If anyone can explain this to me, I’d appreciate it:

If nearby city-owned garage fees are hiked $1 per vehicle for concerts, hockey and basketball games next year, the Peoria Civic Center then might have to increase its parking costs. … “We’re usually 50 cents ahead of (the garage fees) . . . we’ll have to look at it,” [Civic Center General Manager Debbie] Ritschel said. “Usually people are willing to pay more when you are closer.”

Huh? Why the moral imperative that the Civic Center lot must cost more than city parking garages? And what’s Ritschel’s definition of “closer”? I would contend that the city garage across Jefferson is just as close as the Civic Center lot across Monroe. How curious.