Board of Aldermen 10-12-2021 Page 10
Alderman Jette
Thank you. | read Director Cummings’ communication was being a request that this conversation begin
and he’s planning on coming to the Infrastructure Committee. So | don't think we — we have nothing before us
to act on tonight. If it’s in order, | would move that we refer this to the Infrastructure Committee.
President Wilshire
That's in order. Okay.
Alderwoman Lu
Thank you.
President Wilshire
We're going to refer this to the other committee so.
Alderwoman Lu
| just wanted a clarification about these zones that Alderwoman Klee has described. Are those not the zones
where you pay a different amount of...no, that's not - it's not zones for prices per hour of parking?
Alderman Klee
| apologize for shaking my head Alderwoman Lu. No it's overnight parking zones. So in other words, for
instance, when | was looking at the French Hill area and | was looking at Locke and Whitney, and | kind of made
this very long, trying | mean, rectangle, and | said that would be too far for a mother with a baby to have to go all
the way to the end by Chandler if she lived over by Orange Street. So | said we would take that and create a
block. That would be a zone.
Alderwoman Lu
Okay | see.
Alderman Klee
So right now the way that the overnight parking works is if you get an overnight parking permit and you live on
West Hollis, you could park over on Locke Street or Whitney. What this would do is you would have a parking
permit or your zone not anywhere in the city, which is what it is now. So perhaps in my area, maybe going from
Pennichuck to Brinton that might be too big too so we might have to make smaller bites of it. But it would be
talking to those neighbors. Do you want it? As Alderman Lopez had mentioned, you may take one street and
only 25% of the people want it. So you'll look okay 25% of the people want to hear, can we create parking? No
one is guaranteed a parking space in front of their home because that would be illegal. But we could maybe
guarantee them a parking within that zone. So if 20 people want it, can we find 20 parking spaces? No, we can
only find 10, then it might be a lottery. We'd have to figure out how 20 people will get down to 10 people. Those
are all the little things that we have to work out.
Alderwoman Lu
Thank you. That's the zone. Okay. Thank you.
Alderman Klee
You're welcome.
