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Remember when the Department of Transportation said that alternate side parking regulations might be suspended in Park Slope for much of the summer while signs were changed and the melodrama that ensued? Well, DOT is way ahead of schedule and the process has gone so smoothly in Gowanus and part of Carroll Gardens that few complaints have been heard. Yesterday, DOT announced the next phase of the changes, including the resumption of alternate side parking with new regs in Gowanus on August 25 and the suspension of the regulation in Cobble Hill and the rest of Carroll Gardens starting on August 18.

Here’s part of the release:

Effective Monday, August 18th, Street Cleaning/Alternate Side Parking (ASP) Regulations will be temporarily suspended in parts of Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens and other areas west of Court Street in Brooklyn’s Community Board 6 for three to five weeks as the Department of Transportation (DOT) installs 1,600 signs with new, reduced street-cleaning regulations. This is the third in a four-phase project to change signs throughout the community board.

In the Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill and Gowanus sections of Community Board 6 that are east of Court Street, where the second phase of this sign replacement project started on July 7th and is now complete, the 2,100 newly posted ASP regulations will become enforceable on Monday, August 25th, giving residents two weeks to adjust to the new rules.

In many cases, residential street-cleaning parking restrictions are being reduced from three-hour intervals to just 90 minutes, and from twice a week to just once a week, to ease parking for local residents. On commercial corridors, some streets will now be cleaned more often and regulations will be better coordinated to help ensure some curbside parking for local shoppers. The new rules were established by the Department of Sanitation.

CityRoom had a report on the changes yesterday.