Paid parking revenue is down this year in Sauble Beach.
Chairman of the paid parking committee for the Town of South Bruce Peninsula, Rick Lyttle says bad weather and a change in parking rates are the cause of lower revenues.
Lyttle says because the weather hasn’t been very good people are just coming to the beach for an hour or two then leaving.
At the end of last summer, parking rates in Sauble Beach were changed back to an hourly rate.
Lyttle says last year with the flat rate in effect visitors were paying 10 dollars even if they only stayed for an hour.
This year, along Lakeshore Boulevard you can buy a 1 hour pass for three dollars or a 2 hour pass for six dollars, with the maximum being 15 dollars per day.
If you move back one block to Second Avenue the rates become even lower – two dollars per hour with the maximum of 10 dollars per day.
Lyttle says the number of parking tickets have seen an increase to six thousand from five thousand at the same time last year.
He says with Sauble Sand Fest coming up they should see a boost in revenue.