Miami Beach adds tech to capture more parking revenue

Written by Janetssy Lugo on May 7, 2025

A one-year pilot program will tap technology to enforce parking charges at four Miami Beach city parking lots.

This very simple project, said sponsor Commissioner Tanya Bhatt in last month’s city commission meeting, “is a pilot program to test what could be transformative technology that would … capture people who are not currently paying their parking fees as they are supposed to.”

The four municipal lots are P-12 at 900 Washington Ave., P-13 at 1000 Washington Avenue, P-16 at 1262 Collins Ave., and P-71 at 4621 Collins Ave.
The one-year pilot with PAVE Mobility includes issuing electronic citations and charging fees for detected parking violations and non-payments, a commission memo says.

PAVE Mobility, the company’s website says, “is a team of parking experts that specialize in License Plate Recognition (LPR) and industry-leading parking technology.”

The PAVE Mobility LPR System, says the memo, includes cameras at entrances and exits of parking lots to track entry and exit times by license plate. This information is compared to payment records.

“The PAVE System helps correlate parking activity with payment activity and can generate data regarding uncollected parking fees as well as issue electronic citations to violators,” the memo says.

PAVE won’t mail citations to drivers whose vehicle registration reflects a city address, who are registered with the city’s residential parking program, or who registered with the city’s Disabled Placard Parking Permit Registration Program.

“Instead,” says the memo, “PAVE Mobility will provide all relevant information to the Parking Department regarding parking violations detected with respect to such resident vehicles and the city shall charge $1 per hour,” which is the resident rate, for the duration of the violation. People registered with the Disabled Placard Parking Permit Registration Program aren’t charged to park in municipal lots.

Ms. Bhatt said that during a phase-in period “there’s education and warnings so everybody would know the system is changing. But this seems like a win-win for everybody…. We spent a good chunk of time talking about where the lots would be, how many lots there would be. We arrived at this number and these four specific lots.”