Parking in Munich should become considerably more expensive: craftsmen and sales representatives will then have to pay 720 instead of 265 euros a year in order to receive a parking permit for parking license areas. For freelancers and commercial residents, the fee should even increase from 120 to 720 euros. The district administration department, which grants a total of around 27,500 exemptions annually, is expecting additional income of 14.5 million euros annually. In addition, the mobility department wants to raise the parking fees in the parking license areas for those who do not have a parking permit for residents from one euro to 1.90 euros per hour and the daily fee from six to eleven euros. The city council is due to decide on a proposal for a resolution in the first quarter. The approval of the green-red majority of the town hall is considered certain.
“Raising parking fees is not an easy step and also not an end in itself. We therefore want to use the income from the increase to improve the services offered by the MVG,” said City Councilor Nikolaus Gradl (SPD / Volt). “After many decades in which the individual car was massively preferred in terms of space allocation and also financially, we now need a real rethink,” said Gudrun Lux (Green / Pink List) on Twitter for understanding. “There are many small steps to be taken for this. This is one of them.” Public space is scarce and valuable, and you don’t want to squander it for a few cents a day.
The city no longer wants the upper limits to be dictated by the Free State
Gradl emphasized that there will be “reductions for midwives, social services and electric cars”. It was important for the town hall SPD to exempt social services and midwives from the increase in parking permit fees; they should continue to pay only 30 euros per year, Gradl emphasized on Twitter. Gudrun Lux also pointed out that tradespeople can claim the fee as operating costs for tax purposes.
The parking fee of 2.50 euros per hour in the old town and the fee for resident ID cards in licensed areas of 30 euros per year, however, cannot be changed for the time being. But the city has long been asking the Free State to lift the upper limit for parking fees and to allow the city to set the fees for residents’ parking permits, which previously cost 30 euros. This has almost reached the set limit of a maximum of 30.70 euros. The same applies to parking fees: according to the mobility department, the upper limit in Bavaria has been 50 cents for every half hour or part thereof. In areas with particular parking pressure, a maximum of 1.30 euros per half hour is possible. In other federal states such as Baden-Württemberg there is no such upper limit.
“A decoupling of parking fees from the development of mobility costs has greatly reduced the effectiveness of parking fees over the years,” criticized the mobility department. The fee in the old town has been 2.50 euros per hour for more than 20 years, while the price for a single MVV ticket has increased by around 50 percent.
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