City Considering Free Parking for Zero Emission Vehicles
Only the more rare white stickers would get the free parking benefit.Some ideas just refuse to die. Less than a year after the City of Los Angeles moved to end it’s free-meter parking for hybrids program, a new proposal to allow only the highest tech and cleanest cars to park for free has resurfaced. The Council resolution asking LADOT to study the program was introduced by Council President Eric Garcetti and sponsored by Downtown Council Woman Eric Garcetti and "Tom LaBonge for Bill Rosendahl." Despite the presence of LaBonge and Rosendahl as sponsors of the legislation, they led Transportation Committee in expressing concerns with the newest free-parking for expensive, high-tech, cars scheme.
Garcetti’s resolution would apply to many less vehicles than the program that was scrapped earlier this year. Instead of all hybrids that qualified for the state’s HOV exemption sticker, only the cleanest cars would qualify. Only electric and zero-emission vehicles would qualify, cars which get a white sticker, pictured above, from the state. While the state no longer hands out the more ubiquitous yellow stickers to fuel-efficient hybrids, it is still handing out the white stickers to those that can afford it.
