In the spirit of Tom Champion ...

[on-reserve.livejournal.com]

If you live in Ward Seven, or if you have a Zone 1 parking permit (which, I guess may apply to people in other wards) don't forget to put your new resident parking sticker on your car.

On my drive this morning, I saw DOZENS of bright orange pieces of paper staring back at me on cars with the old sticker. The city is not giving any leniency in this matter, near as I can tell.

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[leko.livejournal.com]

I asked the woman about the zones and numbers when I was getting my sticker a few weeks ago. She told me the same thing -- all the permits in a given zone expire the same month. I didn't ask why, but load-balancing seems like the obvious reason.

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

http://community.livejournal.com/davis_square/1133711.html?thread=11307407#t11307407

Sounds like people get two different answers from different parking people.

[leko.livejournal.com]

I'm not convinced that wards are the same thing as zones. I believe that I am in ward 6, parking zone Z.

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

"And she said, the numbers don't correspond to wards, they just indicate the month your permit is up."

So, according to one person at the T&P office, it has to do with when your sticker is up.

[leko.livejournal.com]

The numbers absolutely are the month that the permit expires. Zone Z expires in august. The permits have an 8 on them. Ward 6 obviously overlaps with zone Z, but to what extent is what is unclear.

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

Again, I'm saying there are conflicting accounts of whether the numbers do indeed refer to specific zones.

I have seen multiple residents within a one bock radius of my home, with multiple different numbers for their stickers.

Maybe an actual city official could point us to a solid policy that explains it.

[somertricky.livejournal.com]

(but then they'd have to get all the parking clerks on the same page then...)

[on-reserve.livejournal.com]

Wards are definitely not the same as parking zones. I'm Ward 7 and Parking Zone 1. I think Parking Zones are tied to where you geographically live but not aligned with ward numbers.

[pearlythebunny.livejournal.com]

It's starting to sound as if the zones might go from west to east, beginning with zone 1 farthest west, then zone 2 next, and so on until zone 12 would be in East Somerville somewhere.