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Park. Pay. Walk Away? There’s a SJ App For That

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Just when you thought it couldn’t get any easier to park your car in one three key St. Joseph parking lots, it just did. Last week, the city implemented a new enhancement for their Luke II parking meter system installed at Lions Park Beach, Tiscornia Beach, and at the Whirlpool Compass Rose Fountain parking lot across the tracks from Silver Beach Pizza. That new enhancement is a smartphone application or “app,” that allows you to pay directly from your phone without even having to approach one of the meters recently installed.

The city’s Deputy Director of Public Works, Greg Grothous, will provide St. Joseph City Commissioners, staff and citizens will an update tonight on how the new Passport Parking App program works. The app is available from both the App Store and at Google Play online or you can access it directly by going to www.ppprk.com.

The app allows anyone to pay for parking at the city’s three pay-to-park lots through your smartphone or other mobile device without actually approaching the parking meter stations erected in each of those lots. The goal is to make it even easier for you to the use the community’s parks. You can even pay parking citations with the app in case you get a ticket for failure to pay for your slot. The system went “live” last Thursday and can now be used by anybody, resident or visitor alike.

You never have to worry about carrying cash for parking again, you can actually keep track of your parking payments or print out your receipts and you can rest assured that your data is encrypted to ensure safe and secure payments every time.

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It costs nothing to register for the program using the Passport Parking App, and once you pay for any stay, the zone and license plate information that you enter is immediately sent to the parking enforcement team’s monitoring system, keeping you from facing a citation for parking illegally.

When you find yourself in a controlled lot in the city you will simply enter the zone number from the lot’s signage, enter your license plate number, and then enter the amount of time you’d like to park at that site.