I got a ticket, for parking my car on a side road near my apartment. The apartment complex where I live does not have enough parking space for people like me, I work from 1-9 pm. By the time I get home, all spaces in the lot are taken. So I park on the street. But there is a rule, in New Millford New Jersey, that you can’t park your car on the street between the hours of 2 am to 5 am, in the fall and winter months. Why? Because it MIGHT snow. The law is not that you cannot park there WHEN it is snowing. BUT, there is an exception. If you go online, you can register your car for the night and you don’t get a ticket. What the hell kind of logic is this?
I forgot to go online one night and register. So I got a ticket. I forgot to pay it, get a notice in the mail that if I don’t pay it within 15 days of the notice my driving privleges will be suspended. For one fucking parking ticket? I have tried 3 times to go online and pay it, only to get this message
*- We are performing system maintenance and the online payment is not available. Please try again later.
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Website only available during certain hours. 9-5 hours. What fucking website is not available all day long?
$100 extra a month for a garage, 50 yards or more from my apartment. Otherwise park where you can find a space. Not worth it. Otherwise, t’s a great apartment in a great location.
Shame. You shall write “I will not desecrate Arrested Development by shoehorning their lines into poorly thought out quips.” one hundred times. Without copy-paste.
The OP is incorrect about the law. Overnight parking is prohibited on all streets, at all times of year, except for Saturday Sunday and Holidays. It has nothing to do with snow.
It has everything to do with not wanting the streets to be used for car storage. The town is specifically structuring its laws to require off street storage for vehicles. You are trying to make nightly street parking work in a place where they don’t really want it to work. The town government wants you to make off street parking arrangements, like having your own garage or assigned parking space.
Don’t be surprised if they change the overnight parking request system to be even less favorable than it already is. My town now charges for the overnight passes.
I can understand this ( although I don’t live in a place with this type of rule). But what I don’t understand is having this rule without a corresponding requirement that the OP’s building must have an off-street space for each apartment - unless the issue is that the OPs building doesn’t have any rules and some apartments are using two or two spaces.
Sounds like a good reason to force apartment buildings to provide enough off-street parking for tenants instead of punishing the tenants because there’s not enough off-street parking available.