At the board's Sept. 10 meeting Taylor
asked both the Traffic Commission and the mayor-appointed Parking
Solutions Task Force to find a way to give short-term residents in
Somerville access to parking permits.

"I just want to make sure
these individuals are considered when it comes to these policies,"
Taylor said, adding later he still opposes citywide permit parking as a
whole.

Ward 6 Alderman Rebekah Gewirtz, a member of the
Parking Solutions Task Force, said one resident told her she may no
longer be able to rent a room to visiting graduate students who are
left out of a law permitting students to avoid registering their
vehicles in Massachusetts.

"It's very important not to overlook
this issue," Gewirtz said. "We can do better than that in Somerville,
and I demand we do better than that on the Parking Solutions Task
Force."

In another resolution passed on Sept. 10, the board
asked the city to make parking permits and visitor passes available at
senior housing complexes.