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Double-Parking Problems Arise at Post Office’s Main St. Location
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Officials say they’re seeing frequent double-parking in front of the Post Office’s hastily relocated Main Street space, especially in the afternoon. The problem has emerged since a loading zone in front of 90 Main St. earlier this month was modified to allow three 15-minute spaces—a change that was itself designed to accommodate customers of the Post Office. (From 7 to 11 a.m., they coincide with the loading zone that continues to serve businesses along that stretch.)
Karen Miller, supervisor of the New Canaan Parking Bureau, said the morning has been OK but that officials are seeing “a little more shenanigans in the afternoon.”
“We are giving a lot of double-parking tickets,” she said at Thursday’s meeting of the Parking Commission, held at Lapham Community Center. Town officials and business leaders have leveled strong criticism at the Post Office, saying it vacated a longtime Pine Street location (there’s a Mrs. Green’s Natural Market going in there) with no real plan for relocation.