Who Are The Professionals At City Hall?

Between 3:00 yesterday afternoon (when I took the lead picture) and 10:00 this morning, either DPW or HPD (or a combination of the two) posted a few wooden orange NO PARKING signs -- in the snow! -- among several parked cars in the "parking" area where for the past month the city has had no problem with valeted cars from the nearby Pocketbook Hotel being parked overnight and during the day.  Friday's snowstorm was the first major one since the PBH's valeted cars began showing up in the lot (the 4 inches that fell early in the month doesn't count as major).

19 hours later, orange NO PARKING signs posted. 

Did DPW Superintendent Rob Perry decide yesterday that the PBH's parked cars in the lot were no longer welcome or acceptable because they were now hampering his department's efforts to clear our streets of Friday night's 9 inches of snow by ultimately dumping it in the lot, just as DPW has been doing forever?  Isn't this the precise problem I speculated about in yesterday's post about the lot prior to the arrival of the signs?  Are the orange signs Rob's indirect way of telling Sean Roland and Gabe Katz of the PBH to keep their fucking valeted cars parked on Washington, Franklin, Prospect, 6th or anywhere else except in his critical and much needed (right now!) snow dump lot?  

Are the orange signs yet another indication of Hudson City Hall in full dysfunctional breakdown mode?  It sure looks like it to me.

This morning, as I was taking pictures in the lot, I struck up a conversation with a Washington Street resident out for a walk.  Suffice is to say, the resident is not at all happy about the new parking (and other) issues brought to the neighborhood by the PBH business complex.  Angry might be the word to describe their feelings.  But we both shared a good laugh about the city's absurd effort to keep cars from being parked in the Firestation lot.  

Apparently, the two permanent NO PARKING signs that have been posted in the lot likely for decades just aren't getting the message across to Sean and Gabe. 

One of two things happened about a month ago.  Either the PBH got permission from the city (likely Captain David Miller at HPD) to park their valeted cars in the lot, or they just decided to park their guests' cars in the lot and no one from the city said anything to them about it.  Whatever the case was, it makes all the sense in the world that someone from the city was forced to post temporary NO PARKING signs in the lot at least 15 hours after the snow stopped falling late Friday night, doesn't it?  How much time and effort did this take away from more pressing issues HPD and DPW should be dealing with?  They couldn't see this coming over a month ago?  How about four years ago when the PBH proposal was in front of the Hudson Planning Board?  It was all so obvious even then that the PBH would be a nightmare for the neighborhood!  Who knew the nightmare would also include city-owned property that city departments and the public have been relying on for decades?

This Police Commissioner's Order was released on the city's website (twice!) soon after PBH began parking their guests' cars in what is commonly referred to as the Firestation lot.  The only two signs in the lot indicate that it is for use only by the Hudson Fire Department.