PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Downtown Portland is pressing pause on late-night parking fees just a month after the Mayor used executive authority to roll them out. But the city had already spent money updating signs—and we wanted to know exactly how much.

To roll out the extended pay-to-park hours quickly, PBOT placed stickers on existing parking signs instead of replacing them and updated the Parking Kitty app and meters to match.

The bureau also sent postcards to nearby addresses and issued press releases to thousands of subscribers.

Now, PBOT said it is updating the software again to reverse the change downtown and in the Central Eastside by Oct. 15.

The rollout—covering stickers, labor, and notifications—cost about $100,000.

“The revenue from demand for on-street parking at night in Po

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