Paid parking in downtown Salem is a moneymaker. Businesses wonder what’s next. 

Paid downtown parking has proven lucrative for Salem, bringing in nearly as much in its first month as an annual parking tax on downtown businesses brought in last year.

The first month brought $228,000 into city coffers, city Director of Community Planning and Development Kristin Retherford told Salem Reporter. 

If revenue continues at that pace, the city would earn about $2.7 million from downtown parking over its first year — around double what city officials…