> Dean Lindberg > Minnehaha wrote: > Not less than 10 minutes later, a parking patrol officer rounded the > corner and started ticketing cars parked on the *east* side of my > street. I was able to alert my next door neighbor because he happened > to be home at that time and was blowing out the driveway of his elderly > neighbor. Luckily, he was able to move his truck (that he had parked in > front while he blew his driveway) and avoided a ticket. > > At least 6 other neighbors on my street weren't so lucky. When they > left for work in the morning their cars were parked on the proper (east) > side of the street for snowplowing. But before they got home in the > evening, those same cars were on the wrong (east, again) side, and > ticketed to boot!
Is your street a snow emergency route? If not, then is the "east" side of the street where the odd numbered buildings are found? ASSUMING "east" is the odd side as is most of south Minneapolis then your neighbors were parked illegally as of 8AM this morning (Wednesday). Tomorrow (Thursday) it will be illegal to park on the EVEN or "west" side of the street from 8AM until 8PM or until the street has been plowed. This info can be found at the official city snow emergency parking site: http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/snow/parking-info.asp . If you are correct and they were parked on the EVEN side of the street then the parking officer was wrong and they can argue the tickets with the Violations Bureau downtown. Hope this helps. Steven M Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
