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Table 3: Existing Regulations Pertaining to Overnight Parking in Communities Studied
City: Nashua Albany Ann Arbor Concord Concord Manchester Mendian Portland Portsmouth Rochester West Hartford
State: AH NY MI NC NH NH Ip ME NH MN cT
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O.P. Prohibition Yes No! No No No* No* No No”* No No™ Yes
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OP. Permit Only Yes No? No No No No No ves” No |! No Yes ™
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By RPP Only No Yes" Yes‘ No Yes Yes” No ves |! ves ‘4 Yes” No
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No OP Regulations No Yes! Yes No No* No® ves No" No? No No
Noles:
1, On-street parking in dawntown Albany is free from $:00 pm te 8-00 am the following day on weekdays and all day on weekends and Solidays
2. Apermitis required to park overnight in Albany Parking Authority off-street fac littes
3. Albany has established several RPPs to regulate parking in residential nexghborhoods in effect from £:00 am te 6.00 pm, weekdays
4, in RPP Zones, there it a 2-hour time limit on vehicles withoul a APP
§. Overnight parking is allowed on most public streets under normal circumstances, but no vehicle can be parked in the same space fet more than 48 consecutive hours.
6. Overnight parking is allowed on most public streets under normal circumstances for private vehicles, bul prohibited for commercial vehicles between midnight and 5:00 AM
7. RPP rones are designated by the Mayor and Board of Alderman.
8, The city has established an "“Odd/Even" palicy between December | and Apri) 15.
9. Portland does not ban overnight parking, but has a lex and ictive set of regul for allowing ight parking on public streets
10. See Nowe #9 above. These restrictions include allowing for over might parking on alternating sides of the street en different districts
11. Portland has 12 defined RPP Zones, all defined by City Council.
12. AS noted previously, Portland has a elaborate set of regulations defining under what conditions overnight parking is allowed
13. Parking in any free areas is limited to 72 hours maximum, Metered areas are enforced from 9am to 3pm, with an escalation rate swuclure aber 3 hours.
14. Portsmouth piloted their Neighborhood Parking Program (NPP}in 2018-2019 and is working an expanding it wilh revisions.
15. Onily very selected areas are subject to no regulation on overnight parking.
16. Rochester has an alternate side of the street regulation in places from October 1 10 May 1 every year between 2am and Jpn.
17. Rochester has 14 distinct Residential Parking Permit areas
18. Under special circumstances, the City will grant very limited overnight parking passes ("Omit Tags") to individuals demonstrating temporary hie.
In addition to Nashua, Portland, Maine and West Hartford both had programs which allowed for overnight
parking on public streets within the framework of a permit. West Hartford’s program offered only
temporary permits for those applicants demonstrating need criteria as well as residency; the permits were
referred to as “Omit Tags” because they instructed patrolling parking officers to ‘omit’ the holder from
sanction as long as the permit was in effect. Applicants for these permits could apply for them virtually
via web portal on the City of West Hartford’s website and qualified recipients did not receive a credential
but had their vehicle license plate added to the City’s “do not cite” fist.
Portland, Maine offered permanent permits for overnight in nine defined zones across the city within an
elaborately structured program. Under this program, and depending on the zone, participants were
required to park on either the odd or even side of the street during certain prescribed hours of particular
days during the month, leaving the other side of the street open for snow removal and street
maintenance. In all but one of the zones, these requirements were in place from October 1 through May
31 each year; in the ninth zone, they were in effect the year round. No vehicle without a permit was
allowed to park overnight in these areas. The requirement to clear certain sides of the street on certain
days was in effect in most zones 11:30 PM or 12:00 AM to 7:00 AM the following day, with the exception
of one area where prohibitions were in effect from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM on certain days. It should be
noted that these permits did NOT allow holders to park on-street during snow emergencies when all
vehicles were required to clear public roadways.
Seven of the ten communities studied had some form of Residential Parking Permit (RPP) program in
place. While Albany, New York did not have a prohibition to overnight parking on downtown streets, it
has established three different RPP zones in neighborhoods abutting downtown which restrict parking on
the street to RPP holders only from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM on weekdays. The requirement for permits during
overnight hours and weekends was not in effect for these zones. Ann Arbor, Michigan inversely allows for
overnight parking in downtown streets without a permit, but requires a permit in eight neighborhoods to
park on street at any time. In these zones, non-permit holders may only park up to two hours without
being ticketed.
