
Finding a parking space, finding quarters to feed the meter, avoiding getting a ticket — these are all part and parcel of the stresses of city life in Berkeley, especially if you visit the most heavily visited business districts regularly. Could the parking system be improved? This is a question Berkeley plans to address now […]
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Berkeley parking fines to increase by $3.00
By Eric Klein The Berkeley City Council voted Tuesday night to raise parking ticket fees across the board by $3.00, laying the blame for the unpopular move at the feet of the state legislature. The increase will take effect on December 7th. Without the $3.00 increase, the city stands to lose more than $1 million […]
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Ban on parking meters might help business
The Vault Cafe in busier days Most of the tables at The Vault, a restaurant at 3250 Adeline Street, were empty Wednesday at lunchtime. A few groups sat scattered around the large dining room that was dominated by a neon “Vault “sign on the wall, but the place was not buzzing. It’s been that way […]
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Parking will be tight at new Trader Joe’s
Trader Joe's on University and Martin Luther King The new Trader Joe’s on University and Martin Luther King will open on June 11, but be prepared to walk rather than drive. The new store only has 48 parking spaces, and the city council, wary of squeezing out spaces used by nearby residents, voted this week […]
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What happened to those parking spaces?
New chain link fence around Berkeley High parking lot Berkeley High teachers who roll into the parking lot next to the football field today are in for a shock: all the parking spaces are gone. District officials set up a new chain link fence this week in the lot, eliminating dozens of spaces that teachers […]
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On the agenda: Berkeley City matters
Decisions, decisions. Highlights from the agenda for tonight’s City Council meeting: Whether to restrict official travel to Arizona and cancel contracts with businesses there in reaction to that state’s recently passed law allowing police to question and detain people they think are in the U.S. illegally. Oakland, Richmond and San Francisco have already have passed measures aimed […]
