Joint sealing no parking notice?

**Funaho** · May-19-16, 07:31 PM

So the wife and I got home from shopping this evening and there were these flyers posted along our street [[Scotten, north of W. Vernor). I've attached a picture but the gist of it is "NO PARKING / JOINT SEALING ON STREETS WILL START ON [hand written] Friday DATE [hand written] 5-20". They weren't there when we left around 6, so these went up sometime between 6pm and 8pm. They don't mention the City; and there's none of the usual verbage we used to get on street cleaning notices about "No parking by order of...". There isn't even a start time...just "Friday 5-20".

We did notice some guys that seemed to be trying to get people to park in the lot for the old clinic at Scotten & Vernor, which we thought was a bit weird. Could this be a new scam to try to make a few bucks charging people for parking?

**Bobl** · May-19-16, 08:36 PM

Sure looks like a scam to me. I doubt a call to the police would have any results, though. Keep watching your back!

**RO_Resident** · May-20-16, 09:12 AM

You could try calling the Detroit Department of Public Works Street Maintenance Division [[313) 224-0033.

**Funaho** · May-20-16, 09:16 AM

My wife says they started doing stuff an hour or so after I left for work, so I guess it was real, just very poorly executed. My best guess is the contractors just tossed signs up themselves instead of going through official channels [[which probably also means they had no authority to ticket or tow anyone who didn't comply, but I wasn't there to find out.)