A parking ticket in the historic district costs $35, and inside one zone drawn around the old town it costs $100. Tonight the commission takes a first reading. It would carry that zone across the Bridge of Lions.

The zone today runs from Old Mission Avenue to South Street, bounded by the Matanzas River on one side and the San Sebastian on the other. Ordinance 2026-23 would add everything north of Anastasia Boulevard between the Bridge of Lions and Comares Avenue, out to the Matanzas and Salt Run, including Anastasia Boulevard itself. It would also add the rights of way south of Anastasia between the bridge and South Matanzas Boulevard, out to the river and the yacht basin, and it would stop at South Matanzas Boulevard without taking it.

What that adds is Davis Shores. It adds the Comares Avenue waterfront. And it adds the boulevard that carries every car on and off Anastasia Island.

Which tickets go to $100, and the one that does not

The $100 applies to four sections of the code. The ordinance names them: 24-39, 24-45, 24-46 and 24-47. The code gives those as no-parking zones, extended parking, parking in designated restricted stands, and certain motor vehicles and trailers in residential districts.

The same subsection carries a fifth, 24-41. That one is manner of parking. It stays at $35 everywhere, inside the zone and out of it. Park badly and it is $35. Park where you may not park and in the new zone it is $100.

When it starts, which is not a date

Section 5 gives the effective date. The ordinance takes effect ten days after passage, which is the statute. Then it says enforcement “will commence once appropriate signage and striping is provided.”

So the answer to when a driver on Comares Avenue starts risking a hundred dollars is not on the calendar. It is on the pole. The first reading is tonight. The consent agenda tentatively schedules the second reading for Oct. 26.

The other half of the item, which is not an ordinance

Staff were also directed on Sept. 28 to expand the temporary residential parking program, and that part arrives as a presentation rather than as law. Five neighborhoods are in it, and each one has its own clock.

Flagler Model Land, 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., the whole season. Uptown, 3 p.m. to 10 p.m., with a 5 p.m. start on the east end of Rohde and Cincinnati and in the commercially zoned stretches. Abbott Tract, 1 p.m. to 10 p.m., with the same 5 p.m. start for commercial frontage. North Davis Shores, 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. South Davis Shores, 1 p.m. to 9 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays only.

Read Flagler Model Land twice. Seven in the morning is more than ten hours before the trolley takes its first load at 5:30, and it is six hours earlier than the next earliest start on the list, which is the 1 p.m. in Abbott Tract and both Davis Shores zones.

The season has no dates on it

Every one of those five slides says the enforcement runs the “entirety of NOLs season,” and not one of them prints a date.

Neither does the ordinance. It does not mention the season at all. The resolution the commission took up in March was written to end the annual date-setting: its Section 2 says the dates “shall remain fixed from year-to-year without need for further action by the City Commission.” The copy in that packet is unsigned, its adoption line reading “this day of , 2026,” and no executed version has turned up in a city packet since. So there is no annual item where a resident would see a calendar, and there is no signed resolution to read instead.

The only city document that names 2026-27 dates is a contract. The operating agreements with Old Town Trolley Tours, which went to the commission on consent in April, give Nov. 22, 2026 through Jan. 18, 2027, nightly from 5:30 p.m. What those instruments date is the trolley’s run, not the city’s season, and both copies in that packet are unsigned too, with the day and the month left blank.

What the city says it costs a business

The Business Impact Estimate attached to the item leaves every statutory exemption box unchecked and fills the estimate out anyway.

It gives the purpose as making room for emergency vehicles and keeping intersections clear in neighborhoods next to the historic district. It says there are no direct compliance costs to businesses, no new charges or fees on them, and that the signage comes out of the city’s ordinary street budget.

Against the question of how many businesses are likely to be affected, the city wrote one word. None.