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i own a piece of property on baldwin place in Boston North end. From the beginning of time it has been a private way. Recently the meter maids have been tagging saying they have been receiving calls that people are afraid a firetruck or ambulance not being able to get down there....thus ticketing.... The people that are calling are disgruntled becasue they own a building on an ajoining public street and are enraged they cannot put out cones and save spaces for there own needs When this has happened in the past the tickets have been dismissed but it is still very much a nuisance, Is there anything as propery owners we can do collectively to stop this harrassment...?

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just appealling tickets and complainng to parking supervisors who say to just appeal them... there are no sign posted that say no parking on left side where all the vehicles are.... there are 8 of us who contend with this

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You will have to go to court and file for a restraining order against the meter maids under the theory they have no authority to issue citations on a private way. You should get an attorney to file for the restraining order, since there are 8 of you, the costs could be shared and should not be much. Other than that, the only other thing you can do is to go to the City Council and complain.

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Reply to PaulMJD's Post: sounds like good advice and it is definitely listed as private way but they say that they are giving tickets because people are calling .. (BS) more that some has a friend in the parking dept. and is annoyedbecause they cannot park there initially tickets were 75 for firelane now they are 40 for regular non resident parking , some times they tag 5x a day . There are no posted signs for resident parking ... Pretense is emergency vehciles could not go down there.. is there anything on the mass laws about 10 ft passage ways between curbs end to curbs end...also the sidewalks are on each side are over 6ft wide... i beleive the whole expanse is 20 plus feet, would it be illegal for car to climb side walk and leave 10 ft expanse

Posted by PaulMJD 512 days and 19 hours ago.

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There is nothing about 10 ft. passage ways and I could not find any law that grants them the authority to write parking citations on private property.

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