https://www.tampabay.com/news/localgovernment/Dunedin-shuts-down-paid-parking-discussion_171353318 https://www.tampabay.com/news/localgovernment/Dunedin-shuts-.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/localgovernment/Dunedin-shuts-down-paid-parking-discussion_171353318 https://www.tampabay.com/news/localgovernment/Dunedin-shuts-... This is an article from the town in my example above - comments from business owners make it seem like, yes, the primary issue really was that people don't want to pay anything at all to park. (A couple of years after the controversial paid street parking experiment started, a new mixed-use development with a public parking garage on the ground level opened up. The garage is still free to park in to this day. Somebody paid a lot of money for those garage spaces, and is seemingly very afraid of charging anything to use them)