One easy solution to this problem is to have a parking enforcement officer run the route together with the street sweeping vehicle, perhaps a block in advance of the machine. This would ensure that only routes that are being swept will be ticketed and only vehicles that are actually blocking the sweeper will get tickets. I’ve heard that other cities do it that way and also I remember when I lived in Boston that’s how they did it there. The city put up the web site to notify people of relaxed enforcement but established no internal protocol to advise Parking Enforcement of the relaxed enforcement routes. It is very likely that in spite of the stated policy of relaxed enforcement when no street sweeping takes place, there has been no curtailment of the issuance of tickets. We have continued to receive many complaints of tickets being issued when the street sweeper does not show up. I would like to know what the exact system (if any) has existed for communicating the relaxed enforcement to Parking Enforcement and how that is distributed to the appropriate officers. If there has been no system, I want to know how it is possible that the Mayor would establish such a policy without any actual plan or design for implementation. This seems like a serious competency issue. I did quite a bit of research on this and found that there are cities, such as Dallas, which have street sweeping only in the central business districts and none in residential districts. Street gutters are swept by the property owner. The Clean Water Act provides for this method as an option and it is compliant with the law. Of course, the city can issue a fine to property owners which fail to comply.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 06:40:18 +0000
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