Eye on the Neighborhood

Does Chelsea MA have a regulation or law directed towards the parking and storage of commercial vehicles? There is a van with commercial plates that is owned by a business owner who lives on this street. This van has not moved from its parking spot on the street for 3 days... This person has ample enough room in his driveway to park his business vehicles.. He has decided to use the very very very limited available on street parking up here to store his business vehicles.. This is in called for and EXTREMELY RUDE when he has a drive, 4 car garage and a parking lot in his back yard that could fit 10 cars all of this space on his personal property is open so there is no need for this van to be taking away public spots from other tax payers in this city...

SECTION 34-283 Chelsea MA Code of Ordinance Table of Required Off Street Parking Spaces For Dwellings - Each Dwelling Units in a 1-2 Family Dwelling is REQUIRED To Provide 2 OFF STREET PARKING SPACES.

87 Garland Street Is a 2 Family. The Landlord lives in the top unit and rents out the 1st floor. The first floor is a 4 bedroom 1 bath unit and the landlord typically has 2-3 familys living in this one unit and does not allow tenants to use the off street parking (please see image that is uploaded) This particular home on Garland Street has offstreet parking for 8-10 (4 car garage and 6-5 cars can fit in back lot) Currently each family that lives in this unit owns 1-2 cars. Garland Street is one side parking only and is quite limited. I own a single family home across the street from this 2 family and I am left with no place to park due to the tenants from 87 Garland consuming all of the spots because their landlord will not provide for Section 34-283 of Chelsea Code.

Please tell me who in city hall I need to call to fix this situation. I have tried to communicate with this residents however I do not speak Spanish and they apparently do not understand my English so we are at a stand still. I would like to resolve this peacefully and respectfully. If we all follow the laws that are in place we can share the resources and everyone can get along however tensions are very high up here on this street due to relative parking issues.

I have accepted the fact that the city removed day time parking restrictions and altered the evening restrictions that provided ease of access for the Whiden Hospital Employees due to the parking garage construction that began in 2014 and is still on going. I get that politicians need political alliances to facilitate and maintain their positions "everyone needs to earn a living". Subsequently due to low turn out at the discussion meeting the ruling was put through and we lost our parking protection. Initially the hospital employees only consumed all of our parking from 6am - 3pm however now it is an all day and weekend ordeal. 2nd and 3rd shift and weekend employees are taking all of our parking. I have battled this from the very beginning but I have no strength against the city manager. I am writing to you now in hopes that you can provide me with direction on what to do. I no longer can have guests visit as they have no place to park my once happy home has been encumbered. The neighbors are so sick and tired of hospital parkers that they have resorted to parking all of their vehicles on the street rather than in their driveways as a measure to dissuade hospital parkers this results in no parking available in a 2-3 block radius. It is awful up here and absolutely NO ONE in city hall cares... I am in tears, I am beginning to resent living in Chelsea, This is my home I built and remade it I am attached to it YET I am being held prisoner in a very unhappy situation taken advantage of by politicians and I have no available recourse.. There is not even a city lot up here for people to park in there is not available space. WHY HAVE THEY CITY POLITICIANS DONE THIS TO US FOR A HSOPITAL THAT SITS IN EVERET? The city of Chelsea does not benefit from this hospital albeit the city politicians who benefit personally.

WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO? Are we to supposed to be driven from the homes we have made?

I noticed that the city recently planted new trees along the street on the lower end of Garland St. Why are there no new trees on the 80 block of Garland?
Please beautify our block as well.
Thank You

You can see in the attached picture that the LEGAL sign says No parking 8AM-6PM Mon-Fri and 12AM-5AM 7 Days.

The young blond girl who owns this car works at Whidden Hospital and parks infront of my house 88 Garland St next to the LEGAL sign posted by the City of Chelsea every single day.

Without fail she never gets ticketed.. So I am beginning to wonder who she is related to at Chelsea City Hall. To my knowledge the laws governing parking up here have not changed and although they may be up for review the fact remains the law has not changed. If the law has not changed then the City needs to enforce it equally and equitably across the board.

Can I park my care in City Halls parking lot for 8 hours without getting a ticket?

I FEEL DISCRIMINATED AGAINST! The city of Chelsea has discriminated against me for applying laws to me and not others...

Parked at 8AM its 11:30 still no ticket...

NO RESIDENTIAL PARKING STICKER
I SERIOUSLY WISH I WAS RELATED TO ALL OF YOU BIG WIGS IN CITY HALL AND THEN PERHAPS I WOULD GET THIS PARKING PERK AS WELL

OF COURSE NO ONES IS ANSWERING PHONE AT PARKING OFFICE

These cars DO NOT HAVE RESIDENTIAL STICKERS AND ARE VIOLATING THE LAW...

Please enforce the laws as they are written in a fair and equitable manner..... LAWS AS THEY ARE WRITTEN, not to a select few...

Hospital Worker parked without a permit.. just want to add that I own a home in Chelsea I pay taxes to the city of Chelsea and my guest received a ticket this morning of which I will willingly pay HOWEVER if the resident tax payer has to pay fines for parking then this NON RESIDENT Hospital Staff most certainly needs to pay the fine. PLEASE GET SOMEONE UP HERE AND GIVE THIS CAR A TICKET.. Laws should be fair and equitable...

87 Garland Street is registered as a 2 family home. The owner lives on the 2nd floor and renters on the 1st floor. I have counted 3 different families who are making the 1st floor their home. I think there is a law against overcrowding and overpopulation of rental apartments. 87 Garland Street is a residential property that has 6-8 off street parking spots available for use, however; the owner does not allow the tenants to park in these spots instead he opts to let them take up all available off street spots leaving the rest of the neighborhood (Property owners / Tax payers) without any place to park. The 75-91 block of Garland has 11 multi family homes and 3 single family homes. According to zoning ordinances (2 spots per unit) An estimated 52 off street spots are needed for parking. A quick estimate of driveways in the area show parking availability for 35 cars. There are approximately 11 off street spaces available. So in total the 75-91 Block of Garland Street can handle 46 vehicles (IF EVERYONE FOLLOWS THE RULES) as you can see by running the numbers parking is at a shortage up here. According to city zoning ordinance Landlords are required to provide to tenants 2 off street parking spots. How do we go about getting the CITY TO ENFORCE ZONING ORDINANCES and FORCE LANDLORDS TO PROVIDE 2 OFFSTREET PARKING SPOTS TO THEIR TENANTS?