Grafton Street No Parking Anytime Ordinance

At a glance

What: City Manager communication recommending an ordinance to permanently establish No Parking Anytime on portions of both sides of Grafton St.
Where it stands: resolved. Both ordinances were ordained 11-0 on 2026-09-08.
Next: none recorded.

Speakers were mixed (one neutral, two opposed). Two speakers (one on Zoom) said the ban worsened queues, with videos of 5 to 10 minute standstills; a resident also asked about traffic studies for roughly 471 units planned across from the school.
Stephen S. Rolle said the shoulder is too narrow and the driveways too frequent for a parking lane; a working group (city, police, school, Safe Routes to School) now uses the whole school lot for pickup, which cut the backup to about 10 minutes. Parking east of the driveway remains and the planned resurfacing should widen it.
Before the ban, per Fresolo, cars lined up from about 12:30 for over an hour back to Dalton St. Bilotta worried about winter pickup on the street.
John P. Fresolo said the zone had improved traffic in the area.
Robert A. Bilotta raised student pickup problems at Roosevelt Elementary School, 1006 Grafton St.

2026-07-22: recommended for approval 2-0 (to the full City Council), with a chairman's order asking the Commissioner of Transportation and Mobility to work with the School Department and the District Councilor on pickup and drop-off at Roosevelt Elementary.
2026-08-18: the Council voted 9-0 to advertise the ordinance and adopted the Roosevelt Elementary pickup/drop-off order 9-0.
A separate petition for "No Left Turn" signage on Grafton St. northbound near Roosevelt was also advertised.
2026-09-08: both ordinances were ordained 11-0.

About 22 minutes across 1 meeting (from transcript timestamps; approximate).

Meeting	Minutes
2026-07-22 - Traffic and Parking Committee	22

2026-09-08 - City Council — Item 21l (prohibit on-street parking on portions of Grafton St.) and item 21g (prohibit left turns from Grafton St. into Roosevelt School at 1006 Grafton St.) ordained 11-0 with the other traffic ordinances.
2026-08-18 - City Council — Item 19k: ordinance advertised 9-0; Item 12d: pickup/drop-off order for Roosevelt Elementary adopted 9-0; 19f (No Left Turn near Roosevelt) advertised 9-0.
2026-07-22 - Traffic and Parking Committee — Recommended for approval 2-0 (Ojeda absent); Roosevelt Elementary drop-off order. Heard from residents who said the ban worsens the school queue; Rolle and Fresolo defended it (backup now about 10 minutes vs. over an hour).