How Do I Know When a Parking Ban is in Effect?
There are several ways the public may be notified that the Ban is currently in effect:
Lighted Visual Signal - A blinking amber light located on the front face of Town Hall (with your back to the Oval, the light is on the left side of the front of Town Hall) will be lit when the Ban is in effect, and will remain lit until the current Ban period is no longer in effect.
Automated Notification to Personal Mobile Devices via Nixle Service - Notification will be sent to anyone with a mobile device who has signed up with Milford’s community notification program utilized through Nixle. Nixle is a free notification service that the town has partnered with that sends emergency information to its subscribers as needed. When users subscribe to this service they designate by what means they receive emergency/urgent information (to a mobile phone, via email, or over the web). This service will send a notice that the Ban is in effect, but will also notify of any developing emergency situations (flooding, hurricanes, emergency evacuations, etc.). The service is free and subscriber info/email addresses/mobile numbers and/or your personal information will not be sold to third parties.
For more details on the benefits of using Nixle and how to subscribe please see the town’s web site at Fire Department/Office of Emergency Management/Community Notification Program via Nixle.
For specific details or questions regarding Milford’s community notification program utilized through Nixle, please contact the Fire Department /Office of Emergency Management at 249-0680.
Web Site - A notice may be posted on the front page of Milford’s official web site and will appear in an off-white box, with a bold red border located directly under the dark green main menu bar that lists ‘Town’, ‘Departments’, ‘Residents’, ‘Business’.
TV Broadcast - A constant streaming notice may be displayed on Milford’s PEG Access channels (Comcast Cable channels 20 and 21) along the bottom of the screen in a black bar with white text. A full screen ‘bulletin board’ type message will periodically be viewable amongst the other full screen messages in a rotating schedule. The bulletin board message will show a winter scene and will have the notification text in it.
While the Snow Removal Parking Ban is in effect these communication streams shall maintain/display the Snow Removal Parking Ban notice. Once it is determined that snow removal has been completed the notice will be removed from the web site, notification will be sent via the phone/email based information service, and the indication light on Town Hall will be shut off as necessary.