More than 19 Nabbed in Disabled Parking Enforcement
But the sweep did not include the Historic District, where merchants and residents have recently complained of illegal parking.
Parking has been a hot topic in the Historic District recently and one repeated complaint has been that that some drivers, including merchants and even a parking enforcement official, have been using disabled parking placards illegally to secure parking on Main Street. The Howard County Police announced Wednesday that the department worked with the Maryland Motor Vehicle Association (MVA) to find and cite 19 drivers for improper use of disabled parking placards and others who had no tags at all, according to a statement from Howard County Police. However, none of those citations were issued in the Historic District. In an Oct. 12 letter to merchants and residents of the Historic District, Director of Special Projects for the Department of …
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6:34 pm on Monday, May 6, 2013
I have personally watched the parking enforcement agent in Ellicott City, Randy, park his yellow cruiser, grab food and do a little shopping and talk in the antique shop for quite some time. One of the store owners went and checked his meter and it was expired. He then got in his yellow cruiser and drove up to his office. We have also witnessed him warn the store owners and ask them to put money … more ›