In 30 days, parking tickets will cost $10 more, setting them at $25 for an expired meter.

That’s just one of the increases set for parking in downtown Vancouver, aimed to address a lack of spaces and drivers flouting the cheap parking, according to city staff.

Vancouver City Council members also voted to give the city manager the ability to raise the parking meter fees to $2.50 an hour and parking permits in downtown Vancouver to $200 a month and $25 a day.

During the Monday city council meeting, Chad Eiken, community and economic development director, addressed final public backlash that mostly came from the city’s unfinished parking study.

Marcus Griffith of Vancouver said the city broke the law by using the $86,000 study by Dixon Resources Unlimited as support for passing the parking increases and not making it available to the public.

Eiken said the city “made a mistake in making it appear that we were relying on the study.”