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Parking Enforcement in Ferndale Resumes Today
From now through May 1, enforcement hours will be 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
It's time to start paying for parking again in Ferndale as the city's free parking holiday ends Monday, March 25.
On March 11, Ferndale City Council voted to return parking rates to 50 cents an hour and extend free parking.
City officials used the time to install 12 new pay stations in the most active downtown parking lots as part of an effort to improve the new system before it re-launched.
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From now through May 1, parking enforcement hours will be 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. to give the city time to install new solar-powered lighting around the pay stations. After that, enforcement hours will be 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Earlier this year, the city replaced 900 parking lot quarter meters with 20 new pay stations that accept coins, cash and credit card payments.
Find out what's happening in Ferndalewith free, real-time updates from Patch.
More information on the new parking system, including a map of downtown pay station locations, can be found here. You can find a video of how to use the new pay stations here.
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