“It isn’t fair. You can’t find a space so you can do your business,” Baldassari says. “They need to update everything.”
Michael L. Charney, a longtime resident of Cambridge, says he encountered problems when he attempted to learn about the city’s parking laws.
“I thought I should find out what I’d be hit for next,” says Charney, who says he was appealing a ticket for a violation he isn’t sure he actually committed.
According to Charney, when he requested a copy of the regulations from the Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department, an employee turned him down.
“She said to me, ‘Even if we had a copy, we wouldn’t give it to you, because it’ll confuse you,’” he says.
Clippinger says a new edition of the regulations may be forthcoming.
“Our hope is that we’ll have a new version within a couple of months,” she says. “We’re producing it with existing staff, and it’s time-consuming.”
—Staff writer Alexander J. Blenkinsopp can be reached at blenkins@fas.harvard.edu.