Parking Ban Announced In Hamden

HAMDEN, CT — A parking ban will be in effect in Hamden beginning at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 15 until 12 noon on Friday, Nov. 16, Mayor Curt Balzano Leng and Public Works Director Craig Cesare announced. The parking ban prohibits any person to park, or allow to remain parked, any vehicle on any odd numbered portion of a town street or highway.

The ban further prohibits any person to allow or permit a vehicle to stand or park on any town street or highway in such a manner as to constitute a hazard or obstruction to vehicular or pedestrian traffic. The Hamden Police Department is authorized, pursuant to Section 71.07 of the Code of the Town of Hamden, to remove any vehicle parked in violation of this ordinance. Such removal shall be at the risk and expense of the owner of the vehicle.

Additionally, the Hamden Transfer Station will be closed, effective Nov. 15, until further notice.

Officials also announced that warming centers will be offered around town to those in need. All Hamden Fire Stations and the Police Department front foyer will all serve as 24-hour warming centers. Additionally, during normal operating hours (8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.), the Keefe Center, Town Libraries, the foyer of the Police Department and the Government Center Building will also serve as warming center locations. See the entire list of warming centers below.

For more information, contact Fire Chief Merwede’s office at 203-407-5880 and in cases of emergency always call 911 for immediate assistance. Additionally, to obtain information regarding State warming centers, call 211.

Operating hours for the Miller Library are 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. Monday-Wednesday, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, and closed on Sundays. Branch Libraries are closed on Wednesdays and Sundays, please visit www.hamdenlibrary.org for complete operating hours of Branch Libraries. Operating hours for all other locations are 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday.

Warming Centers active at the following locations:

• Government Center - 2750 Dixwell Avenue, Hamden, CT 06518

• Miller Library Complex - 2901 Dixwell Avenue, Hamden, CT 06518

• Whitneyville Library - 125 Carleton Street, Hamden, CT 06517

• Community Branch Library - 91 Circular Avenue, Hamden, CT 06514

• Keefe Community Center - 11 Pine Street, Hamden, CT 06514

• Police Department - 2900 Dixwell Avenue, Hamden, CT 06518

• Fire Station 2 - 71 Circular Avenue, Hamden, CT 06514

• Fire Station 3 - 441 Hartford Turnpike, Hamden, CT 06517

• Fire Station 4 - 2372 Whitney Avenue, Hamden, CT 06518

• Fire Station 5 - 2993 Whitney Avenue, Hamden, CT 06518

• Fire Station 9 - 245 Johnson Road, Hamden, CT 06518

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