[Amended 12-13-1988]
The following words, terms and phrases, when
used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in
this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different
meaning:
A home, apartment or living quarters of a resident of a particular
parking permit area of the City, as established by proof of real estate
tax bill, lease, rental agreement, etc., but not including college
dormitories, motels, hotels and other such transitory quarters.
A vehicle that is registered under MGL c. 90 at an established
address within a particular parking permit area of the City and on
which vehicle a motor vehicle excise tax is paid to the City under
the laws of the commonwealth.
A person who resides within or owns a place of business within
a particular parking permit area of the City at an established address
therein.
The purpose of this article is to reduce hazardous
traffic conditions within the City by the haphazard parking of vehicles
in various areas within the City, including residential areas, and
to:
A.
Protect the various areas of the City from polluted
air, excessive noise, and trash caused by the unregulated parking
of such vehicles;
B.
Protect the residents of the various areas from unreasonable
burden in gaining access to their residences;
C.
Preserve the character of the various residential
areas;
D.
Promote efficiency in the maintenance of the streets
in the various areas in a clean and safe condition;
E.
Preserve the value of the property in those various
areas;
F.
Preserve the safety of children and other pedestrians
and traffic safety;
G.
Ensure immediate access by public safety and emergency
vehicles at all times; and
H.
Preserve the peace, good order, comfort, convenience
and welfare of the inhabitants of the City.
[Amended 12-13-1988]
There are hereby established particular residential
parking permit areas within the City. Parking of vehicles on the streets
of a particular residential parking permit area is prohibited as herein
prescribed except when the vehicle displays a particular area residential
parking permit sticker or a particular area visitor parking sticker,
affixed as established under this article.
[Amended 12-13-1988]
A.
Any resident of a particular residential parking permit
area of the City whose vehicle is principally garaged within said
area of the City shall be eligible to be issued an area residential
parking permit sticker for such vehicle for said particular residential
parking permit area.
B.
Each household of a particular residential parking
permit area of the City is eligible to be issued visitor parking permits
to be affixed to the vehicle of guests or visitors of such household.
C.
Area residential parking permit stickers and a visitor
area parking permit shall be issued and administered by the City Parking
Clerk at the City Hall.
D.
Vehicles registered outside the commonwealth but operated
by a student enrolled in a college or school within the City and on
which vehicle a statement in compliance with MGL c. 90, § 3
has been issued by the Police Department of the City shall also be
eligible to receive an area residential parking permit sticker, provided
that such student is also a resident of the particular permit parking
area of the City.
E.
Area residential parking permit stickers shall be
issued by the Parking Clerk in one or more colors designating thereby
a particular residential parking permit area within the City. Residential
parking permit stickers shall be affixed to vehicles as directed by
the Parking Clerk.
[Amended 12-13-1988]
There shall be no parking of any vehicle on
the following streets, known as the "Pawtucketville residential parking
area," during the hours of 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. (except Saturdays,
Sundays and holidays) unless such vehicle displays a Pawtucketville
residential parking sticker or visitor parking sticker for the Pawtucketville
area attached to the vehicle as directed by the Parking Clerk:
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Alma Street
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Avon Street, from Fourth Avenue to White Street
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Bodwell Avenue
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Colonial Avenue (from Standish to Riverside)
[Added 3-28-1989] |
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Crawford Street, from Fourth Avenue to Gershom
Avenue
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Dracut Street, from Fourth Avenue to White Street
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Emery Avenue, from Riverside Street to Fourth
Avenue
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Endicott Street, from White Street to Fourth
Avenue
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Fourth Avenue[1]
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Gardner Avenue
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Gershom Avenue
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Gershom Terrace
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Gilmore Street, from Riverside Street to Fourth
Avenue
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Harlem Street, beginning on the westerly line
of Riverside Street and running westerly 940 feet, plus or minus,
to the Lowell/Dracut town line
[Added 4-21-1992] |
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Lafayette Street
[Added 9-25-2018] |
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Mammoth Road, from Second Avenue to Fourth Avenue
[Added 3-28-1989] |
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Martin Street, from Riverside Street to Rosemont
Street
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Mt. Hope Street, from Fourth Avenue to Colonial
Avenue[2]
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Phoebe Avenue
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Plymouth Street
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Riverside Street
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Riverside Street, east side and west side, running
northerly from the south side of Harlem Street 505 feet, plus or minus,
to the Lowell/Dracut town line
[Added 4-21-1992] |
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Rosemont Street
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Sarah Avenue
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Second Avenue
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Sparks Street, from Conduit Street to Fourth
Avenue
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Third Avenue
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University Avenue, from Gershom Avenue to Fourth
Avenue
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Vaughan Avenue
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White Street[3]
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Woodcock Street, from White Street to Gershom
Avenue
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[1]
Editor's Note: An ordinance adopted 7-23-1991
deleted an entry for Fourth Avenue between Avon Street and Mt. Hope
Street.
[2]
Editor's Note: An ordinance adopted 7-23-1991
deleted an entry for Mt. Hope Street between Fourth Avenue and White
Street.
[3]
Editor's Note: An ordinance adopted 7-23-1991
deleted an entry for White Street between Mt. Hope Street and Avon
Street.
[Added 7-10-2001]
There shall be no parking of any vehicle on
the following streets, known as the "West Pawtucketville residential
parking permit area," during the hours of 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
unless such vehicle displays a West Pawtucketville residential parking
sticker or visitor parking sticker for the West Pawtucketville area
attached to the vehicle as directed by the Parking Clerk:
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Avalon Avenue
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Malden Avenue
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Melrose Avenue
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Shirley Avenue
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Stockbridge Avenue
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Townsend Avenue
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[Amended 12-13-1988]
There shall be no parking of any vehicle on
the following streets, known as the "Acre/Highlands residential parking
area," unless such vehicle displays an Acre/Highlands residential
parking sticker or visitor parking sticker for the Acre/Highlands
area attached to the vehicle as directed by the Parking Clerk:
A.
Between
the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m., except Saturdays, Sundays and
holidays:
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Arlington Street, from Pawtucket Street to Bowers
Street
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Bachelder Street
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Bertha Street
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Bowers Street
[Added 3-28-1989] |
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Broadway Street, from Madonna Circle to Walker
Street
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Broadway Street, between Walker and Wilder Streets
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Burlington Avenue
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Columbus Avenue
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Dane Avenue
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Dane Street
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Fletcher Street (from Bowers to Pawtucket)
[Added 3-28-1989] |
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Gage Avenue
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Gage Street
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Hampton Street
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Litchfield Terrace
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Lund Avenue
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Marginal Street
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Mt. Vernon Street, from Pawtucket Street to Varney Street
[Added 1-4-2011; amended 9-25-2018] |
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Mt. Washington Street, from Pawtucket Street
to Varney Street
[Amended 9-25-2018] |
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Pawtucket Street (from Wilder to Fletcher)
[Added 3-28-1989] |
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Ready Avenue
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Riverwalk Way, northwest side, entire length from Perkins Street
to condominium parking lot
[Added 3-26-2013] |
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Riverwalk Way, southeast side, from Perkins Street to Lawrence
Drive
[Added 7-9-2013] |
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Rockdale Avenue
[Added 3-28-1989] |
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Salem Street (from Hancock to Pawtucket)
[Added 3-28-1989] |
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Schafer Avenue
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Schafer Street
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School Street (from West Bowers to O'Donnell
Bridge)
[Added 3-28-1989] |
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Varney Street
[Added 9-25-2018] |
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Walker Street, from Middlesex to Pawtucket
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Wannalancit Street
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Waugh Street
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Whiting Street
[Added 9-25-2018] |
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West Adams Street
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West Bowers Street
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Wilder Street (from Middlesex to Pawtucket)
[Added 3-28-1989] |
B.
Between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. Monday through Friday
and all day on weekends:
[Added 4-16-2013]
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Name of Street
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Side
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Location
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Perkins Street
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North
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From Aiken Street to Suffolk Street
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Perkins Street
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South
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From Aiken Street to Cabot Street
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[Amended 12-13-1988; 3-28-1989; 2-27-1990; 10-27-1998; 12-10-2002]
A.
The on-street parking of vehicles in the South End (Back Central Neighborhood), as that area is defined in § 266-85 of this chapter, as amended by ordinance passed on October 27, 1998, shall hereafter be on a first-come, first-served basis, and residential permit parking is hereby eliminated and is no longer applicable in said area. Nothing hereinafter shall alter or modify any currently existing normal parking regulations (e.g., parking only on one side of street, etc.) which remain in full force and effect in the area.
B.
Reserved dwelling parking spaces, commonly referred to as "placard parking," in said South End (Back Central Neighborhood), which are provided for under § 266-85 of this chapter, as said section was amended by ordinance passed by the City Council on September 10, 2002, shall remain in effect in said area.
Parking in all other residential parking permit
areas as may be hereafter established by the City Council shall be
regulated as ordained by the Council.
[Added 6-27-1989; amended 10-27-1998; 9-10-2002; 6-12-2012]
A.
Each single, two-family or multiple dwelling house with frontage
on a street or way within the City of Lowell shall have one parking
space on said street in front of said dwelling house reserved for
the parking of a vehicle for use by the residents of said dwelling
house. Said reserved parking spot shall be identified by the use of
above-grade signs issued by the City of Lowell bearing the words "Parking
Space Reserved for Residents of Dwelling."
B.
Said signs shall be provided by the City of Lowell upon payment of
applicable fees and shall be individually numbered.
C.
Signs issued under this section shall expire on the last day of the
month one year from the date of issuance of the sign unless renewed
in accordance with any applicable procedures and fees. Said signs
shall include provisions to affix a sticker or decal indicating the
month and year of expiration.
D.
Said signs shall reserve an on-street parallel parking space of standard
width centered on the location of the sign and running 20 feet zero
inches along the curbline or edge of the roadway.
E.
Said signs may be located along any lot frontage, as defined in Article II of Chapter 290, of the property containing the dwelling house for whose residents the parking is reserved, provided that:
(1)
Said signs are securely affixed to a fence, post, or other legal
exterior location visible to motorists from the street or way and
from the parking space designated by the sign. Signs may not be placed
inside a building.
(2)
The parking space designated as reserved under this section must
be in a location where on-street parallel parking is legal under the
General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and this Code of
Ordinances. The designation of a parking space as reserved under this
section shall not supersede any other applicable section of this Code.
(3)
Parking spaces designated as reserved under this section shall be
located in such a manner as to maximize remaining unreserved public
on-street parking available to other motorists.
(4)
The property containing the dwelling house for whose residents the
parking is reserved has at least 20 feet zero inches of legal lot
frontage.
(5)
No more than one parking space may be reserved for any individual
parcel under the provisions of this section regardless of the number
of buildings or dwelling units on the parcel or the number of streets
or ways that the parcel has frontage on.
F.
This section is applicable in all areas of the City, including residential
permit parking areas.
G.
A reserved dwelling parking space in the South End (Back Central
Neighborhood) shall be permitted, and placard issued therefor, only
if the dwelling house does not have:
H.
Effective six months following the effective date of this amended section by the Lowell City Council, any issued and outstanding permits/placards for such dwelling houses which have reserved parking space(s) under § 266-85 prior to the effective date of this amended section shall be canceled and revoked. All holders of outstanding permits/placards issued under § 266-85 prior to the effective date of this amended section shall be entitled to obtain new signs subject to the requirements of this section. Notice of the amended section and requirements and the cancellation of outstanding permits/placards shall be sent via United States Mail to all permitholders whose addresses are on file in the office of the Building Commissioner within 30 days of the effective date of this amended section.
J.
Fees for signs and decals or stickers under this section shall be
charged as established by the Lowell City Council. Fees shall be established
to cover the costs to produce the signs and stickers or decals and
the costs to administer this section.
[Amended 12-13-1988; 3-28-1989; 10-27-1998; 12-23-2008]
A.
Parking without a valid residential parking permit sticker or visitor parking permit or otherwise in violation of this Article VI shall be punished by a fine of $25 for the first offense and $50 for the second and any subsequent offense. Vehicles parked in violation of this Article VI shall be subject to towing, removal and storage of said vehicle in accordance with MGL c. 266, § 120D, as amended.
B.
Cancelled, revoked, expired or unauthorized parking signs: Display
of a cancelled, revoked, expired, or unauthorized parking sign intended
to restrict parking on a public street or way shall be penalized by
a noncriminal disposition as provided in MGL c. 40, § 21D,
and subject to a fine of $300. Unless otherwise specified, each day
shall constitute a separate violation. Unless otherwise excluded by
state or federal law, a police officer, code enforcement officer,
local building official, zoning officer, or other official designated
by the City Manager is empowered to enforce the provision of this
subsection of this chapter.
[Added 6-12-2012]
A.
Nothing in this article shall be deemed to be intended
to waive any other powers and remedies available to the City to enforce
applicable statutes, regulations, ordinances or this chapter pertaining
to parking violations.
B.
This article is passed in part pursuant to the provisions
of MGL c. 90, § 20A and any other applicable statutes.
