"If your house became a controlled parking zone overnight, you wouldn't expect to be fined for parking there yesterday, " a spokesperson said.

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The residents, who live opposite County Hall, have begun a petition to ask Leicestershire County Council to make the area a no-parking zone.

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In the basement, Roy found a half-full can of paint his father had used to mark the curb out front as a no-parking zone.

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The council is considering extending a nearby residents' parking zone.

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Collins was attacked at gunpoint at a University of Nevada-Reno parking garage in a gun-free zone located 50 feet away from the campus police department office in October 2007.

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