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> They should plaster the neighborhood in warning notices a month before the event

I grew up in Seattle but lived in Philly for 2 years and this was one of the strangest things to me. In many cases they don't post _any notices at all._

I knew enough people who got "courtesy" towed with no records that I added a GPS tracker to our car to make sure I could find it.

See also: https://www.inquirer.com/news/courtesy-towing-south-philly-p... https://www.inquirer.com/news/towing-philadelphia-parking-au...


Seattle, for anyone who hasn't lived there, has a set of folding barricades marked 'No Parking' with a blank space to put dates and times. I believe you can even go to the city and borrow a set yourself for things like sidewalk repairs, taking down a tree, moving vans, or having a forklift show up to move something into your yard, though these seem to go out pretty close to the event whereas I saw city ones show up two weeks before something major.

From a smaller data sample, parts of Oregon also do this as well.

It's a pretty normal thing here in Massachusetts that you can get some placards to post on the street for when people are bringing in moving vans and whatnot. I believe you get these from the town you live in.

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