For five years, City of St. Pete has been waiving parking tickets for business patrons; who knew?
There’s a nifty little box on the City of St. Petersburg’s home page that announces the current temperature and three random city factoids that change each time the web page is refreshed. One of those little tidbits is the number of parking citations forgiven — 5,738 as of Wednesday. That’s a weird piece of data to brag about on a website, right? So, here’s why someone at the city thought it was a good number to tout on the Internet.…