Several parking changes, including fee increases, could soon take effect after the council this week agreed to advance multiple ordinances and resolutions.
On Tuesday, Public Works Director Hal Adkins presented the Ocean City Council with a slew of ordinances and resolutions aimed at paid parking. The proposed changes, he said, were the result of a lengthy work session the council held in December.
“You will recall we were last before you at the December 10, 2024 work session …,” he said. “We are back today to further discuss and hopefully wrap up some of those loose ends as we roll into the paid parking season for 2025.”
One ordinance would allow the Mayor and City Council to enhance penalties for violations on designated special event dates and allow the city’s new parking division to enforce scofflaw penalties. Fines for certain violations, such as parking in a no parking zone, parking at a red curb, and parking on a sidewalk, for example, would double during special event dates, Adkins added.
However, the council agreed that those enhanced fines should also apply to events with a special event zone designation.
“There’s thought behind enacting a special event zone,” Council President Matt James said. “So maybe some of the same concerns would be relevant to parking.”
OC is already dead
No one wants to be around City thugs that roam the streets in OC
OC will one day be a boarded up town like the Wild West towns
Like everything in Ocean City isn’t severely over priced now. People just can’t afford to go there any more.
Has City Hall de-funded their DEI Department yet? How many parking spots could that pay for?