TO THE EDITOR:
We have a problem with the four-car parking restriction mentioned in the DTH article on Sept. 5. Recently, we found an officer taking photographs of the cars parked behind our house.
When asked what was happening, she said we would be served a $100 fine for the extra cars in our lot.
Apparently, the residents of our neighborhood were frustrated with the “influx of both students and cars,” and the fact that “there were so many cars in the neighborhood it felt like a parking lot.”
Our cars were out of public view, and, to put it sensitively, our neighborhood has far worse “aesthetic” problems than cars parked behind our up-kept house.
Perhaps the law would be better suited focusing on other issues that Church Street faces, such as the multiple car break-ins, assaults and robberies that have happened to students by the residents with whom we are “trying to improve relations.”
We understand that the people of this neighborhood are frustrated with their property taxes rising. Maybe they even have extreme aesthetic sensitivities and could be more offended by vehicles than by trash, construction debris, broken windows and other forms of complete disrepair.
Had we known that our neighborhood would be so against us, we would not have signed this lease.
Unfortunately, we were not made aware of the time and location of the town meeting in which this was discussed. To us, this ordinance is a blatant attempt to discourage students from moving here — treatment we have done nothing to deserve.
