Plan floated to make residents pay to park on street
An email newsletter in the Oxford Triangle has
reported that plans are afoot to charge residents $15 per car to park overnight
in front of their homes. Each resident would be required to buy a permit for the
privilege of not getting a ticket while they slept. The “Triangle
Update” further reports that Councilman Bill Rosendahl has endorsed the
scheme, called an OPD or Overnight Parking District.
One wonders how the enforcement will be
handled and how it will be funded. Will parking attendants be patrolling our
streets in the dead of night? Will they be on overtime pay? Or will enforcement
be selective with camper vans getting tickets and passenger cars being passed
by?
And what will happen when Mom and
Pop drive in from Phoenix to spend a week? How much will their guest pass cost,
and how long will it take to arrive? Seems like a de facto curfew since everyone
will have to be in their own homes with no late night guests unless you want to
risk having the police tuck a no parking ticket under your friends’
wipers.
Posted: Wed - March 1, 2006 at 04:43 AM