48 hour resident parking rule

[robin bobo]

Hi,

I just got slapped with a parking ticket for leaving my car in one spot for 48 hours. (I am a resident.) I guess it was obvious from the snow piled on top of it.

But this just sounds like a bad law. Why would you want to incentivize people to move their cars every 2 days? I am not blocking thing, I am in a legal parking spot, no one is hurt by me leaving my car where I park it all of the time. If they have problem with me leaving snow on my car, then the law should be, "Residents must clear snow from car within 48hours of snow storm."

rb.

Comments

[renee campo (from livejournal.com)]

I have a resident on my street that has 7 cars ... all with resident stickers and I called about him leaving his car for weeks at a time in front of my home. No one wants to visit my home because parking is so hard on my street. I was told by Parking at 311 that they do not enforce the 48 rule during the winter! And if I do call to report car has not moved, it starts 48 hours from THAT day. It's a major issue and something needs to be done. I brought it to my alderpersons attention but it went nowhere. Fight it!

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

In my experience, except in rare cases, winter is the *only* time they enforce it.

[mjperson.livejournal.com]

Yeah, winter is the only time it's obvious that the car didn't move. Other times, I went out and then parked back in the same place is too easy a defense so they don't bother.