(Credit: Courtesy the LA Group, 2023)
Timothy Larson
Parking fines up, but not to prepandemic levels
Monthly parking fines in Glens Falls hit $3,818.10 in February. This, according to a quick report from the city’s Parking Violations Bureau found in the Common Council agenda documentation.
That is up from $1,408.50 in January when the city first began to ticket people post-pandemic.
However, in 2019, the last full year of parking tickets were issued, the city’s Parking Violations Bureau recorded $96,555 in parking fines, or $8,046.25 per month.
The city had stopped ticketing cars illegally parked in 2020.
Since then, the city has floated the idea of a transit hub in what is now the surface parking lot on Elm Street, has paid for a parking study in the city, has installed parking sensors and contracted with a parking app developer (that project had been in process for at least a year before the pandemic) and has taken some heat, especially from the downtown business community, for issuing parking passes but not having assigned parking for those passes.
The special projects committee has been working on the rules regarding overnight parking and expects to take on some of the larger parking issues next.
[Read more about the parking situation here.]
Glens Falls seeking input regarding Noise Ordinance
The City of Glens Falls Building and Codes Committee is in the process of reviewing the City’s Noise Ordinance. The Committee is seeking comments and concerns from both residents and those who work within the City of Glens Falls.
[Read our earlier story on this here.]
Problem noise is listed in the city’s code in only a few instances, including revving car engines and playing car stereos too loudly. The other issue deals with the noise that garbage trucks make as they collect trash.
So, the Building and Codes Committee is inviting everyone who lives and works in the City of Glens Falls to complete a Noise Ordinance survey.
According to press materials, the feedback provided will be reviewed and discussed in the next Building and Codes meeting on March 27 beginning at 1 p.m. on the 2nd Floor of City Hall.
Timothy Larson named to development corporations
Mayor Bill Collins has named Timothy Larson to the Glens Falls Civic Development Corporation, the Greater Glens Falls Local Development Corporation, and the Glens Falls Industrial Development Agency. According to his about page at the LAGroup architecture firm, he was also on the City of Glens Falls Urban Renewal Agency and the City of Glens Falls Zoning Board of Appeals.