Description
There is a Residential Parking Zone on this block of Lawrence Street. The City has issued parking permits to employees of Planned Parenthood, without consulting residents of the block, to allow them to park on the street. These sometimes numerous cars parked on both sides of the street create safety hazards for motorists and pedestrians alike because they block sight lines and narrow the width of the street for drivers, making it difficult or impossible for two cars to pass. There have been many near accidents at the intersection of Lawrence Street and Whitney Avenue because of this decreased width and the blocked sight lines. This is exacerbated by an uptick in speeding traffic on Lawrence Street since the institution of traffic calming on Edwards Street and will be further exacerbated by the aftermath of a significant snowfall.
14 Comments
City of New Haven (Verified Official)
Acknowledged Transportation, Traffic & Parking Department - Daytime Parking Enforcement Supervisor (Verified Official)
Lawrence Street Neighbor (Guest)
Another Lawrence Street Neighbor (Guest)
Closed Transportation, Traffic & Parking Department - Daytime Parking Enforcement Supervisor (Verified Official)
Reopened Lawrence Street Neighbor (Registered User)
Concerned citizen (Guest)
Contact the alder person.
jsedelstein (Guest)
ewg (Registered User)
Another Lawrence Street Neighbor (Guest)
Concerned citizen (Guest)
Lawrence Street Neighbor (Guest)
NH Resident (Registered User)
Can we get a ruling on the ordinance for RESIDENTIAL PARKING PERMITS from Traffic and Parking??
My understanding is they are for Residents -not businesses, churches, Government Officials or non-profits. How can Traffic and Parking allow this?
You should call your Alder and have them look into this. Pandora's Box may have been opened with this issue.
If Traffic and Parking does this for one business they have to do it for all businesses. Kind of defeats the purpose of Residential Parking Zones and the benefits of having such districts.
I'm sure Modern Pizza would like to get residential permits for Clark Street.
Closed Transportation, Traffic & Parking Department - Daytime Parking Enforcement Supervisor (Verified Official)