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

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

Good luck with getting it changed. It's been discussed in this, and other, forums at least as early as 2005 (at least), and it still hasn't been changed. The city's theory is that by requiring those who park on the streets to move their cars every two days, this frees up more parking spaces, and reduces the attitude that a particular parking space belongs to a specific resident.

All in all, I doubt they'll change it.

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

all of this. this comes up as a discussion point every couple of years.

[robin bobo (from livejournal.com)]

OK, good to know that this is a well-recognized point of frustration. Thanks for the historical perspective on it.

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

Plus the which that except for snowstorms it is rarely enforced if you are following the rules (not in someone's driveway entrance, not on a crosswalk, not in an intersection, etc.) It's irritating, but not a huge deal in practice.

And now you have extra incentive to get the car cleaned sooner before it all sets into ice anyway, I guess.

[teko.livejournal.com]

Exactly. In my experience, it's very irregularly enforced. If you're a longtime resident whose car they recognize, the parking cops will rarely if ever ticket you. After a snow emergency last year, a car with a local resident permit parked on my street, barely overlapping my driveway. I filed tickets with 311 after the car hadn't been moved for two days; traffic cops came out, gave it a 'warning' ticket, and then a 'real' ticket a day later. But then they'll ticket other cars like the one above right after 48 hrs have passed.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Yep. The good-old-boy thing is alive and well. I remember calling in because somebody had parked at the corner completely blocking the (bright yellow, very obvious) curb cut. I figured they had just pulled over to run in somewhere, but I finally called when I noticed the car was still there hours later. A cop eventually came by, looked at the car, made a phone call, and a shortly thereafter, somebody came out and moved it. No ticket issued. You think you or I would have gotten that lucky?