We have received our normal complaints this year regarding winter parking restrictions. As was stated in the last issue of the Isantian, local newspaper and city website – winter parking restrictions start November 1st.
The question always arises – why is there winter parking restrictions on a 60 degree November day? The follow-up question is why not have “snow emergencies” when it actually snows. The main reason I have seen to answer these two questions is communications and cost. We do not have the benefit of metro cities that communicate their snow emergencies on network television. Even with this great communication tool there are still hundreds of people that end up getting towed.
That is where the cost comes in. A person that violates our City Ordinance gets a $20 ticket. A person that would get ticketed and towed during a snow emergency would end up paying hundreds of dollars. There is no perfect solution to this problem but the Council has asked the Police Committee to look into this issue and get input from Citizens on ideas that may improve this decades old ordinance.
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