Last year, Council agreed to introduce time-limited parking in Feilding CBD to encourage a greater turnover of visitors in town.

From July 2024 we will actively enforce the time limits. To do this, we will employ a parking warden to monitor the parking time limits and to issue parking fines.

We have budgeted $125,000 per year to cover the operational cost of enforcement, including parking warden staff costs, uniform and software to issue fines.

We'd like to know your views on how to fairly share the cost across ratepayers.

The options we're proposing

  • 100% of the cost through General Rates

    Council's preferred option

    This would see 100% of the cost being met by a general rates charge across the district. Everyone pays an equal share, which is based on the assumption that everyone in the district will benefit from a higher turnover of visitors to the town centre in terms of economic growth, town centre vibrancy and more opportunities to park in town. This would cost a Feilding ratepayer about $0.25 extra per week, and a rural ratepayer about $0.13 extra per week.*

  • 25% CBD targeted rates & 75% general rates

    25% CBD Targeted Rates & 75% General Rates

    Fund enforcement by splitting the costs - 25% paid by town centre businesses and the remaining 75% cost spread across all other rate payers. This assumes that town centre businesses will benefit more from the time limited parking as the number of shoppers in town will increase. Here both Feilding and rural ratepayers would pay about an extra $0.13 per week*, and our town centre businesses would pay about an extra $2.15 per week,

  • 100% CBD Targeted Rates

    100% of the costs are paid by CBD businesses with no burden on other rate payers. This assumes they are receiving all the benefit of a higher number of visitors in town. For this option, our town centre businesses would pay about an extra $8.10 per week, Feilding ratepayers $0.25 less per week, and rural ratepayers $0.13 per week.

*To provide an 'apples for apples' comparison in the options within this section, we use the median property Capital Value across all ratepayer categories (excluding Defence properties) - this value is $660,000. Please see our Consultation Document for a full explanation of how we have worked out these indicative rates based on median capital property value.

Which option do you prefer?

Let us know by completing our submission form