zoned parking permits ?

[i-leonardo.livejournal.com]

according to this article, the aldermen are considering zoned parking:

http://somervillenews.typepad.com/the_somerville_news/2010/03/alderman-proposes-zoned-parking-permits.html

Comments

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

I'm still not getting you. No more people have permits than before.

[ron_newman]

Actually, more people do have permits now -- the people who used to live on non-permit streets, who all had to get permits this year.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Those people didn't have permits before? I did when I lived in Somerville, even though I lived on a private road, so that I could park on permit-only streets.

[starry83.livejournal.com]

No, more than 2500 new people got resident permits just before that deadline in January.
http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/somerville/2010/01/in_somerville_long_lines_more.html

[ron_newman]

So did I, back when I had a car and lived on a non-permit street, but a lot of folks probably didn't bother.

I still don't have a permit

[avjudge]

I didn't have a permit, and still don't. Or visitor permits. I have a driveway large enough for my single car and 5 others, way bigger than I ever need. When I drive somewhere in Somerville it either has a parking lot (Market Basket, Assembly Square, Target) or metered parking (Davis) - and I park in metered spots rarely enough (pretty much just about half the Wednesdays in farmers' market season) that a permit wouldn't pay, or barely would and isn't worth the hassle of getting it. And within Somerville I often just walk if it's within a mile and a little, and most of Somerville is.