Deskripsyon
Once again, it's sweeping day, and there are tons of cars with visitor tags taking up most of the spaces. Many of these are residents who rent and I've here, but don't want to register their cars here and pay taxes. I have been paying my vehicle taxes in New Haven for years, and it's just not fair that it seems to be optional for many people.
Many use the excuse that they are students, and don't intend to be around for more than two, three, or six years.
Even the city's own website does not make it clear that the exception the state gives to fulltime students not to have to get CT driver's licenses does NOT apply when someone wants resident parking privileges. At that point, even the students have to register their cars here, and pay their taxes like the rest of us.
It is unacceptable that New Haven does not monitor this, and allows people to park for years with visitor tags, and allows this unfair system of only some of us stuck paying taxes. I am sick of having to compete for.parking with people who won't accept their responsibility to pay their share.
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Kinilala Transportation, Traffic & Parking Department - Daytime Parking Enforcement Supervisor (Beripikadong Opisiyal)
Isinara Transportation, Traffic & Parking Department - Daytime Parking Enforcement Supervisor (Beripikadong Opisiyal)
Reopened SallyQ (Rehistradong User)
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.
Kinilala Transportation, Traffic & Parking Department - Daytime Parking Enforcement Supervisor (Beripikadong Opisiyal)
Isinara Manager of Operations, Process Improvement - Transportation, Traffic, & Parking (Beripikadong Opisiyal)