Press Release: Free Garage Parking Extended to 11AM Wednesday

PRESS RELEASE

City of Annapolis

Public Information Office

160 Duke of Gloucester Street

Annapolis, Maryland 21401

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE :

Media Contact: Mitchelle Stephenson, 410-972-7724 or [email protected]

Free Parking Extended to 11AM Wednesday for Vehicles Already Parked in City Garages; Reminder that Residents and Businesses Required to Shovel Sidewalks

ANNAPOLIS, MD (January 7, 2025) - The City of Annapolis official snowfall total from the National Weather Service was 9.5 inches as of 4:45 p.m. on Monday - the most snowfall in a 24-hour period for Annapolis since January 2022.

To give residents a little more time to retrieve vehicles from garages and make sure they have cleared a space to park their vehicle, the Annapolis Department of Transportation (ADOT) has authorized an additional two-hour grace period for vehicles already parked in garages, allowing the four City garages (Park Place, Knighton, Gotts and Hillman) to extend free parking until 11 a.m. on Wednesday, January 8 [a previous announcement asked residents to move their vehicles by 9 a.m. on Wednesday or be charged].

If you have questions or issues specific to Hillman Garage, please contact Premium Parking at 410-216-562 and/or [email protected]. For other City garages (Knighton, Gotts, and Park Place), please contact SP+ at 443-648-3087 and/or [email protected] .

Annapolis Department of Public Works (DPW) crews will continue plow and treat operations overnight and into Wednesday to make streets passable for vehicle travel. The "passable" standard (see photo at right) for plow operations is defined as ensuring at least one travel lane to be accessible with a front-wheel drive car, even if the street has some snow covering the asphalt or if there is snow-pack on the road surface.

As of 3 p.m. on Tuesday, the City of Annapolis is again allowing drivers to park on Emergency Snow Routes. The City declared a Phase Two snow emergency with the following timelines for DPW to clear and make roadways passable:

• Emergency Routes will be passable within 30 hours of the end of snowfall;

• Connector Routes will be made passable within 42 hours of the end of snowfall; and

• Neighborhood roads will be made passable within 66 hours of the end of snowfall.

Residents are asked to use the " Report a Problem" portal to immediately report areas that may have been inadvertently missed by City plow crews.

SIDEWALKS: Owners and occupants of property in the City are responsible for shoveling sidewalks in front of their homes and businesses. Please note that schoolchildren may require use of sidewalks to get to and from school. If you are a home or business owner with a sidewalk used regularly by schoolchildren, please shovel and treat the sidewalk so that children are not forced to walk in the street when schools reopen. Section 14.24.010 of the Annapolis City code requires, "a person owning or occupying a lot or part of a lot fronting on any sidewalk shall cause all snow, sleet or ice to be removed from the sidewalk, so far as the lot abuts the sidewalk, within three hours after the snow or sleet have stopped falling…" . Violation is subject to a $25 fine. If you see a home or business that hasn't shoveled or treated the sidewalk, please use the " Report a Problem" portal to make a report.

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