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New resident urges city for handicap parking near home; council and staff outline options
Summary
A new Passaic resident asked the council June 17 for help getting a handicap parking sign near her house; engineering and city staff described rules and enforcement steps and asked her to follow up with the engineering office.
A new resident told the Passaic City Council June 17 that she has a special‑needs child and needs a handicap parking designation near her home.
Wendy, who identified herself as a resident of Passaic for four months, described her child as “on the spectrum level 3” and “nonverbal” and said school buses that stop near her house sometimes go around stop signs, creating safety concerns. “It takes half a second to just look away if something could happen,” she said, describing instances when she needed to get her son to medical care quickly.
Mayor Hector C. Laura and staff…
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