Somerville parking anal violation

[concrete.livejournal.com]

Tomorrow is the last day of January, where our parking passes expire.

If you got new parking passes already: when did you get them?

If you don't have the passes yet: where will you park Sunday night?

Comments

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

Tom, it seems like those stickers were good for 13, 14, or 15 months because the alternative for someone scrambling to get a sticker for the first time in November or December 2009 in those zones would have been to buy one that was good for just 2 or 3 months (not 12 like the renewal).

If they were nice, they'd stick to a similar policy in general - moving to Somerville you would pay full price for a partial year, but at some point instead of getting shafted by a sticker that's only good for 1 month or 2 months they can sell you the next year's sticker good for slightly over a year. Perhaps, when they have the stickers ready to start processing renewals, which I know they have before the month in question.

I renewed my sticker when I got the form in the mail in December, and I'm in Zone 1/January 31 expiration. I got the new sticker late December.

[boblothrope.livejournal.com]

The right way to solve this problem would be to pro-rate the price for your first sticker. If it's good for 6 months, you pay half price, etc.

[pjmorgan.livejournal.com]

I require my tenants to leave their visitor's permits when they leave for the next tenant. (Can't do that with stickers though).

[pywaket.livejournal.com]

And exactly how do you "require" they leave something that they paid for?

[pjmorgan.livejournal.com]

Well they receive the permits the previous tenants left for them so they don't have to pay for that initial partial year. Pay it forward, you know?

Plus when they don't live in the property anymore, they're not allowed to use the visitor permits anymore (and they wouldn't even want to use them on a cheating basis, unless they plan on visiting the neighborhood frequently or trying to sell them to a neighbor), so why should they take them with them?

[boblothrope.livejournal.com]

Can the next tenant also apply for new visitor permits, and end up with more than the maximum allowed by the city?