The Village of Russel Gardens Board of Trustees on Thursday unanimously voted to approve new parking hours on 15 village streets in an effort to create more uniform parking regulations.
Drivers will be able to park on the village streets for four hours between 8 a.m. and 2 a.m., according to the law.
Some of the streets listed in the law will only have one side affected by the change, while other streets will have both sides changed.
Village of Russel Gardens Mayor Steven Kirschner said the four-hour limit between 8 a.m. and 2 a.m. was the general rule for village streets, but some varied.
“Some started parking at 10:30 a.m. instead of 8 a.m.,” he said.
Kirschner said other streets only allowed a two-hour parking limit, instead of four.
Some residents complained about the varying hours after they had received parking tickets from the village’s code enforcers, Kirschner said.
Kirschner said board members agreed to make the hours uniform after other village officials could not explain why the hours differed.
“If you can’t give a logical reason for a particular law, maybe the law is wrong,” he said.
Kirschner said the law and new parking hours will not go into effect until it is filed with the state secretary of state and signs displaying the parking hours can be placed.
“So probably later this month [the law will take effect],” he said. “We’ll tell our code enforcers to not give out tickets until then.”
The village streets in the law are:
• Both sides of Carlton Road from Wensley Drive to Clent Road
• Both sides of Chester Drive from Wensley Drive to Dodford Road
• The West wide of Clent Road from the northerly curbline of Wensley Drive to a point 300 feet north
• The North side of Darley Road from a point 50 feet west of the westerly curbline of South Middle Neck Road to the Russel Gardens park
• The South side of Darley Road from a point 70 feet west of the westerly curbline of South Middle Neck Road to the Russel Gardens park
• Both sides of Dodford Road from Tain Drive to Carlton Road
• The North side of Dunster Road from a point 114.5 feet west of the westerly curbline of South Middle Neck Road to the Russel Gardens park
• The South side of Dunster Road from a point 118 feet west of the westerly curbline of South Middle Neck Road to the Russel Gardens park
• Both sides of Linford Road from Wenlsey Drive to Tain Drive
• The North side of Melbourne Road from a point 140 west of the westerly curbline of South Middle Neck Road to the Russel Gardens park
• The South side of Melbourne Road from a point 113.5 feet west of the westerly curbline of South Middle Neck Road to the Russel Gardens park
• Both sides of Tain Drive from a point 150 feet south of the southerly curbline of Wensley Drive to Clent Road
• The East side of Wensley Drive from the northeast corner of Melbourne Road to the curbline of the northeast corner of Tain Drive
• The West side of Wensley Drive from a point 85 feet north of the northwest corner of Clent Road and Wensley Drive to the curbline of the southeast corner of Tain Drive and Wensley Drive
• The West wide of Wensely Drive from the southwest corner of Clent Road and Wensley Drive to the northwest corner of Linford Road
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