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Residents urge changes after late-night snow towing and aggressive enforcement
Summary
Multiple Allentown residents told the city council that overnight snow removal tactics and Parking Authority enforcement have forced vulnerable neighbors to sit in cars for hours and face costly tickets and tows; council scheduled follow-ups with the Parking Authority and Public Works.
Dozens of residents used the council’s public-comment period to describe what they called aggressive, confusing and harmful snow-removal and parking-enforcement practices that played out overnight in multiple neighborhoods.
The complaints began when Enid Santiago (1243 South Jefferson Street) said snow has left residents unable to park and that the Parking Authority’s practice of treating marked cars as subject to towing after three days has produced ‘‘targeted harassment of poverty,’’ particularly in neighborhoods without driveways.
Mikayla Bell, who proposed a voluntary landlord program on housing affordability,…
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