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San Mateo County Supervisors considering waiving parking fees for all county park visitors

Original post made on Dec 27, 2021

A proposal to consider waiving parking fees at San Mateo County parks for low-income households has spurred the county to consider getting rid of the fees for everyone, regardless of income.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Monday, December 27, 2021, 10:44 AM

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Posted by TR
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Dec 27, 2021 at 2:26 pm

TR is a registered user.

It is WAY past time to stop these county park entrance (parking) fees. They were imposed during a budget crunch decades ago and keep hanging around. These are PUBLIC parks. We should be funding them with public tax dollars. Period. Not virtue signaling by offering free/discounted access to lower income people. Just make it a public benefit (which they are)


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