Although I am closing this issue, we will continue to work on it, We have issue citations to all those that were found in violation.

I would like to hear from the new strategy is from City Hall and the Parking department about how to improve the residential permit system to limit the abuse of visitor tags. Without a real plan, this just sounds like a half-hearted attempt at enforcement that is doomed to allow the situation to continue forever.
I know that other residents would like to hear how the current system is going to be improved. We see things like construction workers parking every day using visitor tags for months on end, even when they have been identified on SCF, residents who year after year use visitor tags on their cars and never share in the tax burden that we "townies" pay, out-of-state cars with annual resident stickers (now THAT'S a good one--why does someone get resident privileges when their license identifies them as a NON-resident??), cars with more than one annual resident sticker (how can you be a resident of TWO different zones in the same city?), and annual stickers issued to people who live NEAR, but not IN the residential zone (keep in mind that a three-family house with 6 drivers can occupy 50% of a small street's parking capacity on sweeping or snow days, like happens Tilton, Woodland, and Compton Streets).
This is a constant, frustrating, and wearing quality-of-life issue for city residents who have to have cars for work, and do not have off-street parking.

Thank you for your post. An officer has been dispatched to investigate.

Thank you for the post. We sent an officer through zone 7 tonight and have been making daily passes throughout the zone.