Downtown East Lansing’s parking fares increased by five cents today to 70 cents per half hour in five attended garages and 75 cents per half hour in both attended lots.
The five garage locations are Bailey Street, Division Street, Charles Street, Grove Street and The Marriott Hotel. The two lots are the Albert Avenue lot and the Bailey Street lot.
The increase is due to the East Lansing Parking Department receiving a reduced allocation of ticket revenue from the city’s General Fund and an increased purchases of supplies, services and maintenance, East Lansing parking administrator Caleb Sharrow said.
Sharrow said the increased fares “will help to cover facility maintenance and improvement costs, such as the new elevators in [the] Grove Street and Division Street garages and to complete the LED lighting projects in the Division Street and Charles Street garages.”
East Lansing parking meters and pay stations will remain at the price of 75 cents per half hour.
Director of MSU parking operations Lynnette Forman said on-campus parking fares will not increase. Campus meters, including those in garages, are $1.80 per hour and parking lots are $0.80 per half hour.
Forman said MSU parking lot fares have not increased since 2002 and meter prices last increased in 2013 from $1.50 to the current $1.80 per hour.
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