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"Cincinnati's plan to lease parking meters is a done deal, signed Monday by the city manager without fanfare. But, it is not without continuing controversy and efforts to change the terms.The most ardent critics are still trying to stop it altogether, but the most likely outcome now is to massage the enforcement hours that would take effect several months from now.\"My goal all along was to get a better deal,\" said Council member Laure Quinlivan Wednesday morning. \"I am not opposed (to the parking plan) in principal. My goal was to slow it down to get a better deal for the community that works better for us and I feel like I've done that.\"Her expression of satisfaction is based on what the city administration is willing to do in the weeks and months ahead.According to some council members, it has assured them the hours of enforcement can be altered even though the lease agreement has been signed.City Solicitor John Curp has indicated it will take sixty to ninety days for the Port Authority to sell the bonds necessary for the parking plan.During that period of time, the city has the ability to change the hours for meter enforcement.A majority of council is asking for four different scenarios to consider.One of them would be to keep neighborhood business district hours right where they are now. City Manager Milton Dohoney has stated there is $8 million less revenue for every enforcement hour that is rolled back.If the 9 p.m. stopping point is changed to 6 p.m., the parties to the parking agreement would be staring at a revenue reduction of $24 million.Asked if she favors a 6 p.m. enforcement endpoint, Quinlivan told WLWT News 5, \"I think so. I'd like to see what the options are. Let me see what it looks like.\"She expects the city administration to communicate with leaders of various neighborhood business districts to get a sense of what they prefer and what impact their shops and restaurants would experience.During the past few months, community leaders in Clifton, Hyde Park and Mt. Lookout have been particularly vocal about how the parking plan, as currently constructed, would damage their bottom line.For the city, the tradeoff would be less upfront money in exchange for reducing the hours when meters would be ticketed.\"Hopefully it'll end up better for everybody,\" said Quinlivan.A separate motion from Council asks the administration to spell out precisely how the upfront money -- calculated at $92 million -- would be spent.The answers would come in a couple of months during Council's summer recess.By then, the effects of the legal strategy by COAST and others opposed to the entire plan might be known.What is clear is that there does not appear to be enough support on Council to repeal an ordinance it approved earlier this year."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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