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ATTLEBORO, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) — The Attleboro City Council is set to vote on a proposal Tuesday night that would get rid of the city’s four-month winter parking ban.
The current ban goes into effect Dec. 1 and lasts until March 31. It prohibits residents from parking on city streets all winter long, even when there are no snow storms on the horizon.
“It made as much sense as a screen door on a submarine,” Attleboro Police Chief Kyle Heagney said. He is leading the efforts to eliminate the decades-old ban.
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Heagney said with today’s technology, forecasters can pinpoint a storm’s arrive, and it would be much easier to implement a temporary ban for impending storms.
“We’ll enforce it in a reasonable manor, [and put] the snow ban in effect prior to the snowstorms coming and get adequate notification out,” Chief Heagney said. “Other cities and towns do it. We’re not reinventing the wheel, we’re just trying to be more reasonable.”
Heagney believes it is a burden for residents in triple-deckers and apartments who rely on street parking to have to find alternative parking all winter long.
WBZ NewsRadio's Kim Tunnicliffe (@KimWBZ) reports:
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