Does anyone else have to pay a "city sticker" vehicle fee?

[tcfrogs]

I've lived in Chicago for seven years, and before that, Iowa & Texas. Never heard of having to pay a "city" vehicle registration fee before moving here.

State license fees, fine.

Just got the renewal today - $75!!!! For a car that I almost never park on a city street in Chicago!!!!

Just venting, but curious if other cities have the same city sticker things....

[flamingyouth]

1. We have to pay a residential parking zone fee in our neighborhood

It keeps the UW students and their football fans from parking all over our neighborhood.

[Book Lover]

2. San Francisco does

I myself live in a small town just down the coast, and we sure dont, but I know SF does. I've been ticketed (under $30) for being parked too long w/o a sticker in a residential neighborhood a few times...

[iconoclastic cat]

3. Hey, neighbor! I know what you mean.

We pay more fees than anyone, I'm betting. Plus, we have ticket-happy cops, stealth street sweeping, snow routes in spring, etc. I blows!

Hey, did you go to the Kerry thing at Goose Island a couple of weeks ago? I was too busy.

[tcfrogs]

13. Yes - too many fees

If you don't chose to buy the stupid sticker, and you get a ticket, it's $75, the price of the damn sticker!

No, didn't make the Kerry event. I need to follow those things a little more closely, although I kind of doubt he'll be around Chicago much.

[2Design]

4. Yes in Va Beach $25 but no longer sticker just the fee

Yeah, we had some guy run for government position based on getting rid of the sticker....so they did....but keep the fee....

Just another way of your taxes going up so * can say he cut taxes.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

5. $8 here in Cambridge-but what we pay in Car Insurance and Excise Tax

would make you flip out.

[Xandor]

6. Yup. In Virginia...

There is local car registration (city or county, depending on where you live), along with a hefty payment commonly called the "car tax" (aka personal property tax). VERY steep fee in Northern Virginia where I live -- several hundred $$'s per car, if it's a newer model.

[MikeG]

7. I pay $14. to park all day in Pittsburgh.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

8. There has always been a fee for a city sticker in Chicago.

The last one I bought in 1985 was $60.00, I think. We moved out to the burbs in 1986 and were delighted to pay only $25.00 in Chicago Ridge and the same amount when we moved to Oak Lawn.

You should realize that someone has to pay for all those great services you receive in the City. (sarcasm)...

[TexasMexican]

9. Nope, no fee in Corpus Christi, Tx.

[XNASA]

10. Of course. But that's because I'm also a Chicagolander.

You forgot to mention that one cool thing about it is that you can tell what town somebody is from by looking at the sticker in their front window.

[Tom Kitten]

11. $32 a year

so I can park in front of my house...of course I live just two blocks beyond parking meter land near Portland State University. It used to be $15 a year until last year. Violations are $40 a pop. A week or so after I got the new sticker, it rained a lot and inside condensation (yeah my car has a leak, it's a Celica!) caused my sticker to lose its adhesiveness and it fell off. Even though I've lived here for 5 years the parking patrol person gave me a ticket, even though if he looked in the rear window (it's a fastback model) he would have seen the permit laying there...That was last October, I asked for a court hearing, finally yesterday I got notification my hearing is going to be on July 15th...Of course I had to pay the full amount last fall; while I understand why they have the permit system in effect I don't understand the nine month delay...
What's ironic is there is no need for a permit to park on my street after 6pm and on weekends, just working hours during the week (I got my ticket when I went home for lunch, I drove around for twenty minutes looking for the patrol person, couldn't find him)...I'm at work during the weekday work hours, and sometimes at night and on weekends I still cannot find a place to park close by! (I live near a fraternity and sorority, lots of socials, lots of guests)...But it's hard to fight City Hall here, it's a Byzantine process here...Wealth and Time help, but I have neither.

[Zomby Woof]

12. not in over 16 years

When I left Virginia Beach, I had a clean windshield for the first time. Used to have both a city sticker AND a state inspection sticker smack on the bottom-center of the windshield. The irony is VA beach is freeperville where they are supposed to loathe big gummint. Moved to more liberal climes... no stickers.

[nemo137]

14. Must be an Illinois thing

We have them up here in Rockford, too.