If you're looking to park in a downtown garage for a day, use the new 3-D printer at the library or pump out groundwater to build a basement, be prepared to spend more money for the privilege.

More than a hundred fees in Palo Alto are set to go up in July as part of the city's effort to recover costs and support rising City Hall salaries. The increases, which are laid out in City Manager James Keene's proposed municipal fee schedule for 2018, are set to be reviewed by the City Council's Finance Committee on May 18 and approved by the full council in June.

As part of Keene's proposal, most of the fees assessed by the city would go up by 6 percent, the average increase of salaries and benefits for fiscal year 2018, which begins on July 1. In addition, there are about 120 fees that would see a different adjustment -- in most cases far greater than 6 percent. About half of these are in the Community Services Department and relate to playing on the Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course (which is now undergoing a major renovation), renting recreational facilities or enrolling in swim classes at Rinconada Pool. Those increases hover around 30 percent or more.

Keene's proposal also calls for increasing 14 fees in Development Services, 12 in the Fire Department, 17 in Planning and Community Environment and 12 in Public Works, according to Keene's report. Some Public Works fees would go up by more than 40 percent.

In the Planning Department, the lion's share of the increases pertain to employee parking, both on the streets and in city-owned lots and garages. Downtown employees who participate in the Residential Preferential Parking program will see the price of their permits go up from the current level of $466 per year to $280 for six months, a 20 percent hike. A daily pass for parking on residential streets -- both in the downtown and in the Evergreen Park neighborhood -- would go up from $5 to $25, a change that staff says will "bring uniformity and move toward revenues covering program costs."

Garages would also become significantly pricier in the city's two main commercial neighborhoods. A permit for a California Avenue garage is set to go up from $149 to $280 per year, an 84.6 percent jump. In downtown, the permit cost would go up by 20 percent, from $466 to $560 per year.

A more significant change will hit employees around California Avenue who currently buy permits to park on the streets of Mayfield and Evergreen Park. The cost of a six-month permit is set to rise by 276 percent, from the current level of $149 per year to $280 for a six-month period. Low-income workers, meanwhile, will see their rate go up from $50 per year to $50 for a six-month period.

The price of a daily parking permit would also go up to $25 in both downtown, where the current rate is $17.50, and on California Avenue, where the rate is $8 today. The shift means that the rate for a daily parking pass in a California Avenue garage will jump up by 212.5 percent.

The decision to ratchet up the parking rates was driven in large part by a recently completed Downtown Parking Management Study, which recommended a broader switch away from the current system of color zones that offers free parking with a two-hour limit, to a system of paid parking, whether through parking meters or pay stations.

The study also compared the parking rates in surrounding cities and concluded that Palo Alto's current prices per permit are comparatively low.

"The current cost for an All-Day Permit is $17.50 and this rate is not consistent with the surrounding markets and the current demand for parking in Palo Alto," the study stated.

While the city is proceeding slowly on redesigning downtown's parking ecosystem, officials are preparing to move swiftly with the rate change. Last week, the city's Budget Director Kiely Nose told the Finance Committee during an overview of the 2018 budget that the city will be seeing "significant revenue increases in the California Avenue and University Avenue areas, as well as RPP districts." The funds, she said, would be used to make "significant investments" in parking infrastructure.

"We're moving up in terms of permit prices so that we can start to fund some of the critical projects like access controls, paid parking and the parking guidance system (at local garages)," Nose said, referring to technology that will use red and green lights to identify open spaces.

Another significant change concerns the fee for groundwater pumping, an activity that has been the subject of growing community concern over the past year. With residents calling for tighter regulations, if not an outright moratorium, on what's known as "dewatering," the council has recently instituted new requirements on groundwater pumping, including regulations calling for property owners to create "fill stations" that allow neighbors to use the pumped out water for irrigation or construction cleanup.

The council is also considering adopting even more stringent regulations next year, which may include a requirement that contractors avoid "broad-area" dewatering techniques in favor of a more localized approach that requires less pumping. But while these rules are not set to arrive until next year, the city isn't waiting that long to establish the higher fee for groundwater discharge. The proposal in Keene's municipal fee schedule calls for raising the fee from the current level of $2,903 to $14,093, a 385.5 percent hike.

According to a report from the Administrative Services Department, the increase was made to "adjust for actual costs, including department specific overhead, and meet Council cost-recovery directive." It also includes the cost for paying consultants to evaluate the impacts of dewatering.