THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, August 31, 1994 TAG: 9408300173
SECTION: VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON PAGE: 07 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY TOM HOLDEN, STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: Short : 44 lines
Beach Borough residents might think twice about their new mandatory parking stickers.
The new permits have adhesive on the opposite side of the lettering. If used as designed and applied to the outside of the car's window, they make an easy mark for any thief.
To prevent theft, stickers should be taped inside on the left side of the rear window.
``Those are stickers we had lying around, and we felt that since this program is good for a couple of months that we'd use stickers we already had,'' said Henry Ruiz, the city's parking administrator.
``If they get ripped off, then we'll address that,'' he said.
On Aug. 9, City Council voted to expand a residential parking permit program adopted two years ago in a 22-block area along the corridor between 23rd and 25th streets. The expanded program now stretches from Laskin Road on the north, Norfolk Avenue on the south and Parks Avenue on the west.
The program bans parking from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. Street signs announcing the change in the law have been in place for about two weeks.
City officials insist the new parking laws are part of a pilot program and could change this fall when the city and neighborhood groups sit down to fine tune the idea.
``In about about two weeks we're going to evaluate it, collect input from residents, and see how we can design a program that would be in the best interests of the majority,'' Ruiz said. ``At that time, we will come in with a new decal that would be placed on the inside of the window.'' ILLUSTRATION: Photo
The new permits have adhesive on the opposite side of the lettering.
If used as designed and applied to the outside of the car's window,
they make an easy mark for any thief.
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