Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) - Despite snow forecast this past weekend, communities that have already lifted the overnight winter parking bans say they will not reinstate them. They are asking residents to use common sense if snow does fall and take vehicles into their driveways.
Cheektowaga Supervisor Brian Nowak says he spoke with his highway superintendent about the weekend forecast calling for snow, but decided against reinstating the overnight winter parking bans he lifted a couple of weeks ago. "it's just gonna be a brief anomaly from the weather report over the next week to 10 days," says Nowak.
Nowak says it's already getting to that place where the ban would have been lifted before the official end on April 1st. He says he cannot implement a one size fits all solution because some streets in the town are narrow. "It's good right now to have what we have on the books until we can reevaluate possibly doing something neighborhood by neighborhood or considering the snow band in our responses, but that's something that I want to talk with our highway superintendent and our first responders about a little bit more," says Nowak.
North Tonawanda's overnight parking rules usually end April 1st, but Mayor Austin Tylec says those were lifted early because of the mild winter. Just because snow fell this weekend, the rules weren't coming back into place. "We want to keep it solid, we don't want to create confusion. So, we generally ask people, if they do see a lot of snow to bring your vehicle in their driveway, if they can, so our plows can safely plow," says Tylec.
Tylec says there hasn't been much talk about changing timeframes for winter parking rules. "The weather has been pretty mild. I would say over the years. I don't know what that is if it's climate change or something of that sort, but we postponed our parking ban I believe, maybe a month or more," says Tylec. He says he could see changing the time from from December 1st to March 1st.
