Somerville update, since people have asked

I called the Somerville mayor's office last week to ask if they'd received my e-mail, since I hadn't heard anything. The person told me the e-mail had been referred to the law department, and they were "working out a solution that maintained the integrity of the parking regulations while providing you with what you need." Cool, and probably more likely to result in something reasonable than the parking people or the health people were willing to provide, but they could have at least written back and let me know they'd read it and acted on it. I'm imagining that most government offices get plenty of correspondence where all they can provide is "sorry, nothing we can do about it," so I'd think they'd be happy to let people know when there's actually something they're trying to do that's helpful.