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Speaker 1: Residential parking permits are going up two hundred percent, up

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Speaker 1: from twenty five dollars annually to seventy five. That's the

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Speaker 1: result of a city council seven to two vote approving

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Speaker 1: the new policy. Advocates for the increased state it's necessary

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Speaker 1: so the permitting program can pay for itself. Still, these

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Speaker 1: folks who say they rely on their car don't like it.

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Speaker 2: I think it's I don't think it's right. Yeah, when

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Speaker 2: I was younger and I didn't have children, I had

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Speaker 2: to transport to sports games and stuff like that, I

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Speaker 2: didn't need a car. But I feel like it's a

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Speaker 2: little intolerant.

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Speaker 1: At recent council meetings, many were against the policy change

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Speaker 1: that removes the senior citizen exemption. Now only those who

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Speaker 1: are considered low income or on welfare programs are exempt,

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Speaker 1: as well as those who say the higher cost would

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Speaker 1: be a hardship. The policy now goes back to the

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Speaker 1: city manager for review. In Cambridge. James Rojas WBZ, Boston

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Speaker 1: Snooze Radio