Freiburg (dpa/lsw) – After a sensational ruling on resident parking, Freiburg is raising prices again, but remaining well below previous fee levels. From December 1st, a uniform annual fee of 200 euros will be due, as the Black Forest metropolis announced on Tuesday. The annual tariff has been 30 euros since June in a kind of transitional solution.
In June, the federal administrative judges in Leipzig overturned a fee statute with comparatively expensive tariffs. Immediately after the verdict, the Breisgau municipality drastically reduced the price of new parking permits and introduced the 30 euro fee. Previously it was an average of around 360 euros per car. The old regulation was staggered according to the length of the vehicles – sometimes citizens had to pay up to 480 euros a year.
The Leipzig court, among other things, classified various discounts contained in the regulations at the time as inadmissible for social reasons. “Because a social scale is not legally permitted in the regulation, we have set the fee significantly lower than the originally decided average of 360 euros per year,” explained Mayor Martin Horn (independent).
“Everyone who has received a resident parking permit for 30 euros and lasting 12 months in the past few weeks can use it until the deadline expires,” reported the town hall.
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