Dover, NH Proposes Free Parking for Veterans: Here’s the Plan

DOVER – U.S. military veterans would be able to park for free for three hours in city parking lots as part of a proposal being considered by Dover officials.

The Dover Parking Commission-backed plan calls for people with New Hampshire veteran license plates, used by the person eligible for those license plates, to receive free parking in metered spaces for “not to exceed three hours per day.”

If approved, the proposal would add military veterans to the regulation, along with Purple Heart and Gold Star recipients, prisoners of war and survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941.

“Any vehicle bearing license plates from another state or territory of the United States bearing substantially equivalent government license plates shall, provided the vehicle is in use by the person eligible for said specialty license plates, also be entitled to no more than three hours per day of free parking in metered parking lots,” the ordinance states.

The city’s parking commission approved the proposal on Feb. 20. The City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to move the proposed ordinance change to a second reading and public hearing on May 8.

Paid parking applies in Dover from Monday to Saturday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. There is no paid parking on Sundays.

Tied into the proposed ordinance change is a pitch to impose a one-way restriction on a portion of Fifth Street, which was approved to go to a second reading and public hearing next month, along with the veteran parking payment plan.

The westbound traffic restriction would run on Fifth Street from the intersection with Chestnut Street to the intersection with Fourth Street.

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