Parking at the Spokane County Courthouse will soon be more expensive, but there’ll be more ways to pay for it.

The Spokane County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Aug. 12 to update county code regarding public parking on and around the county campus, including an increase in parking fees and fines, a transition to virtual parking permits and expanded enforcement hours.

Ashley Cloud, senior director of Human Resources for Spokane County, told the board and members of the public these are the first major changes in more than two decades.

“Not only have legal terms changed, the landscape changed, but also our lots, what we’re doing,” Cloud said. “So we need to make changes to our code.”

Spokane County’s campus north of the Spokane River includes more than a dozen parking lots open

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