#Somerville parking registration#
His car is registered to his home in Topsfield, Mass., and he said changing its registration to Somerville - designated by his insurance company as an urban area - would raise his payments by several hundred dollars. He lives on Sunset Road in Somerville, already designated permit parking, and said changing his insurance would result in drastically higher fees. “And then students can park anywhere they want throughout the city and not worry about getting a ticket or finding a street that’s not permit parking.”
“It’s not very expensive and they’re legally parked on the street,” she said. Still, she added, there are some positive aspects to registering cars in Somerville. “I think that we should be thoughtful about the policies that we enact in the city and make sure that they’re responses to the needs of each neighborhood,” Gerwitz told the Daily. “Somerville was dealing with a situation in which parking - which had always been a scarce and valued community resource - was coming under even greater stress, and therefore it made sense to alter the longstanding parking regulations,” Champion told the Daily.īut the universal nature of the new policy poses problems, Somerville Alderman Rebekah Gewirtz said, as not all neighborhoods see high demand for street parking. The policy will seemingly not apply to streets running through campus, as the university administers parking regulations in school lots and streets. Streets near Tufts affected by the change include College Avenue from Powder House Square to Morrison Avenue and Boston Avenue from Pearson Avenue to Broadway. Two thirds of residential streets already fall under permit restrictions, according to Champion. The new policy is a response to too little money and too few open parking spaces, according to City of Somerville spokesman Tom Champion. Cars often remain on family insurance plans and are registered to students’ homes away from Tufts during the students’ one or two years off campus in the vicinity of Tufts’ Medford/Somerville campus. Students often do not register their cars in the city because doing so can result in large increases in their vehicle insurance payments. “The problem is that many Tufts students don’t have their cars registered in Somerville,” Somerville Alderman Walter Pero told the Daily. To receive a resident permit - renewable annually - a car must be registered in the city. This highlights a problem unique to Jumbos who don’t live on the Hill.
#Somerville parking free#
In an attempt to simultaneously raise money to balance a budget deficit and free up crowded parking spaces, the new policy would require all non-commercial vehicles parked on Somerville’s residential streets to have a resident parking permit or visitor pass. The City of Somerville plans to implement a new policy requiring parking permits for all vehicles parked on residential streets in the city, complicating an already difficult parking situation for many Tufts students living off campus.
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