Mayor Marty Walsh is suspending the native ritual of reserving a snow-shoveled parking space for 48 hours after its been dug out.

News of the mayor’s stance comes as parking tensions continue to run at destructive highs. Many alleged parking space poachers are reporting slashed tires at a rate that’s inspired The South End Forum, an umbrella organizations for several community groups, to create a fund to aid people at the receiving end of this kind of vandalism.

“I don’t know when we’re going to lift that,” Walsh told the Boston Herald of a relaxed 48 hour practice, which was a compromise to the informal law of the land under Mayor Tom Menino’s administration.

Mayor Walsh is laxing on the parking rule because in places like South Boston, where the roads are narrowed due to mountainous snowbanks and streets have been turned to one-way only for public safety reasons, locals are having trouble finding resident only parking.

This essentially gives them permission to utilize a spot for longer.

“There’s no parking out there in the city,” Mayor Walsh told the Herald further. “There are snowbanks in the city that just haven’t melted at all.”

Boston has received more than 90 inches of snow this season, the lion’s share of which came in February, and as accumulation totals stand make it within reach of the snowiest season ever recorded at over 107 inches.