Fishers considers charging nonresidents $50 to park at Geist Waterfront Park

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14 thoughts on “Fishers considers charging nonresidents $50 to park at Geist Waterfront Park

  1. This is awesome news that Fishers recognizes that it’s fair to charge non-residents for use of their assets.

    Can we now start charging non-residents of Marion County for using our roads to get to work?

    1. Entirely nonsensical take.

      The park is still free, the parking lot is not. This is a very reasonable stance. Free parking is a plague.

    2. CHARLES M. no your take is nonsensical….Indianapolis does not charge people to utilize the many great parks around the city. This is to keep people that aren’t affluent out of the park.

    1. “Due to the volume [of visitors] we’re anticipating, we are creating a fee structure for nonresidents, and that would be a limited number of spots each day available for purchase at $50 per car, per day,” Fishers Director of Recreation and Wellness Jake Reardon-McSoley told the board.

    1. Best way to keep the “undesireables” out. However, for reference, I spent $60 to park ACROSS THE STREET from Wrigley Field a few weeks ago. Make no mistake, Fishers sure isn’t Chicago and this beach sure as heck isn’t the Cubs. Curious how they will determine who is and is not a resident. What if my family from out of town has a larger car that would be better to transport everyone to the beach and I’m driving. I’m a Fishers resident, but the license plate is from out of town. Would I be required to pay the $50? Conversely, while drivers licenses are “required” to be updated when a change of address is made, how many people actually do this? That would make the city listed on your license an unreliable method. I’m guessing a sticker on the windshield kind of like what Carmel tried to do a few years back. Seemed to have worked for them…..oh wait……

  2. What folks, seem to forget: Geist was built on the backs of ratepayers of the Indianapolis Water Company. Which was very profitable for a few choice (wealthy, developer) families. Not sure if Fishers residents were even part of the IWC fee structure at the time Geist was built.

  3. At $50/day, this is for a 70-foot-long, pull-thru, overnight RV space with full electric, water and sewer hookup, a fire ring and picnic table, right?

  4. My residence is three doors down from the beach parking lot – our neighborhood is going full Speedway and we’re going to let Fishers non-aliens park in our front yards for ten bucks a day just to teach our city council a lesson. We’ll even dress up our front porches like every day is Beach Day just like Speedway residents do it for IMS.

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