Buffalo, NY (WBEN) With little to no sign of accumulating snow in the short-term forecast, a number of communities are pushing back the usual start of winter overnight parking rules. Two communities are holding off until December 1st.
Town of Tonawanda Supervisor Joe Emminger says last year the town shrunk the period by a month, now starting normally on November 15th going through March 15th. This year, he says the town and Village of Kenmore will wait until December 1st to ticket cars parked on streets overnight. “The weather forecast for the next couple of weeks looks good. So we decided to go ahead let the people enjoy their Thanksgiving holiday weekend with not having to worry about company and parking overnight,” says Emminger.
He says consultations take place with the building and highway departments in determining when to push back the date as well as the weather. Emminger says he’s willing to one day change those rules. “I’d love to say that we can lift them and just use our mass communication tool to get the message out when we do want cars off the street, but we just don’t have enough residents registered for that yet, so we still have to have a local law that that comes into play here, but hopefully someday we’ll be able to lift it entirely during the winter, because usually there’s only a couple storms that usually it comes into play where we need to get the cars off the off the street,” says Emminger…