West End Legacy Parking Permits quietly phasing out?
It's May, so the west end parking permits are about to expire and I'm renewing mine again. I've lived here for 10+ years and am on the legacy market rate. Below is a list of how much the Legacy permit cost me each year since it was implemented.
May 2026 - $210.00
May 9 2025 - $151.83
May 27 2024 - $132.03
May 10 2023 - $110.03
May 28 2022 - $100.02
May 14 2021 - $90.93
May 18 2020 - $82.67
May 20 2019 - $81.05
May 07 2018 - $79.45
I don't have the "market rate" for each year, but this is the first and last.
May 2026 - $497.93
May 2018 - $360
Apparently inflation has been 24.0% to 31.4% since 2018 but these are the increase % since that time:
Market rate has increased 38.31%
Legacy Rate has increased 164.32%
Aside from the market rate which should be slightly lower, the Legacy rate has some astronomical price increases and it looks like the city is just quietly phasing it out so nobody complains?