Following dueling resolutions, a brief history of the parking meter, and a quick-skim of Robert’s Rules of Order, yesterday City Council voted to expand paid parking hours Downtown, scaling back an broader expansion council OK’d this spring, while slightly increasing the geographic boundaries of the ‘compromise’ expansion.

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This article appears in August 19 • 2011.

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