Parking and Traffic Ordinance Changes October 2026

At a glance

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What: public hearings on resident permit parking for about 17 streets (7 p.m. to 7 a.m., uniform per DPW), handicap parking additions and removals, a daycare drop-off zone on Boswell Street (338-26), and stop signs at Bruce and Corner Streets (374-26) and Sunray Street at Highland Avenue (375-26).
Where it stands: all approved with no public speakers. New handicap parking requests for Greenwood, Fenno and Union Streets and a pole installation were sent to public hearing; several handicap requests were withdrawn; a loading zone request for 66 Jackson Street (165-26) was sent to a public hearing while the city engineer is asked to look for an alternative such as Heber Street.

Sources

Log

2026-10-27 - Ordinance Committee - Agenda lists about 150 tabled parking, traffic and one-way requests, plus new handicapped parking requests and a snow and ice operations review (446/26).
2026-10-20 - City Council - Approved the resident, handicap, daycare and stop sign changes; ordered more hearings.
2026-10-13 - Ordinance and Committee of the Whole - The Ordinance Committee sent a new National Grid pole on Marson Street at Brookline Street to the full council to order a public hearing; sent handicap-parking removals (157 and 159 Fairway Street, 18 Orion Street, 23 Arding Street and a Welding Street address), handicap requests (195 Fairway Street, 45 M Street), child care parking at 16 Orange Street, 15- and 50-minute parking requests, and resident parking on Fairmont Street to police and DPW or the engineer for review; one-hour parking at Nuno de Mara park to the engineering department; and took a batch of tabled handicap requests out of the table, ordering hearings for favorably recommended spaces at 56 Greenway Street, 4 Furlong Street and 192 Union Street and withdrawing others (with denial letters) including 145 Union Street and 393 Lowell Street. Councilor Gonzalez asked to revisit older tabled Fairmont Street items 31-26, 32-26 and 33-26, and the committee took them off the table and asked DPW and police for updates.
2026-09-29 - Ordinance Committee - Engineering recommended approval of resident parking on Gayor, a stretch between Greenwood and Waring, West Street and Bay State Road, a four-way stop at Bruce and Corny Streets and a stop sign at Highland Avenue; all sent to the full council to order public hearings.
2026-11-04 - City Council - Handicapped parking items 335/26, 364/26 and 378/26 up for hearing; parking items 453-458 listed under new business.