The Public Safety & Transportation Committee voted to Hold the following (see Report and watch the video):
Discussion, review, and possible permit program for parking on-street and in municipal lots (8-0): David Koses, Transportation Coordinator, gave an overview of the City’s six parking districts: Newtonville Neighborhood, Auburndale Village, Horace Mann Neighborhood, West Village, Newton Corner, and Newton Highlands, and the two parking permit programs: Newton Centre Employee and Temporary (usually used for construction).
Resident permits for the parking districts cost $25 annually. Employee permits cost $200 annually in Newton Highlands but are free in Newton Center. Only one street has ever asked to be removed from the program, and that street later requested to be reinstated in the Newtonville Neighborhood Parking Permit program. No street has been denied entry in the program. A commuter permit program has been discussed “but did not come to fruition.” Enforcement is complaint-driven. A nighttime program has not been discussed.
The Senior Center issues parking permits for residents over 65 years or older, which allow free parking at short-term meters in municipal lots. Approximately 4,400 such permits have been sold since July 2023. The permits cost $6 and last two years.
Free municipal lot stickers are issued by the Traffic Bureau. The stickers provide residents with overnight parking in City lots during the winter parking ban. The Nonantum and Adams Street lots “sell out.”
For more information on the parking permit programs visit: https://www.newtonma.gov/government/public-works/transportation-division/parking