COMMENTARY: Don’t be surprised when the public doesn’t like new parking plan

Did Cincinnati residents oppose the now-defunct plan to lease the city’s parking meters because parking rates would go up, hours would expand and enforcement would tighten? Or was it because they didn’t like that Xerox would be writing parking tickets instead of the city? Mayor John Cranley and at least four City Council members – Christopher Smitherman, Charlie Winburn, Kevin Flynn and Vice Mayor David Mann – believe the latter...