Some parking lots requiring resident stickers?

[sparr0.livejournal.com]

I heard that during the big snow storm last winter some of the Somerville emergency parking lots were requiring resident parking stickers to park. Can anyone speak to this? Is it official, or just a parking attendant abusing their authority? Which lots are most/least likely to do this?

Comments

[ron_newman]

The parking lots have attendants?

As with the previous question, I'm going to link to this as a comment on the city's official Facebook announcement of the snow emergency, and hope they answer it.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

that link points to this post. intentional or html error?

[sparr0.livejournal.com]

For me that link goes to a Facebook post on the official City of Somerville page, where the city announced the snow emergency.

[ron_newman]

I linked to the city's announcement on Facebook. In a comment there, I linked back to this DSLJ post (and also to the previous post by lyonesse)

[rmd.livejournal.com]

Oh, nevermind - I figured it out. I've got facebook.com blocked in this browser, so the browser helpfully changed the link to something that worked - this page. clever firefox... i guess?

[ron_newman]

The city posted this answer:

"It's very unlikely that someone would get a ticket for parking in a municipal lot without a resident sticker, as safety issues are a higher priority for the Parking Department."

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

... however, when I pointed out "unlikely doesn't equal impossible", the official statement was that a resident permit or guest permit was required... In that same reply, we have this: "the lots do not have attendants and the post on DSLJ said "I heard...," so it seems there may be something missing here. Not sure what happened, but we do not have designated attendants at City lots."

[boblothrope.livejournal.com]

No, there aren't designated attendants, just like there are no attendants for metered city lots under regular conditions, nor for random streets with resident restrictions.

But there is the potential threat of a meter maid stopping by.

Parking regulations should exist in the form of a written law, and for something like a permit requirement, there should need to be signs posted for the regulation to be valid. As far as I know, neither of these conditions is met for a supposed regulation requiring permits in municipal lots during storms.