SPOKANE, Wash. – Parking in Spokane will cost more starting next month.
Beginning April 1, vehicle owners will pay an additional 12% tax for parking in commercial parking lots in addition to the parking rate.
The city says the tax should encourage more people to use on-street parking.
Revenue from the tax will go toward transportation repairs like fixing sidewalks and streets.
Some residents aren’t happy about the added cost.
“Yeah, I’m tired of it…I’m tired of it man,” said Andrew Willett, a Spokane resident.
“Nobody really wants to pay $25 a park to eat for an hour when they can try to find street parking that’s almost impossible to find,” said Hartman Warrick, another Spokane resident.
Taylor Wallace called it another expense.
“It seems like yet another way the town is trying to take money out of my pocket when I already am giving quite a bit of money back into our Social Security,” Wallace said.
Willett said the city taxes too much.
“They should just stop taxing us so much in general. But really, like the parking lots…like it’s getting to be too much. Like, you might as well start taxing the concrete you walk on every day,” Willett said.
The tax was originally proposed to take effect in January of this year, but when the city council passed it in November they pushed the start date to April 1st.
On Monday, the Spokane city council will consider a vote to approve the commercial tax public rule. One of the amendments would require people to receive a receipt showing exactly how much tax they were charged.
On-street parking is exempt from the tax, along with employee parking, student parking, and disabled parking spaces.
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