More fun comments on the effectiveness of PPAP:\n\nDespite all the hassles with parking in front of my house during the day (when the street's empty because most people are at work), a stolen car from Ohio sat abandoned two blocks up from my house for six weeks.  It was plainly abandoned: trash all around the car, broken side mirror with glass on the street next to the car.  SIX WEEKS.  No one did anything about it until I sent an e-mail to my city councilman's office.  \n\nI don't think I've ever seen a ticket on cars that park too close to intersections, i.e. on a yellow-painted curb.  This obscures visibility around intersections, creating an actual safety issue.  Cars regularly block traffic lanes on Craig Street at Centre - real public nuisance, but I've never seen a ticket there, either.  I have seen cars ticketed in almost empty parking lots on Saturday afternoons, though.  Sure - they may have broken the law by overstaying, but I don't think they were creating a public nuisance given that only maybe 10% of the spots were full.\n\nAs another reviewer noted, don't count on getting a renewal notice in the mail.  Mine ran out this year, and I didn't get anything from them.  \n\nThis department is completely dysfunctional; they need to lay off every single employee and start over from scratch.  Just thinking about them makes me want to move out of the city.