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• Source: Des Moines Register
• Date: January 14, 2008
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• Bylines: Paula Lavigne
• Topics: Local Government
• Data Types: Local Data
• Description/Excerpt: The number of drivers stuck with parking tickets in Des Moines dropped last year, even as downtown drew more workers, shoppers, residents and visitors. Parking enforcement officers say they're not taking it easier on scofflaws, although the city has employed one fewer meter enforcer in the last six months. Rather, they attribute the drop to higher ticket fines and more parking alternatives. More than 40,000 tickets were issued from January to mid-December 2007 for overtime or related meter violations, according to a Des Moines Register analysis of parking meter ticket data. That was about 9 percent fewer than the number of tickets issued during the same time period the previous year. The drop in tickets issued is close to 13 percent from 2005.
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