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o�sou Tx <br /> F dx <br /> :J b <br /> W eFacE � � <br /> y� a 1, a2 <br /> 1865 <br /> Office of the Mayor <br /> NEWS RELEASE <br /> October 10, 2007 <br /> 5:30 p.m. <br /> City to monitor lawn parking under new ordinance <br /> Contact: Chuck Leone, City Attorney, 235-9241, <br /> Property owners who park vehicles on their lawns during Saturday's University of Notre <br /> Dame home football game will have their activities monitored and documented by city <br /> Code Enforcement regulators and South Bend police officers. <br /> The city's new special events parking ordinance was passed Sept. 24 by the South Bend <br /> Common Council and is now in effect. Documentation collected during game day will be <br /> referred to the city's Legal Department for enforcement decisions. Saturday's home game <br /> against Boston College is the first since the ordinance's passage. <br /> Under the legislation now in effect, city property owners wanting to park vehicles on <br /> lawns during Notre Dame home football games need to submit an application and pay a <br /> $5 fee by 4:45 p.m. the Thursday before game day. Violators risk a citation and a$50 <br /> fine for the first offense. Subsequent offenses will result in higher fines and the risk of <br /> cancellation or prohibition of future lawn parking. Fines can reach as high as $2,500 for <br /> chronic violators. <br /> City law prohibits parking in front yards in residential neighborhoods, but the new special <br /> events ordinance defined exceptions for Residential One-Day Conditional Use lawn <br /> parking with specific terms and conditions. <br /> As of today, no applications had been filed with the city's Department of Administration <br /> and Finance for a special-events parking permit, although about one dozen applications <br /> were requested by residents. <br /> "This first weekend of enforcement will give us the sense of the amount of resources the <br /> city needs to commit to ensuring that public safety is maintained," said City Attorney <br /> Chuck Leone. "The extensive discussion of this ordinance before its passage should help <br /> provide a high level of cooperation and compliance,." <br />