Tuesday, April 22, 1997
Stamps that void parking tickets going on sale
By ANTHONY WILSON
Staff Writer
Downtown merchants can start stamping out their customers'
parking tickets Wednesday afternoon.
The downtown parking stamp goes on sale at 1 p.m. Wednesday
in the city's finance department on the second floor of City Hall.
Businesses buying the $1 stamp will issue them to customers whose
cars are ticketed as they patronize downtown shops.
The stamp voids the $5 parking fine.
"Every business wants to be more customer friendly,"
Downtown Manager Elizabeth Grindstaff said. "This is an opportunity
to do that. They're only $1 each. Surely a repeat customer is
worth that."
Donna Hitt, building manager for First National Bank, responded,
"Goody!" upon learning the stamps are available. She
often pays parking fines for prospective clients whose cars are
cited while they scout the bank's offices.
"It's a goodwill gesture," she said. "It looks
good for us. We will use (the stamps)."
While the stamp was created to help improve downtown parking,
many of the problems have already been licked by "the boot."
Since the city started immobilizing the cars of habitual parking
offenders, the scofflaws have scurried back to their private lots,
clearing on-street parking.
"It's definitely scared people back to their own spots,"
Hitt noted.
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