Here’s the press release with the Bill de Blasio spin:

Today, the City Council passed a bill which will suspend alternate
side parking rules during snowstorms, when the Department of Sanitation
(DOS) has to suspend its street sweeping activities. Councilmember Bill
de Blasio released the following statement on the bill’s passage:

 

"We all know how hard it is to find a parking spot in the City, and in inclement weather it can be nearly impossible.  Once there is a lot of snow on the ground, we can’t expect residents to be able to move their snowed-in cars to a new spot. Fining them for not doing so when alternate side parking rules are in effect is completely unfair. Suspending
alternate-side parking rules when there is enough snow to require
plowing of City streets is a common sense measure that will benefit
thousands of New Yorkers this winter, and I am proud to have supported
it today," said Councilmember Bill de Blasio.