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Ordinance Committee weighs shrinking parking advisory board, asks legal and police for more data on fines
Summary
The committee considered a proposal to convert the large parking advisory board into a smaller, staff-heavy working group and discussed raising fines for driveway/blocking and intersection violations; Kate Krogmeyer and councilors emphasized staffing, quorum problems and the need for HPD and solicitor input before action.
The Ordinance Committee debated two interrelated parking matters on March 4: a proposed overhaul to the Parking Advisory Board’s membership and a package of orders to raise fines for blocking driveways, crosswalks and intersections.
Kate Krogmeyer, a member of the Parking Advisory Board and the Planning Board, told the panel the advisory body often struggles to achieve quorum and has limited capacity. Krogmeyer said the board devised recommendations to reduce membership and shift day-to-day operational responsibility to city staff — for example, the chief of police (or designee), the city engineer (or designee), the superintendent of public works (or designee), the tax collector or designee, plus one public member — and to designate an existing staff…
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