[identity profile] kalimba21.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] davis_square
I believe that guest passes are zoned - that is they must be used in the area where they are issued.

The other day I saw a car with a parking ticket - saying no permit - but they had a guest pass. It was on my street - a different looking guest pass than mine, but the address on the guest pass was two houses down but around the corner - possibly a different zone.

So... I know I'm on the edge of 3 wards, Do the guest passes coincide with the wards? Does anyone know if there is a map, and if I must have my guests park within my zone? This is all new to me as we used to have casual parking. Any insight would be appreciated.

Date: 2010-03-24 10:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mamabunny72.livejournal.com
People who use my visitor pass park within a few houses of my house.

Date: 2010-03-24 10:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cold-type.livejournal.com
Somerville frequently tickets cars that use the visitors pass too many days in a row. "These cards are to be used by your visitors only twice a week in the same vehicle," according to the city's web site.

Date: 2010-03-24 03:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] raysimoto.livejournal.com
This is my favorite rule. An ex-boyfriend got a ticket for being at my house too much. Somerville also wants us to keep 4 feet on the floor while sitting on the couch together and to "leave room for the Holy Ghost" while dancing.

Date: 2010-03-24 04:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blacktigr.livejournal.com
I think it's to keep people like the ones on my street from doing what they do. There's a car from NY, one from VA, and one from Utah. I see each of these cars all the time, and they rotate them in and out of the parking spots in the driveways so that the cars don't get ticketed.

Interestingly enough, the one from VA says TIE FTR. That's about the only reason I haven't called 311 on it.

Date: 2010-03-24 10:47 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] eanja
The back of the guest passes I've used visiting people say it's good for the street or adjacent streets to the address marked on front. Which I assume means if there's no parking on the street I'm visiting, I can park around the corner, but no further.

No idea how wards come into- I don't remember seeing that on the back of the pass, but then, I was only looking to see where I could park if the street itself was full. So I'd start w/ reading the pass and seeing if it says anything about it. How would a guest even know where ward boundaries are?

Date: 2010-03-24 11:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] prunesnprisms.livejournal.com
Guest passes have been zoned for a while, basically, if your guest parks more than a block or so in any direction from the address written on your pass they will flag it, but it's the number that matters.

Date: 2010-03-24 12:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] srakkt.livejournal.com
The ticket was almost certainly for overuse of the pass in question. The back of the pass actually has language which described the rules about how often it may be used.

Date: 2010-03-24 12:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chenoameg.livejournal.com
The guest pass can be used on your street or cross street.

Date: 2010-03-24 02:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] surrealestate.livejournal.com
If it looked different, it may also be that it was an expired guest pass.

In what way was it different? The different zones look nearly identical, just a different large letter, but for different years, the color changes. If it was more different than that, it may have been an entirely different city.

Date: 2010-03-24 05:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] boblothrope.livejournal.com
So which is it -- lettered zones with sharp boundaries, or distance/number of blocks/number of adjacent streets from the registered address?

If it's the former (as in Cambridge, where they print a map on the back of the visitor permit), then people who live near a boundary could have trobule. If it's the latter, then it's a fuzzy judgement call (always fun with strictly-enforced rules) and the zone letter doesn't mean much.

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