Parramatta. Car parking costs increase

“Small businesses and ratepayers in Parramatta are already facing a downturn in the economy without the State Government hiking up the cost of parking your car,” said Parramatta Lord Mayor, Tony Issa. He was commenting on the NSW Government’s 50 per cent increase, from $470 to $710, on each of the 9000 non-residential and off-street parking spaces in the Parramatta CBD, from July 1. Cr Issa called for the current parking levy to be spent where it is raised within the Parramatta CBD. With the proposed increase, the NSW Government will be drawing more than $6 million a year from the CBD.