http://1smootshort.blogspot.com/2009/12/city-of-somerville-wants-me-to-violate.html
http://1smootshort.blogspot.com/2009/12/wow-somerville-is-really-digging.html
http://1smootshort.blogspot.com/2009/12/somerville-parking-update.html
http://1smootshort.blogspot.com/2010/01/somerville-update-since-people-have.html
So, today I called the Somerville mayor's office to see what was going on and why it's been six months since the start of the issue. This was largely prompted by getting a ticket outside the individual's house this week, which I'm not even sure how to appeal, since it has an address on it.
I got a call right back from a very nice man named David in the legal department, who told me he had talked to the parking people and it would be no problem at all if I gave them the names of three adjacent streets, one of which is my client's, and they'd issue me a permit allowing me to park on only those streets. Wasn't this what I asked for before? I told the parking person I'd be completely willing to send in verification that I'm a health care provider, perfectly happy with a permit that only allowed me to park in a small area, perfectly happy with a permit that only allowed parking on Tuesdays. As we know from previous posts, the guy was ridiculously rude and unaccommodating. And then the people in the health commission were similarly ridiculous, including the registered nurse who wanted me to contact the person's family without a release to do so and didn't believe I could be doing counseling without an "ordering physician" overseeing my work and wouldn't allow my licensed self to attest that I was doing my job.
But all of the sudden, once a lawyer tells the parking people that, gee, a health care provider was correct about the laws relating to providing health care, they're fine with it? Great, but was all this necessary? Was it worth any of our time to ensure that there was no way in hell some person with proper identification and a professional license would get away with being allowed to park in a plenty-of-parking-spaces residential part of Somerville once in a while? I mean, I understand what a huge risk that would be on their part. Taking a chance at having a car sitting in Somerville is a serious issue, unlike small and frivolous risks like risking one's professional license.
I could have gotten a gun license a lot easier.
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