It will cost you as much as a Capitol Hill slice of pizza to park in the Pike/Pine nightlife district.
The city made its regular update to paid parking rates across Seattle this week with a few adjustments up and down in select neighborhoods including a few changes on Capitol Hill.
A notable upward revision was made for evening rates in Pike/Pine where officials have found no level so far that will sate a driver’s appetite.
Parking near the areas restaurants, bars, and nightclubs will now cost $8/hour, pushing the highest rate in the city up yet another notch.
While the mayor-elect campaigned on issues around affordability — and $8 pizza slices on Capitol Hill — it seems unlikely Katie Wilson will intervene at the meter. Her platform is focused on making it easier to bus and take light rail to the neighborhood, however.
The city’s latest rate changes went into effect Monday.
Learn more at seattle.gov.
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good. I need parking in Cap Hill like once a year but there’s never any available. this is supply and demand working as intended. supply is fixed so we have to figure out a way to reduce demand by increasing the price. I ride my bike or take the bus by default so this is a welcome change
No its not. Supply is artificially removed by the City, creating a government control of sorts. Using Uber, bikes and buses every day is not practical for everyone who needs a car, and with Uber, hardly affordable.
I have no idea what your argument even is.
Try a re-read.
Dan is counter-arguing against Brandon’s observation that “this is supply and demand working as intended.”
Dan believes instead, that the parking situation and price increase represents “a government control of sorts,” claiming that the supply has been artificially removed from the formula instead of being “fixed,” as Brandon claims.
The second part: Brandon welcomes a bus or bike ride while Dan says that’s not “practical” as an everyday choice of transportation. Additionally, Uber is not affordable for “everyone.”
Agreed with Dan. The loss of parking really was truly an unfortunate side-effect when the Harrell administration courageously built pedestrianized superblocks all over Pike/Pine, and then removed hundreds of spaces to build protected bike & micromobility lanes all over the neighborhood. But the neighborhood is so much more livable now.
Oh wait, that was Mayor Hidalgo in Paris.
Yeah, I have no idea what you’re saying, either.
“supply is artificially removed by the city” — the city is providing some parking spaces (by reserving public property for parking).
It’s true that the city is reserving slightly less public space for parking than it used to. Landowners are free to use their own property to provide parking, and the city isn’t restricting that whatsoever. (The city used to artificially require private landowners provide parking, and it’s doing that less than it used to. That’s still not “artificially removing parking”.)
Good!
Tax the hell out of the wealthy landowners with vacant buildings. You cannot just take over air in our city without paying the piper!
They already tax the hell out of them…Look at property tax. My house tax has quadrupled in 20 years. If you want more housing, you need to make it profitable for landlords or have the city do it. But look at the experiment from a few years ago. According to KOMO, the City spend over $1billion in 11 years on housing and look where we are. If we now have over 17,000 homeless, well, you do the math.
Your tax increase is mostly tied to the value which has skyrocketed. Everything is more expensive. So we have to pay more.
This notion that the socialists are stealing from you shows your character and how you feel about your civic duty.
Unless you are Amazon, then your rates go down.
Amazon is a very profitable company. They should be able to pay a little more in tax so Seattle residents can pay less.
Amazon headquarters downtown Seattle gives away FREE Bananas @ Airstream in the daytime. And FREE
parking after hours & weekends in the underground parking garage!
How generous of them! They should still be able to pay a little more in tax, but these gifts should not go unnoticed.
Okay…that’s true…lol
If you live in your house, you seem to have missed a key point of the prior post. Landlords of any sort maintaining vacant buildings and properties will not help housing.
And turn off Sinclair news. It’s right wing talking points.
Does anyone here know how many viewers watch the local TV newscasts on a regular basis? Or, at the very least, how the stations rank in terms of viewership (first, second, third, fourth)?
how much has the value increased over 20 years?
Tax rates have actually gone down over the last couple decades. You are paying more because the assessed values skyrocketed and your house is far more valuable than when you bought it – not because the city invented huge new taxes.
That $1 billion figure is not just housing – it includes shelters, services, temporary housing rent assistance, and inflation. And the regional count includes shelters and transitional housing, not just people on the street. During that last 11 years rents have grown 80-120%. If you want more housing, you don’t cut taxes – you increase supply. Either the private market builds more or the public sector builds more. Pretending taxes caused homelessness is a narrative, not fact.
Are your property taxes too high? Take a lesson from Amazon, they have had the city reduce their property taxes by more than half.
$230m buildings written down to $30m, cheap power for their campus mini-data-centers and water so cheap you would think it came from the sky!
Wilson has yet to take office and Capitol Hill is already getting more expensive…seems like an omen of things to come.
Stick to Tacoma
Private lots are $25 or more, there is no reason why street parking should be less then what the lots are charging. On street parking should be 20% or more then the cost to park in a garage.
Why does the city need to provide limited convenient parking at below market rates?
Higher parking rates would equal less cars on the street, which results in safer streets. Reducing street parking at night is a win.
Are the parking lots $25 per hour? That is more than I have ever paid to park my car in Seattle. I think $8 per hour for street parking is pretty high and will discourage car users from parking on the street.
It won’t if the private lots are $25 an hour as claimed. $8 an hour will seem like a bargain.
$25 comes from the price on the event/night parking I saw at the Diamond lot while walking home that day. The hourly for parking at night in the area “pictured in photo” would easily add up to more than $25 most evening/days in that area.
The $25 is probably a low ball estimate.
The Diamond lots pay people at night to watch the lot for the non-payers, their employees swoop in and slap tickets on any car left without payment. Street parking? The city is not that diligent.
$25 ???
Where?
There are drug zombies and dealers walking around at all times. The infrastructure is crumbling. Literally crumbling.
Empty store fronts. The good Businesses and restaurants are all gone and won’t come.
Parking is not an issue. You people have your priorities backwards. Seattle is losing. And you people vote in another liberal without questioning why your last liberals didnt do anything good
you think Bruce was a lib?…lol
20% more than $25 is $30.
$25 an hour for parking is horrendous enough!
$30 an hour for parking is complete and total insanity!
If street parking were made to be that expensive, it would indeed reduce the number of cars on the streets. It would do that because ordinary people wouldn’t be able to afford to even consider going to any businesses located on streets that have such high parking rates. Those businesses would, therefore, have fewer customers, and some might even be forced to close.
the number of ways this comment is wrong… incredible
Yep! She has no plan…grabbing my popcorn…
She didn’t address parking rates during the campaign, did she?
I look forward to seeing what her plan is when she and her team eventually have to make one.
An omen of things to come for big businesses who can afford it, perhaps. Hopefully not an omen of things to come for ordinary Seattle residents who can’t.
Tbh I feel like the rates are high enough, what’s needed now is enforcement. Doesn’t matter what the rate is if people aren’t ticketed when they don’t pay it and cars sit in valuable spaces for hours or days.
More parking tickets would go a long way to solving this problem. Plus more people being able to park will be good for the businesses!
I agree. I don’t like getting tickets but when it happens… fair play. Get them meter maids and masters on the streets and make some money.
They have meter maids everywhere.
Not only should more parking tickets be issued, but those tickets should be expensive enough to get the point across that parking in a space for a longer period than you paid for is unacceptable. The higher the parking rate is, the higher the fine should be.
Seattle is spiraling. They vote liberal after liberal thinking a new liberal will fix things. Absolute low iq voters
lol…Red states…How are they doing? Top 10 crime states are red states. Red states depend on OUR tax money to balance budgets.
Who’s really low IQ?
“Top 10 crime states are red states”
Name them. I dare you.
you asked for it…Nitwit…shoulda just shut it.
Anything else I can provide you? You not smart enough to simply research before looking like a fool?
Those are all indeed red states, and all but one of them sadly come as no surprise. Montana is the one that sticks out to me. How do they have more crime than we do? They only have 1/8th of the population that Washington has.
The other thing that sticks out to me is that Louisana and Mississippi aren’t on this list. Perhaps they’ve improved their crime situations?
Wow, math. If you go by total crime not considering population that is a very dumb statistic and pretty much meaningless. You reults no matter what you are trying to measure(abortions, birthrate, poverty, dui’s…) would pretty much just poory measure the population.
Probably 1 out of 4 cars in Seattle has expired tags and there’s zero enforcement. So just take the money you’d use to renew tags and use it for parking instead!
1 outta 4 eh? That’s some crap pulled outta someone’s ass.
Expired tags are illegal. Enforcement of expired tags should be increased if the number of them is anywhere near as high you say it is (and I don’t doubt that it may be that high in some parts of the city).
Get rid of diamond parking they only take. No security the parking lots are never taking care of. They don’t contribute to the city. At least they could contribute to making roads and sidewalks better for their crazy prices.
Sounds like Diamond Parking needs some competition!
I’m curious about the decision to use a picture of Katie Wilson who doesn’t have anything to do with the current state of parking (as she isn’t in office yet). An attempt to link “high prices” with Katie in the reader’s mind?
Hey Neil — Maybe you missed this part. Thanks for reading!