{"id":125153,"date":"2026-02-27T15:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/125153\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T15:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:16:08","slug":"allentown-to-step-up-efforts-to-address-items-left-in-the-street-to-save-parking-spots-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/125153\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown to step up efforts to address items left in the street to \u2018save\u2019 parking spots | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Allentown will soon be sending warnings to homes on streets with complaints of parking spot savers.<\/p>\n<p>Saving parking spots with items in the street is not allowed, the city said in a news release Friday.<\/p>\n<p>After the warnings are issued, the city says crews will be removing any items still left in the street to \u201csave\u201d parking spots.<\/p>\n<p>It is against city ordinance to have objects in the public right-of-way, according to the news release.<\/p>\n<p>The city says the objects can block emergency vehicles, street sweepers, and trash collection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHelp us keep streets safe and accessible for everyone,\u201d the city says.<\/p>\n<p>People with questions can call Engineering at 610-437-7576 or SWEEP at (610) 437-8729.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Allentown will soon be sending warnings to homes on streets with complaints of parking spot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,36382,58580,58581,58582],"class_list":["post-125153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-city-ordinance","tag-parking-spot-savers","tag-public-right-of-way","tag-street-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}