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Citizen complaint of the day: The Brookline driver who just won't take no for an answer
By adamg on Wed, 03/20/2013 - 6:48am
A concerned citizen reports the same commercial vehicle from a Brookline business keeps parking in a resident-permit spot on Cummings Road in Brighton:
This will be the fourth time in 2 weeks this brookline car has parked and been ticketed in residential permit area. Boot them!
The city responds, however, it is powerless to stop this parking fiend:
Vehicle is tagged it is a non towable violation and as long as they pay there tickets we do not boot.
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*their
*their
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the city really wrote "as long as they pay THERE tickets"? that shouldn't surprise me. grammar is hard...
THEIR tickets. Ugh.
THEIR tickets. Ugh.
basically..
They're paying $25 a night to park in that spot. You should thank them for their donation to city's coffers.
(had to double-check my they're/their, thanks that-guy)
Cheaper
The company likely figures that it's cheaper to pay parking tickets then to get a real spot in Brookline. I bet they are right.
A lot of companies just tell their employees to park where they need to and once a week they pay all the tickets as a cost of doing business. I used to work for a company like this.
It can't be cheaper.
Even if they're ticketed only 10 times out of a possible 30-31 days of the month, that's still $250 - $400 in fines.
A parking space in Brookline/Brighton area costs about $150 - $250 a month. This driver is just an asinine prick.
Half the price of Somerville tickets!
Really? A parking violation in Boston costs you $25? What is this, 1990?
basically..
They're paying $25 a night to park in that spot. You should thank them for their donation to city's coffers.
(had to double-check my they're/their, thanks that-guy)
Why doesn't this person walk by the car every day
Well every day it's there at least. The person walking by might accidentally cause the ticket to fall onto the ground. Then while trying to pick it up for them, this person might want to avoid kicking it into the storm drain. Eventually the problem will solve itself.
Or, you could myob and let
Or, you could myob and let them park and pay their tickets. Whatever they are doing must be worth $25 a day.
Why does everyone think the fine is $25?
The fine for parking in a resident spot without a resident parking sticker is $40.
http://www.cityofboston.gov/Parking/fines.asp
The argument still applies that if the company thinks that spot is worth $40 per day, they should be able to park there and pay the tickets.
I wouldn't trust that list
it seems to think double parking is a ticketable offense in Boston.
If BTD would hook me up with
If BTD would hook me up with one of those ticket writing gizmos and go halvesies with me on the fines I'd promise a grand a day in the city's coffers. I could make my quota in a morning on Mass Ave or Blue Hills alone on $100/pop bicycle lane violations alone.
Sunshine Janitorial Services, Inc.
The company that parks here in their dumbass Honda Pilot is Sunshine Janitorial Services, Inc. I see that stupid looking car with its orange ticket every morning.
http://sunshinequality.com/ is their website
617-576-8300
or
[email protected]
Stella Pasternak and Val Busler are the owners.
I welcome everyone to email them or call to tell them to stay in Brookline with their rich turkeys and overnight parking bans.
Brookline Kindergarten
Did they skip the lesson about Not Being a Tattletale?
said the person who probably
said the person who probably doesn't have to fight for a space every night.
did you forget that you are in Brighton?
All citizen connect requests from Brighton are ignored.. or they wait til they are fixed by someone else then say it was fixed days ago.
Some day, the person who
Some day, the person who reported this will have to drive to a town where they don't live. Then they'll see what a pain permit parking can be.
Too bad
Someday, people who don't think this is an issue will get to live in a place like Brighton where overnight parking is a major issue. Then they'll see what a pain out-of-towners taking up spaces can be.
Especially
This is especially a problem on the Brookline/Boston borders where overnight street parking is illegal in Brookline...so they all park in Brighton further reducing availability in an already high-burdened Brighton/Allston-only permitted area.
This is a result of Brookline keeping in place an absurd fiefdom policy without any concern for the effect it has on its own residents or its neighbors. It's not even fully overnight any more. It's between 2-6 AM AND you're still allowed to park overnight for less than an hour.
That means a 3-hour timeout from parking without a valid justification. Every other city can do street cleaning without uprooting every car for 3-4 hours every night. Every other city can tow abandoned vehicles (often using the street sweeping requirements to note which cars are abandoned) without requiring them to leave the street every night.
You're technically not even allowed to park for more than 2 hours at a time on any street in Brookline even when it is legal to actually park on the street. Of course, try telling the people who park outside the Divinity School every day, all day, without moving their car. So, enforcement of the rules is highly selective.
Brookline's policy solves one problem (for them)
and that's the ever-popular semi-permanent Space Saver epidemic!
No reason to save a space when you can't park there (for long).
Yes it does suck for Brighton. They should probably consider resident-sticker-only for areas in Brighton close to Brookline.
That's what makes this guy so infuriating
The areas near Brookline have had resident-only spaces for a couple decades now. As somebody who frequently came home in the wee hours of the morning (because of my job, not my drinking), it was glorious those first few months after resident permits came out in our part of Brighton - I could usually find a space fairly quickly right near our apartment and not have to spend 20 minutes looking for a space way the hell on the other side of Comm. Ave. or something - because Brookliners were too cheap to risk getting ticketed back then. Obviously, that's changed.
Rez parking on BOTH sides?
I knew those areas of brookline had *some* resident-only areas (which isn't evident in my last post) but I thought those areas had resident only on *one* side of the street. Are they rez-only on both sides now?
Why is the pain residents
Why is the pain residents feel because of all the out-of-town cars more important than the pain out-of-towners feel because of all the resident cars?
When Brookline businesses start paying Boston taxes, let's talk
Until then:
1) He's parking his commercial vehicle on a residential street.
2) That's one less space for a Brighton resident to park.
3) Some of us haven't forgotten when Brookline built a wall to keep the rabble from Allston/Brighton out. They made their overnight parking problem, let them fix it. If he's too cheap to rent a space, let him work through the system and convince Brookline Town Meeting to allow overnight parking.
if this were Southie, he
if this were Southie, he would have had his tires slashed... at least we are being civilized
I can't read the link.
So I don't know the plate, but how do we know this person doesn't live in Brighton?
I'm a Sleuth
Owner, Treasurer, Secretary of this business, Stella Pasternak, lives in Brookline on Salisbury Rd. (right nearby border of Brighton)
What number Salisbury?
Online there is a 156 Salisbury, but there is no 156 Salisbury.
Hmmm, maybe there is more to this.
156 Sal
According to the registry of deeds for Norfolk County there is a 156 Salisbury rd Brookline, deeded to Stella Pasternak
RICH
A$$
PEOPLE
Hmm not listed in the street guide I saw.
It is a family trust though, when was it bought? (pre capital gain exemption of $100 sale price)
Only 10K a year in taxes on a property assessed at over one million dollars?
I picked the wrong fancypants town to live in I guess.
None of that addresses the
None of that addresses the bigger issue of why, when two people each need to park on a public street, one of them should be considered more important than the other.
Some day you might have to park in Brighton, and it will be much harder for you than a Brighton resident. Even though you pay Boston taxes, don't drive a commercial vehicle, and didn't build a wall to keep anyone out of your neighborhood.
My rule's pretty simple
If I have to choose, I'm going with the person who actually lives there, whose taxes go more directly to support that road, every single time. It's really no different than towns that restrict their beaches to residents.
As for me having to make a trip to Brighton, well, let's use Allston as an example, since the parts of Brighton where I do need to park are far enough away from cheapskates in Brookline that they don't have resident-only parking.
So what do I'm headed to Allston? I bring quarters, just in case I can't find a visitor spot and have to park in a metered space on Comm. Ave. near Harvard. It's not that complicated.
Crossing the line
Because they crossed the town line, Donny!
This isn't 'nam! There are rules!!
I can understand the pain for
I can understand the pain for one night; "Ugh, I can't find a spot". But this many times? Rent a space for crying out loud! It's cheaper, how do these people run a business.
Easy
It's a risk management/cost benefit analysis problem.
A parking space in that part of Brookline is probably $100-$150/mo. A 100% guaranteed cost and rate.
If it costs $40 when you get caught, but you are only caught an average of 3x a month, then you are averaging $120/mo....the same cost.
Only when the average is above 4x per month does the ticket cost more than a Brookline parking space overnight...a just barely $10 per month. So, they would have to ticket the car more than once a week for it to add up to a cost savings to buy the Brookline parking space.
Fourth time in two weeks
At least that's what the complaint states, so it seems he's already exceeding the cost of an off-street space?