The City of Greensboro is not writing parking tickets for vehicles parked at expired meters downtown.
This policy went into effect with the original stay-at-home executive order by Gov. Roy Cooper in the spring.
However, for some reason the city parking enforcement office doesn’t want people to know that it is not handing out tickets.
The person who answers the phone at the Parking Enforcement Division would not answer the question about whether the parking enforcement officers were writing parking tickets for expired meters or not. She said they were “monitoring” downtown parking, which could have a lot of different meanings.
The supervisor in the Parking Enforcement Division, Walter Jordon, said that questions about parking enforcement should be referred to the chief of police.
Parking enforcement is part of the Greensboro Department of Transportation (GDOT), not the Police Department.
GDOT Director Hanna Cockburn was more than willing to answer questions about the current state of parking enforcement and confirmed that the Parking Enforcement Division employees are part of the GDOT and not the Police Department.
When asked if the city was writing tickets for expired meters Cockburn said, “No, we are not.”
She also said that people were not expected to put money in the meters, since enforcement of expired meters had been suspended.
Cockburn said, “We are continuing to send enforcement staff out to make sure that operations are safe and to make sure that people have safe access to the streets.”
She said that the decision was made not to enforce parking regulations because, “We recognize the current situation is impacting the way people need to use the streets.”
Cockburn said that tickets were being written for people who were “clearly blocking the street” and that the Police Department was writing tickets for parking in handicapped zones.
Cockburn said that there had been a lot of discussion about when to resume writing parking tickets for expired meters and other such offenses, and although everything is constantly changing there was currently no intent to resume writing tickets during Phase 2 of the governor’s reopening plan.
She said, “We are tying the on-street enforcement to Phase 3 of the governor’s plan.”
Cockburn also said that before parking enforcement was reinstated, public announcements would be made and downtown partners such as Downtown Greensboro Inc. would be contacted to help get the word out.
It’s a little odd that the city has not given more public notice of the no-ticket policy, but Cockburn said with all the other announcements that have been made in the past months, the no-parking ticket policy announcement didn’t get much notice.
Notice? No notice? What’s da diff? Who wants to go to the riot scene again?
Thanks John, it is nice to know we can DEPEND on YOU to let us KNOW THE TRUTH !!!! Great info on the Parking Meters !!!! Again THANKYOU !!!!!!!
That what they do some law’s that’ll push and some like expired tags so that’s tell other drivers these people have no insurance but greensboro doesn’t care because it not your property so no tickets for parking down town none of you gave a crap for NC PEOPLE ITS ALL ABOUT YOUR SELF ? WE THE PEOPLR CAN!T WAIT TO VOTE EACH ONE OF YOU OUT YOU HAVE DONE NOTHING FOR THE PEOPLE BUT SPEND OUR TAX MONEY.
I’m frighten to drive over yellow paint so I’ll NEVER go downtown EVER again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I paid for the streets downtown so why didn’t I get to vote for painting MY streets? Downtown is NOT a place for ME to every go again.
If I wanted to paint a street downtown would I be allowed to pick a street and paint anything that I wanted to paint there? WHY? TELL THE TROUBLE!!! AT least it kept the protesters busy for a while instead of them doing more crime.
Those who paint city property should pay the same penalty was the rioters and looters who destroyed city and private property. Pay to clean it up and replace it.
Just make me King of Greensboro, please.
Greensboro is going to be BEGGING people to come downtown before long.
I grew up in Greensboro, but as an adult, you couldn’t pay me enough money to live there. I do work in Greensboro, but i’ll never spend another penny in this God-forsaken city ever again. When we return to working back in the office, I’ll be bringing my lunch everyday.
This is not the same Greensboro I grew up in. When I was younger, we used to have the City Stage every year, and it was a fun time for all. No one caused any trouble. Now, the deranged leftist city council has handed the city over to the criminals and anyone who is smart will either vote these morons out of office, and reclaim their city, or leave.
Why do big cities attract so many weak minded simpletons?
This isn’t true. I received a ticket on June 8 which was the day the city said they were beginning to enforce expired meters again. I also watched the city meter maids writing tickets in late August. If they aren’t supposed to write tickets, maybe they should tell that to their staff.
If you received a ticket for an expired meter on June 8, you should definitely appeal it. The enforcement division is only supposed to be issuing warnings, but the enforcement division also thinks it works for the police department when it is in fact part of the Deportment of Transportation, so anything is possible.