City Council Studies Bill to Sell 30-Day Parking Permits

College car owners are in for a mixed blessing if a bill filed yesterday to permit the issue of 30-day overnight street parking licenses gets by the City Council, Councilman Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, warned last night.

If the bill becomes an ordinance in its present form, a local car owner can apply to the Cambridge Board of License Commissioners to be allowed to park between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. in front of a building or lot when the owner will give his permission. A permit will cost $2 for 30 days, and a new application will be required at the end of that period.

DeGuglielmo warned, however, that owners of cars registered outside of Massachusetts will not only be ineligible for permits, but will, by applying, bring to the attention of the License Commisioners that they have violated or plan to violate the state law requiring registration of all out-of-state cars which remain in Massachusetts for over 30 days.

A large number of student-owned cars perennially violate that law, DeGuglielmo pointed out.

The License Commissioners, according to the present draft of the ordinance, would be required to refuse permits in localities where off-street parking space is available at reasonable rates within reasonable proximity.

"The ordinance is not designed to prevent a parking lot or garage owner from getting a reasonable return on his investment, but neither is it designed to protect gougers," DeGuglielmo said.