The changes are separate to the main residents' parking zone which operates from Cotham Hill to Redland Road.

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"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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She seems to understand the daily frustrations of life in the controlled parking zone, and dealing with unbending officials at the town hall.

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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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Mayor Ferguson said the issue was how to define the city centre in order to decide where to draw the charging boundary but he hinted it was unlikely to be the size of the 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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The Cotham zone allows each household without off-street parking to apply for up to two permits.

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