City punishes some who live downtown

“Parking scofflaws.”

I’m guilty as charged. I, too, play the re-parking game. I and many in my building.

You see, we live here on Hewitt Avenue. We pay rent, frequent the local businesses and cooperate with local law enforcement. Now The Herald informs us we live at ground zero for a future of newly stringent parking enforcement and fines.

Some of us pay rent and heat and whatever else and have little remaining to keep us from being “scofflaws.” So we re-park every two hours during weekdays. We’d get a parking permit, to enjoy a privilege that many take for granted in this city and park our vehicles on the street, but we are denied this because our building’s off-street parking is not zoned as residential. We who live here are in the proverbial crack in the sidewalk. And lo and behold, here comes the boot.

Scofflaw. Will The Herald and City Council kindly inform us when we’ve graduated to vermin?

Dan Corry

Everett