(1) Let’s remove ticketing for nights when there is no snow.

(2) I grew up where the snowfall was 95 inches a year on average and frequent snowfalls. There was never a parking ban or complaints about cars on the road. That solution was alternate parking. Even side even days, odd side odd days. It worked very well.

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

(4) I just moved back for a few months and it certainly does not make me want to stay! It’s a town full of families but if you have more than one car and no driveway, you’re not very welcome.

(5) Just have parking bans when snow is forecasted.

(6) 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.

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

(8) My preference would be to eliminate the ban 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.

(8) I support a parking ban during snow emergencies only.

(9) 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.

(10) 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.

(11) 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.

(12) 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.

(13) 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.

(14) Winchester should get rid of this old rule and let people park on the street unless snow is in the forecast.

(15) Residents should have the discretion to park on the street unless snow is in the forecast. This could be spelled out to modify whatever policy/ies currently exist.

(16) I have to say that I think the town culture around on-street parking is badly in need of an overhaul. On-street parking is good. It slows traffic and keeps streets safer. I get having parking bans during snow events. Beyond that, I do not understand how someone parking on the street overnight is a problem as long as they are parked legally. (not parked on a sidewalk, for example)

(17) With reduced parking requirements for new construction around train stations & downtown we’ll need a reformed ordinance, probably banning overnight parking only during snow storms.

(18) The parking ban is ridiculous. We have received warnings and tickets on perfectly clear fall evenings. Makes no sense why there is a parking ban when it is NOT snowing. Now that the town passed ADUs the parking ban really doesn’t make sense. 

(19) The police could do the responsible, equitable thing and only enforce it with snow or ice (that they’ll actually do something about) pending. They already don’t enforce it most of the year (and for some parts of the town, don’t enforce it ever), so they understand, full well and very appropriately, that they have discretion on the matter. So why are they so insistent on making many people’s days harder and more dangerous for no benefit whatsoever most of these winter nights?

(20) With no actual reason let’s restrict our constituents. Snowfall of course I understand it but any other time of year what is the problem?

(21) It’s a real hassle if you only have parking for one vehicle where you live (true of a number of multifamily properties in town), but some people don’t like seeing cars parked on the street at night so they call the PD regularly.

(22) …That the town meeting needs to change a rule from 1936 is a ridiculous excuse. The town manager, traffic/engineering, police, etc. do not need to enforce it! They (very appropriately) do not do so for several months per year, and – absent plowable snow that is actually going to be plowed – shouldn’t year-round.

(23) If my vehicle even conceivably prevents plowing, tow it on sight. Tow it to Tennessee for all I care, but don’t mess around. Get my car off the road, at my expense, immediately. Other than that the rule is otherworldly ridiculous and harmful.

(24) It must be magic how all the larger and busier municipalities I’ve lived in that allow overnight parking year-round except during snow bans have pulled it off successfully. But somehow Winchester is incapable of it…If you think ticketing me on a temperate, iceless, snowless night is required to prevent me from parking in a plowable snowstorm weeks or months later then please contact me further about the lovely bridge I have for sale.

(25) Ticketing starting in November for extremely rare events is absurd. I get it, [when] you have no need for street parking this isn’t an issue for you, so why not ticket? Who cares about the others in town, I guess???

(26) My least favorite thing about living in this town!! We don’t have a driveway either although our neighbors let us use theirs. I understand if it’s snowing but if no snow, cut the sh*t!!

(27) We live on a cul-de-sac that is the LAST plowed street in a snow storm. I agree there is really not a need for the November 1 to April 1 on street parking ban. We move cars to Jenks or neighbor’s driveways when it snows. 

(28) The police ticket regardless of the weather, even if it’s a perfectly temperate night without snow or ice, even before the first snowfall of the season, which does nothing for anyone but deprive my family of another $25

(29) Seems like many of us are unhappy about this – can’t we get a petition going and find a way to change this at another town meeting?

(30) It should be one side parking unless there is a storm. They need to be able to plow and people dont move their cars, it never works, but one side of the street parking will allow them to at least plow.

(31) It should be one side parking unless there is a storm. They need to be able to plow and people dont move their cars, it never works, but one side of the street parking will allow them to at least plow.