Question: Does this sign mean I need a permit to park there period?Submitted by wisperino345 t3_126pxf3 in pittsburgh
chrisms150 t1_jeb8u27 wrote
Reply to comment by esushi in Question: Does this sign mean I need a permit to park there period? by wisperino345
https://pittsburghpa.gov/dcp/faqs
Literally the city itself states
"Those without a permit may park for only a limited amount of time, which may be no more than a 2-hour period"
If they mean per day they should state per day. But they don't.
Because that's not what is intended.
The ordinance is to prevent long term parking on the street. Not limit total cumulative time you can be doing business in a zone (imagine, for example, a maid sevice doing several houses in the same parking zone)
esushi t1_jebh6g2 wrote
So it is your genuine reading of that rule that someone can leave for 1 second and then come back because that falls within your dictionary-words-only reading of the policy? Or is there a chance that, in general, policies require the smallest amount of interpretation to see how it would make sense in the real world? Or are you just being a contrarian for fun? If not one second, how long? How can you determine that with it not being written in the policy? With the complete lack of guidance about "how long you're allowed to be away", only "per day" makes sense. There is no other way to read it.
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