Santa Rosa is moving forward with a plan to rip out dozens of relatively new downtown parking stations that merchants said were baffling to their customers and bad for business.

Four years after ripping out hundreds of parking meters downtown, Santa Rosa is considering putting them back in, this time with high-tech versions meant to be more user-friendly than the much-maligned pay stations.

Bernie Schwartz, owner of California Luggage on Fourth Street, says he’s collected about 200 signatures from people who overwhelmingly support individual ‘smart’ parking meters.