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Feedback From the Community

Here are comments from Winchester residents (January 2024):

Just have parking bans when snow is forecasted.

In the interim [until the ban is eliminated], the police need to have a moratorium on issuing tickets for residents parked in front of their homes. It’s ludicrous that we should be paying a ticket for parking on the street in front of our house, particularly when there are no “no parking” signs on the road.

The ban should totally only exist if it’s actually snowing and they need to plow!

Residents should be able to park in front of their own houses, unless there is snow storm expected.

Remove ticketing for nights when there is no snow

My preference would be to eliminate it entirely except in snow emergencies. I think that is how it was when I lived in Boston – the city would declare a snow emergency and we had a certain numbers of hours to get our car off the street.

Support a parking ban during snow emergencies only

We all know when snow is coming. Tickets for cars that don’t move for plows are acceptable. But ticketing cars when there is no snow is just pointless. Moreover, the police are targeting one block in particular! It’s unfair.

Some people only have one parking spot, and usually those are the people who own or rents condos. I don’t think Winchester should make their life harder: they have no other choice. At least they should have resident permits. That is the fair thing to do.

What if people who needed on street parking (regardless of hardship) could apply for a permit? They could get one on an as needed basis. Online system, generated automatically like the apps we use to pay the Boston parking meters. It feels unfair to target multi family homes with small or non existent driveways so we need to find options. Jenks is not a good option, you need to get a ride home when you drop your car off. Not everyone has that luxury.

According to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the biggest obstacle to change is not the people who actively resist change…
…but the silent majority who are unaffected by the situation and resent those people who “rock the boat” in their efforts to seek fairness and justice.