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.

Comments

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Has anyone shown you otherwise, for you to assume it's *not* true? Why not just call the parking office or 311 if you care so much?

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

I live in a neighborhood where many people have stickers marked "1", I have one marked "5".

Other people have wondered, on this community, and i have checked the city's webpage - nothing there about it.

eta:
I live in ward one, I have a "5" sticker. My inspection tag, my plates, and my parking sticker all renew in the same month - the month I first got the car, and registered it, in 2005.

[pearlythebunny.livejournal.com]

If your parking sticker has a 5, then you must renew it in May. If your plates and inspection sticker renew that month, too, I think it is a coincidence. The month your plate renews will never change, I think, but the month of your inspection can change, if you go in late.

I have an inspection sticker that was a 6 (June). I went in a few days late, at the beginning of July. So for a year, I had a 7 sticker. Then next year, I went in a few days late, and I had an 8. Now I am up to 11. So inspection stickers expire in the month a year from when you get them.

[on-reserve.livejournal.com]

So inspection stickers expire in the month a year from when you get them.

This is true unless you get rejected. If you go in June, get rejected and then get repairs and bring it back for a re-test your sticker will be for the month you originally brought it in.

Only saying this because last year I went in January, failed, took until mid-March to get repairs and thought I'd get a cool March sticker. Nope. January.

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

FYI, the month that your license plate renews is based on the final digit of the plate number. If your plate ends in 5, and you acquired your car in May, then both the plate registration and the inspection tag will be due for renewal in May, but it's pure coincidence.

(If you were to put off getting your inspection done until the first day of June, you'd get a 6/June inspection tag, but your plates would still expire in May. And unless you change your place of residence, your Somerville parking zone won't change either.)

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

My plate ends in 6, my tags renew in May.

And unless you change your place of residence, your Somerville parking zone won't change either.

My residence did change, and I still have the same number on my parking sticker as before - and my residence change is on my registration.

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

Oops, I guess I should have said "unless you change your place of residence to a different parking zone." Obviously one can move within a zone and still have the same number on one's parking sticker....

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

I'm in a way different "zone".

Does someone have a map of these zones?

Because, seriously, in my neighborhood I have seen, on cars that are regularly parked there, well over three different numbered stickers.

[on-reserve.livejournal.com]

Well you can park in any zone with resident parking -- so some of your neighbors may have lived in a another zone, gotten the permit for that zone and then moved. When they go to renew, they'll get a sticker for the new zone (if they are in a new zone).

sigh

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

I moved from near the hidden donut factory to over by gilman square.

I still have the same number sticker, two renewals later.

Re: sigh

[pearlythebunny.livejournal.com]

My guess is that Gilman Square is near the border of two or three zones, so there are cars parked around there with two or three different resident parking numbers.

[pearlythebunny.livejournal.com]

My plate ends in J.

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

Do you have one of those vintage green 123-ABC plates? I'm not sure if those have the "last number is the month it expires" feature.

[pearlythebunny.livejournal.com]

Yes, but there are other types of plates that end with letters. I've seen many plates with red letters/numbers that are something like 1234 AB.

[nalz.livejournal.com]

Like mine - new plate, but ends in letters.

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

1234 AB would expire in April.

[pearlythebunny.livejournal.com]

I found this on the Registry's website, so it looks like you are right (except my plate does not seem to follow the rule. My plate renews in August, but the last digit is 7.)

In 1968, the introduction of the staggered registration instituted a plate that expired every two years with the expiration month determined by the last numeric digit on the registration. Thus, a plate that ended with a "1" expired in January, a plate that ended with a "2" expired in February, etc. Color coded plate decals with expiration years printed on them stemmed from the advent of the staggered system and are still used today.