City motorists will from July start paying hourly parking fee within the Central Business District.
City Hall aims to improve its declining revenue of parking fees by implementing hourly parking.
Nairobi County Executive for Finance and Economic Planning Allan Igambi said the county had several interventions to improve revenue collection from parking including increasing enforcement and improving supervision.
“To boost revenue collection specifically for parking stream, the county government will begin implementing the mentioned interventions and at the same time also leveraging on technology that offers integrated electronic system for all revenue streams as well as sealing off of leakages,” he said.
The Finance boss also revealed that all saccos will be issued with notices for those vehicles which are non-compliant and the list will be passed to the enforcement officer to take necessary action.
Parking fees is among six key revenue streams for Nairobi County with the others include building permits and billboards and adverts, rates, single business permit, house rents which account for close to 80 per cent of the county’s annual own-source revenue.
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