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Someone at the City of New Haven thinks it's okay to provide <24 hours notice to move cars in even-side street parking spaces. After posting notices around midday Thursday, cars were towed from the even side of Winchester Avenue in the early morning hours on Friday. No EONP for Winchester Ave was posted on this web site (based on my search for "EONP + Winchester").
I guarantee that if the department in charge of posting EONP signs had to pay even 1/3 of the same-day retrieval costs for every car towed -- out of its own departmental budget -- they'd be infinitely more conscientious about providing ample notice to residents before seizing their primary means of transportation and holding them hostage on the other side of town for large sums of money.
This one's for the Board of Alders: Let's institute a towing cost-sharing policy policy ASAP, or at the very least mandate 24 or even 48 hours' notice. <24 hours' notice is unacceptable.
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Frustrated Citizen (Guest)
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Doug Hausladen (Registered User)
Thank you for the post. We strive for as great a notice as possible, and have asked our corporation counsel to look into any statutory requirement. I have heard (and am searching) of a memo from a previous DPW director some 15 years back that states a minimum time.
We encourage more voices in this process. Please let your Alders know how you feel.
Official notice is provided by the signs on the street. We add the other channels to do more - clearly we can do better and must do better. Please post any ideas you have - we will soon have a virtual suggestion box on our website for year-round idea collection.
Closed Department of Transportation, Traffic and Parking (Registered User)