Visitor Parking

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I know there's some simple process for getting a visitor parking tag, but my memory of it is lost in the echoing corridors of time. Now I have a reason to need one, since my boyfriend has collected all the parking tickets he'd wanted.

I seem to recall the process involving $1 and a visit to an office somewhere in Davis...

(I'll put this thread in community memories so we all know where it is.)

Comments

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

As the folks said, go to the parking office and bring a utility bill addressed to your place. (It doesn't even have to be in your name.)

Be warned, however: there are limits to their use per car. I think it's three days in a row and two weeks per year. So if you use them both, that's four weeks worth a year. They *will* track that sort of thing and ticket for overuse.

[ron_newman]

I didn't think there was any limit to the number of weeks.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

There was on the last ones I got, but they may have changed it for this year. I found this (http://www.ci.somerville.ma.us/section.cfm?org=traffic&page=138) which seems to indicate the specs have indeed changed, as it's now two days a week, whereas it used to be three consecutive days.

Anyone got one and can post the fine print?

Anyway, the point (I believe) is to prevent residents from using a visitor pass instead registering their car in Somerville.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

(If they've eliminated the annual max, that's quite a score! They definitely used to ticket for that and it was a friggin pain.)