[Summit] Fw: Overnight parking

Tue Oct 9 15:18:07 UTC 2007

I am NOT in favor of over night parking.  I have lived in both kinds of
neighborhoods, and despite the inconvenience and occasional tickets, I much
prefer clear streets at night. It effects the flavor of the neighborhood.
Sends a message. Seems to slow development. Makes it a little more
noticeable for a thief to pull up and empty a house. Makes parking during
the day a lot easier. (One place I lived I could not even unload my
groceries near my door.)  Allows for easier snow removal and street
cleaning. etc.
That is just my opinion.

I HAVE had the problem with calling about parking a night.  Once my car
broke down at midnite when I went to park it. Calling and putting a note on
it did not help: I got a ticket any way.  When I asked for a hearing to
contest it, they scheduled me on a day I couldn't go.  But that's life. We
forget to do deal with our shared-driveway-car-shuffle periodically, and a
car gets left out; in 11 years we have gotten at least a dozen tickets as a
result.
A when we have a visitor on the Sabbath we can't call anytime in the
evening, so we have to arrange to borrow a parking space from a neighbor.
But we still prefer no on street parking.

But maybe there could be a compromise- with no regular on street parking,
but everyone gets 1/2 dozen overnight chits/permission slips made out to
their specific address.  The police come around and when they would write
the ticket, they collect the chit instead.  Families with special
situations, such as weddings and funerals, could be issued for extras.

Elianna Bresler

On 10/5/07, Jennifer Luxmoore <jennifer at luxmoore.com> 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.
> Jennifer Luxmoore
> jennifer at luxmoore.com
>
>
>
> On Oct 5, 2007, at 5:54 AM, Paul Aceto wrote:
>
>     Judging from the most recent round of discussion, the pressing problem
>
> isn't permanent parking but temporary parking. Let's fix the problem with
> the police, not make a major change that will affect our quality of life.
> Those people who want more permanent parking for themselves should
> remember
> that they knew how much parking thier property offered before they bought
> it. It reminds me of people who buy houses near the airport, then complain
>
> about the noise. Landlords, I own rental property and limit my tenant to
> one
> car. That apartment has never been vacant in 27 years.In fact, I've had a
> waiting list.
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Theresa Mathiesen" <elvamath at gmail.com>
> To: "Neighborhood Association" <Summit at sna.providence.ri.us>
> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 8:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [Summit] Overnight parking
>
>
> Hi, all,
>
> We've tried it.  The police department doesn't start their list until
> 11 p.m.  My husband and I go to bed early -- it's difficult for us to
> stay up that late.  For some reason, the police, our public servants,
> cannot start the night's list at 9 or 10 p.m. -- it has to be at 11,
> when the shift changes.  Apparently one shift can't leave a list for
> the next shift.
>
> One time a few years ago we had firewood delivered to our small
> parking space and we weren't able to get it stacked in the back yard
> in only one day.  We had to park on the street  one night.  The police
> person answering the phone gave us a hard time about it.
>
> -- Elva Mathiesen
>
> On 10/3/07, Maryanne Flanagan <meflan at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> To all concerned about parking cars overnight:
>
> Overnight guests may park their cars on the street overnight by calling
> the Providence Police Hdgts., stating that you have guests who need to
> park overnight, the location and car license number.
>
> I have done this often.  I usually attach a sign stating "Guest" and
> house address to the windshield.
>
> This seems simple enough.  I've never had a problem with being tagged.
>
> Try it.
>
> Maryanne Flanagan
>
>
>
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