On Monday, March 2, the City of Boston will collect lingering parking space savers along with trash pick up marking an end to the practice of claiming dominion over a piece of pavement to park one’s car using a random object.

“The City of Boston has seen an unprecedented amount of snow in the past month, impacting many aspects of our daily lives, including making parking difficult,” said Mayor Marty Walsh in statement last week.

Throughout much of this season’s historic weather – you know, the 100-plus inches of snow since January and ongoing freezing temperatures – Bostonians have been abiding by, if not loosely following, the 48-hour rule instituted by Mayor Tom Menino which allows people who spend time shoveling out a space roughly 2 days to use it.

But the constant onslaught of snow and ice have made it difficult for people to let go of the space they shoveled after that timeframe and in the South End, for example, where a neighborhood group tried to outlaw the practice, a fund is being raised for people whose vehicles have been vandalized for

“If you spend hours digging out your parking space, you should have access to that space for a reasonable time period,” added the mayor. “I’m asking residents to remain respectful of their neighbors and their property as the process of space saver removal begins, and as we continue to clean up from nearly 8 feet of snow in less than 30 days.”

According to the Boston Globe, some residents won’t be relinquishing their dug out space quielty. In South Boston in particular, where narrow streets and mountainous snowbanks have forced the city to turn two-way driving roads into one-way only for traffic purposes, people seem even more combative.

“If the mayor can dig out all of Boston for a Patriots parade, well [he can] dig out all of Southie so we can have our parade, too,” one Southie resident told The Globe.

An unofficial poll taken by over 1,100 BostInno readers shows that more than 56 percent are in favor of parking space savers.