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Clifton Heights residents press council for overnight residential parking permits, clearer enforcement
Summary
At the borough council meeting, residents raised repeated concerns about a new pay-period and permit system that they say lets nonresidents occupy neighborhood street parking overnight and has produced inconsistent ticketing.
Christie Burns, a Clifton Heights resident, told the borough council during public participation that recent changes to the parking-permit program have left residents without access to overnight street parking and confused about enforcement.
"I thought you were letting us park there from 9 to 9," Burns said, describing notices residents received; she said she and neighbors later learned the posted hours were a pay period that applies to people without permits. Burns asked whether residents could get an overnight residential permit and said nonresidents attending events at nearby businesses and the Legion take neighborhood spaces late into the night.
The issue drew a second public comment from David Volpe of 19 North Springfield Road, who described long-standing neighborhood congestion and said the…
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