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

[taerowyn.livejournal.com]

Nope, your first year you usually get short-changed as the timing of expiration IS based on location (i.e. resident permits in certain areas of the city all expire at the same time). So, for instance, if in May you move into an area where the permits all expire in July, your first $15 only pays for those initial few months, then in July you have to spend another $15 for a new permit that will run through the following July.

[mcary219.livejournal.com]

good to know... something i did not know i thought i was safe until I purchased it. knowing is half the battle!

[mcary219.livejournal.com]

i mean safe until the date i purchased (ie july)

[no1onthecorner.livejournal.com]

Sometimes you luck out your first year - I first got a permit in January, and it was good through March of the following year. I think it depends on the timing.

And OP, I parked with an expired permit on the first of the month last year, on a street that's regularly patrolled for parking, and wasn't ticketed - just one anecdote and not an official policy (and the city might want the income more this year), but there's occasionally leniency.

[tom-champion.livejournal.com]

When the City converted to citywide permit parking, the new rules went into effect on January 4, 2010. For new permit holders in Zones 1, 2 or 3 (exp. Jan, Feb, March), T&P issued stickers that were good for 13, 14 or 15 months instead of the usual 12. From now on, though, if you buy a new car or move into Somerville, you have to pay the full price for a sticker that's good for a partial year. That's the way it was before the switch and the way it will be going forward.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

T&P issued stickers that were good for 13, 14 or 15 months instead of the usual 12

Ah, if I'd known that, I would have gotten my visitor passes sooner. I was concerned that if I got them early, they'd expire in a month. Nice to know that was done, anyway.

To the OP: it happens that mine expires in January as well so I went in last week at ~2pm because I figured that was a slow time. I'm not sure there's *ever* a slow time these days. The wait was quite long, so be prepared for that. (It seems that part of the problem is that the process is just slow. I was getting my sticker renewed, had all my docs, no problem, no questions, cash deal, but it still took close to 10 minutes of window, which seems really lengthy for such a simple transaction.)

Also, since you live around the corner, you're welcome to come by and borrow a visitor pass or park in my driveway or something.

[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?