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Los Angeles residents criticize the City Council’s parking meter rate increases, calling them regressive taxes that barely address the city’s $1-billion deficit.
Readers lament the end of free Sunday parking, once a “remnant of an easier-going Los Angeles” now sacrificed for $14.4 million in revenue.
To the editor : Thank you, City Council, for taking more of my money ( “Parking will soon cost more in Los Angeles. Here’s what you need to know,” Oct. 6)! I can’t wait to see what you put it toward next.
I’m sure the city is raising meter rates because it plans on providing my fellow Angelenos and me with better and more plentiful services, and not because it’s trying to dig its