Olean Mayor Amy B. Sherburne declared a Snow Event Monday, which will remain in effect until further notice.
The Snow Event prohibits parking on specific streets during snowfalls to allow forcity snowplows to effectively clear city streets.
Parking of motor vehicles on primary streets shall be prohibited between the hours of 3 a.m. and 7 a.m. Parking on sub-primary streets shall be prohibited between midnight and 7 a.m., Sherburne said.
Primary streets are: North and South Union; East and West State.
Sub-primary streets are: Alder from Seneca to Spring, Buffalo, Clark, North and South Clinton, Constitution, Delaware from Union to Barry, North Eighth between West Sullivan and Wayne, East and West Elm, Euclid, Fifteenth; South First from State to Irving; North First, North Forest, (200 and 300 blocks); South Fourth, (200 block); North Fourth from Wayne, Franchot Boulevard (east of Union), Franklin, Front, Genesee, West Green, Hamilton, West Henley, Higgins, Highland Terrace, Homer, Indiana Avenue, Irving, Johnson, King, Laurens, Madison, Main, South Nineteenth, Oregon, Oviatt (east of Main), Pine, Prospect, Queen Reed from Third to Thirteenth, River, Seneca, South Seventh, East Spring, Spruce, Stardust, West Sullivan from Union to Fifteenth, Sunrise from Stardust to VanBuren, Terrace, North Third (300 block), Twelfth, Twenty-first, Twenty-fourth, Times Square, North Union Street Extension, Van Buren, Washington, Wayne and York.
During a Snow Event, an owner of a motor vehicle who resides at a premise that does not have a driveway is permitted to park their vehicle in any city owned public parking lot free of charge during the Snow Event, the mayor said.
The fine for any violation is $75 and will be imposed on the registered owner of the vehicle. The fine is in addition to any costs for removal and storage payable to any towing company engaged to remove a vehicle under this section.
The Snow Event will remain in effect until further notice, Sherburne said.
Declaring this snow event will assist the city’s Streets Division with their work to finish cleaning up the accumulated snow on the streets and in the public parking lots, she said.
The streets division has been actively plowing the streets since mid-morning on Sunday, Sherburne said. The effort has varied between two and four primary snow plow trucks, augmented with up to three smaller trucks handling dead end streets and parking lots.
The scheduling of these trucks was based on the forecast snow fall, and concentrated the effort during the overnight hours. Snow removal work is more efficient during the overnight hours when traffic on the streets is a minimum. The crews will continue to pursue this clean-up effort during the normal work shift today (Monday), the mayor said.
Crews will be back on duty tonight plowing where needed and removing accumulated snow from public parking areas around the city.
