“I heard someone from down the street complained, that there wasn’t enough room to drive down the street,” Atlas said of the situation that led to the first night of ticketing.Īfter the first wave of tickets Robin Road residents began reaching out to town officials. When they looked at the apartment and signed the lease, “the landlord said there was free parking on the road,” Atlas said.Īfter waking up that Tuesday morning in late June to find the $20 ticket, Atlas said she contacted the landlord, who then told her she needed to register her car through the West Hartford Police Department’s “Omit System” to avoid being ticketed – something she said she had not previously been told about.Ītlas registered her car after that first night, and didn’t get a ticket when she left her car on the street overnight, but one of her neighbors across the hall, who didn’t register their car, got a ticket the second night as well.
She’s in her final year of obtaining her doctorate in physical therapy at the University of Hartford, and needs her car to get to class and her clinicals. “Our apartment is a two-bedroom apartment, but in our building there is only one parking space per apartment,” she said. Jenna Atlas moved with her partner to Robin Road in April 2023. “We have agreed to take a look at our overnight parking ordinance,” Town Manager Rick Ledwith told, noting that town officials understand that this is more than a non-compliance problem and there are several areas of town where there is not enough off-street parking available. That changed early the morning of June 27, when all of the vehicles parked on Robin Road – dozens that lined the street, many of which had been parking there every night – were ticketed by police.
West Hartford’s overnight parking ban was suspended for much of the pandemic – initially to accommodate a large and sudden influx of cars belonging to college students returning to town and other changes in work, travel, and living habits – but while the ban was reinstated as of February 2022, there are areas where residents have continued to park on the street overnight without consequences. Wednesday, cars are parked on both sides along the block of Robin Road just north of Farmington, where most of the buildings are apartments and condominiums.
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