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Freehold Council limits overnight parking in front of residences
Residents are reminded that their garage and/or driveway is the appropriate place to keep your car. Please remember that the parking limit in Freehold is 72 hours (that's three days). Street parking is not where you are supposed to keep your cars that you are not driving.
Freehold City Council limits overnight parking in front of residences
04:20 PM CST on Tuesday, May 13, 2009
By JAN McCANN / The Freehold Daily News
jmccann@freeholdnews.com Parking in front of your neighbor’s house overnight is now against the law in Freehold.
City Council members on Monday night approved rules that limit parking on streets. Only people who live in or are visiting a home may park in front of it from 2 to 8 a.m. Residents or guests who park elsewhere can receive a citation, with a fine of up to $500.
City officials say they’ll only enforce the ordinance if they receive complaints.
Council members said there is a problem with the number of cars parked on streets, which inconvenience residents and create safety hazards. But not all agreed that the new ordinance was the best solution. It was approved 5-2, with Don Alliston and James Stewart voting against it.
“I’m not sure this gets us where we want to be,” Mr. Alliston said. “I’d sure like to get the cars off the streets.”
Mayor Mitch Mitchell said the ordinance should solve many of the problems that council members hear about, primarily that neighbors’ cars make it impossible for residents and their guests to find on-street parking.
This new parking policy is going to be a big relief to Freehold resident Martha Miller:
"I'm so glad that the city council listened to my complaints. I wish that it hadn't come to this, but my neighbor Bill E. drove me to it. I couldn't even park in front of my own house because my neighbor would park there to avoid the tree sap that dripped onto his car. Some days there were no other parking spaces and I was forced to park in front of HIS house under HIS messy tree. After seven years of complaining and parking under his tree I just got fed up and contacted my council member (Bud Smith Jr.) who helped write this ordinance and get it inacted.
The neighbor Bill E. was given a chance to respond, but only issued this statement, "The street's public property and anyone can park there. That old goosestepper is always complaining about something. I'm afraid to guess what she's going to complain about next."
04:20 PM CST on Tuesday, May 13, 2009
By JAN McCANN / The Freehold Daily News
jmccann@freeholdnews.com Parking in front of your neighbor’s house overnight is now against the law in Freehold.
City Council members on Monday night approved rules that limit parking on streets. Only people who live in or are visiting a home may park in front of it from 2 to 8 a.m. Residents or guests who park elsewhere can receive a citation, with a fine of up to $500.
City officials say they’ll only enforce the ordinance if they receive complaints.
Council members said there is a problem with the number of cars parked on streets, which inconvenience residents and create safety hazards. But not all agreed that the new ordinance was the best solution. It was approved 5-2, with Don Alliston and James Stewart voting against it.
“I’m not sure this gets us where we want to be,” Mr. Alliston said. “I’d sure like to get the cars off the streets.”
Mayor Mitch Mitchell said the ordinance should solve many of the problems that council members hear about, primarily that neighbors’ cars make it impossible for residents and their guests to find on-street parking.
This new parking policy is going to be a big relief to Freehold resident Martha Miller:
"I'm so glad that the city council listened to my complaints. I wish that it hadn't come to this, but my neighbor Bill E. drove me to it. I couldn't even park in front of my own house because my neighbor would park there to avoid the tree sap that dripped onto his car. Some days there were no other parking spaces and I was forced to park in front of HIS house under HIS messy tree. After seven years of complaining and parking under his tree I just got fed up and contacted my council member (Bud Smith Jr.) who helped write this ordinance and get it inacted.
The neighbor Bill E. was given a chance to respond, but only issued this statement, "The street's public property and anyone can park there. That old goosestepper is always complaining about something. I'm afraid to guess what she's going to complain about next."
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