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<p>The Wilkes-Barre Code of Ordinances says don&#8217;t put anything in the street to save the parking spot you spent all day shoveling clean.</p><p>But the threat of a ticket and fine up to $500 hasn&#8217;t stopped the practice of residents staking claims to patches of pavement they&#8217;ve cleared of snow. A drive through the city is proof with the number of chairs, garbage cans, cones and buckets lining the streets.</p><p>Sheldon Baboolal, 44, was out Friday afternoon with a shovel in front of his residence on Jones Street. He&#8217;s protecting two spaces earned through four or five hours of sweat equity.</p><p>&#8220;Since the snow day I&#8217;ve been cleaning up,&#8221; Baboolal said.</p><p>More snow was forecast for the weekend and Baboolal said he would be back out, adding to the mound made from the nearly two feet Winter Storm Stella left Tuesday. &#8220;I still got to keep it clean,&#8221; he said.</p><p>He hadn&#8217;t put his cones out yet, but would mark his spots off limits, especially to patrons of a bar on nearby Brown Street.</p><p>Sorry, but they have as much claim to the spots as Baboolal, according to City Administrator Ted Wampole.</p><p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no right to a parking spot. There is common courtesy,&#8221; Wampole said.</p><p>People should show courtesy and not pull into spots cleared by residents, he said.</p><p>Wilkes-Barre Police Department Chief Marcella Lendacky echoed Wampole&#8217;s comment, saying, &#8220;People should be respectful of their neighbors.&#8221;</p><p>Officers have the authority to write tickets because the obstructions in the roadway could cause an accident. But it hasn&#8217;t come to that yet. &#8220;We really don&#8217;t want to have to go there,&#8221; Lendacky said.</p><p>She was going to post a notice on the police department&#8217;s Facebook page reminding residents of the ordinance and to avoid shoveling snow in the roadway as well.</p><p>Across the Susquehanna River police will remove a parking spot marker from the street, said Kingston Administrator Paul Keating. There&#8217;s no ordinance, but residents are not to block the roadway with any type of object, he said.</p><p>In his travels through the municipality since the storm Keating said he has seen a few chairs in spots.</p><p>&#8220;That has not been a problem. I have not had a call,&#8221; he said. Instead, the complaints have been about snow removal.</p><p>Wilkes-Barre&#8217;s had them too from some of the residents in the 500 block of Madison Street where Gregory Falzone lives.</p><p>The one-way street still had some snow on it Friday and buried vehicles.</p><p>Falzone, 32, didn&#8217;t waste any time digging out after returning from vacation in Tampa, Fla.</p><p>&#8220;I completely missed the storm, but not all the clean up,&#8221; he said.</p><p>One of his two parking spots has handicapped signs, and he was working on that one. The other could wait, he said.</p><p>Falzone doesn&#8217;t have to mark his handicapped spot, but even with the signs people attending a nearby church try to pull in it.</p><p>&#8220;If somebody parks in my spot, I&#8217;ll come right out and tell them to move it or it&#8217;s going to be towed,&#8221; he said.</p><style>
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<div class="metaInfo"><subheadMeta>It&#8217;s illegal to put your chairs, cones and garbage cans in the road</subheadMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Jerry Lynott</p><p>jlynott@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p><ins>For other local news stories, <a href="https://www.timesleader.com/category/local" target="_blank">click here</a>.</ins></p><p>Reach Jerry Lynott at 570-991-6120 or on Twitter @TLJerryLynott.</p></shirttailMeta></div>

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