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The prospect of charging library patrons for parking has mobilized residents and politicians in advance of a likely County Council vote next week and has both sides invoking the Constitution and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.

Those who would continue the county's policy of free parking at libraries say that an hourly fee would discourage low-income residents by creating a "de facto admissions fee," and would discriminate against residents who use libraries in the county's more urban areas.

Full article here.