[Summit] Fw: Overnight parking

[Patrick Ward]

Hi,
My name is Patrick Ward. I work with a group called
Citizens for Resident Permit Parking. I can provide a
petition and a letter of instruction for anyone who
needs it.

Also, I am not sure where Jennifer got her information
but I am not aware of any voter registration
requirement to sign a petition. The overnight parking
ban is NOT a law it is an ordinance. I have been
involved in several successful petition drives in the
last year and I know what I am talking about.

The FPNA and the CHNA will be discussing permit
parking at meetings in the next 60 days. FPNA on
October 24th and CHNA on November 19th.

The SNA could sponsor a forum so people in the
community can get together and voice opinions face to
face about permit parking. Its the right thing to do.

Please feel free to contact me if I can be of any
assistance

Thank you,
Patrick Ward
www.crpp-providence.org





--- Jennifer Cole <jennifer at groundworkprovidence.org>
wrote:

> Petitions to the City Council/Mayor need the
> following information
>  
> Narrative about what the petition is saying  "We the
> undersigned residents
> of Providence support Overnight On Street Permitted
> Parking in the
> neighborhoods of Hope and Mount Hope." or whatever.
>  
> Name (printed)         Address (printed)            
>    signature (signed)
> it is REALLY important that each printed name and
> address is readable!!!
> Anything not legible will be just crossed off. 
>  
> Remember!!!! And this is critical, petitions to
> change laws in the city of
> providence can only be signed by Providence
> Residents Who Are Registered To
> Vote in Providence.   Well, I mean, anyone can sign
> a petition, but the city
> will give the petition to the board of canvassers
> and they will literally
> cross off the list anyone who is not a Providence
> voter.  Folks should think
> too, about carrying a few voter registration cards
> (picked up at the Board
> of Canvassers office down at city hall) and
> registering people who may not
> have ever done so in the city. A kind of two birds,
> one stone sort of deal.
>  
> If SNA has not yet taken a position to support (or
> not) the switch of
> overnight on street ticket parking, then I doubt SNA
> will be the entity to
> put together a petition as stuff needs to be vetted
> internally (I would
> imagine). Folks interested in making the change
> should organize themselves,
> get a standard petition together with the
> information I've noted above, and
> hit the streets. 
>  
>   _____  
> 
> From: summit-bounces at sna.providence.ri.us
> [mailto:summit-bounces at sna.providence.ri.us] On
> Behalf Of Jennifer Luxmoore
> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 11:05 AM
> To: John Bazik
> Cc: Neighborhood Association
> Subject: Re: [Summit] Fw: Overnight parking
>  
> Do I have to start a petition? (I will) Or is the
> SNA going to put one out?
> I sort of figured that's what the SNA did, but if
> I'm wrong about that, I
> will certainly put together a petition, just let me
> know where/who I need to
> drop it off to... Gordon Fox? 
> Jennifer Luxmoore
> jennifer at luxmoore.com
>  
> 
> 
> 
>  
> On Oct 5, 2007, at 10:33 AM, John Bazik wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 09:43:41AM -0400, Jennifer
> Luxmoore wrote:
> It sounds like the majority of people are in favor
> of on-street 
> overnight parking. It looks like the subject should
> be brought up to 
> the appropriate people and the city should make a
> determination as to 
> what to do. Whether that involves voting on it,
> issuing a specific 
> number of on street stickers per household, street,
> neighborhood etc. 
> But it seems that enough people what to investigate
> the matter further.
>  
> The city is already considering resident permit
> parking. There
> has been a pilot program in Washington Park over the
> last year and,
> apparently, other programs are planned. Here's the
> press release:
>  
>
http://www.providenceri.com/CityCouncil/ward10/article.php?id=95
>  
> I would hesitate to conclude from a discussion on a
> mailing list that
> there is any kind of consensus. You might consider a
> petition, that's
> what WBNA is doing in West Broadway.
>  
> John
>  
>  
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