FTA:Only people who live in or are visiting a home may park in front of it from 2 to 8 a.m.

City officials say they'll only enforce the ordinance if they receive complaints.

Mayor Steve Mitchell said the ordinance should solve many of the problems that council members hear about, primarily that neighbors' cars make it impossible for residents and their guests to find on-street parking.


I know, I hate it when cities force people to cooperate and operate under reasonable restrictions based on reasonably equal rights to property. Horrible, subby, it's just horrible. You and I will fight the good fight against property!!!

Community! Liberty! Free-Riders!

What the hell does this have to do with freedom? If anything the libertarians who love maximizing freedoms should love the increased property rights of this idea.

Richardson. It's full of short-tempered chip designers and Fast and Furious types. I don't know why they need an ordinance. I wouldn't park in front of any random house there for fear of being shot.

This is hardly the worst city ordinance I've ever heard of. The street is city-owned and therefore public, but if they're having consistent problems... well, they did what any city would do: pass an ordinance.

sloppy shoes: I know, I hate it when cities force people to cooperate and operate under reasonable restrictions based on reasonably equal rights to property. Horrible, subby, it's just horrible. You and I will fight the good fight against property!!!

Too bad you don't own the street in front of your house. The people who live in said house shouldn't have any more right to that stretch of public-owned property than any other resident.

Funsucker: Too bad you don't own the street in front of your house. The people who live in said house shouldn't have any more right to that stretch of public-owned property than any other resident.

Actually in many places you do own the street in front of your house. IIRC in New York you do. The government merely has an easement on it.

That is generally considered to be illegal in Massachusetts -- public streets are public and open to all equally. Instead of enacting discriminatory ordinances my city bans all parking in certain places and relies on residents to tell police which cars should be ticketed. Which is probably also illegal but the targets are college kids and who cares?

Funsucker: sloppy shoes: I know, I hate it when cities force people to cooperate and operate under reasonable restrictions based on reasonably equal rights to property. Horrible, subby, it's just horrible. You and I will fight the good fight against property!!!

Too bad you don't own the street in front of your house. The people who live in said house shouldn't have any more right to that stretch of public-owned property than any other resident.

I never said they "own" the portion of street in front of their house, what I did say is that each person in a neighborhood should have a reasonably equal claim to a portion of that street. Physically placing ownership would be one way to resolve that- but demanding that people can't park as many cars as they want without their neighbors implicit approval would be another.

Didn't RTFA. I'm guessing since it's in the asshole of the USA you can now shoot people who park in front of your house?

As a guy who owns a house, has property access issues I'm a bit torn but understand what the GOVERNMENT is doing.

They won't enforce the ordinance unless the owner complains.

What I have done in the past is either leave a note or knock on doors until I find the owner of the car, politely ask that they move their vehicle.

I have to deal with this kinda crap all the time. My girlfriend lives on a street that has apartments on one side and houses on the other. Her apartment has off street parking, however she only gets one space so when I visit I have to find a spot on the street. I'll occasionally park across the street from her building if I can't find a spot.

I always end up with a note on my car telling me that I'm parking on the "home owner" side of the street and to never park there again. I laugh and throw it in the biatch's yard. I've already printed up the city ordinance on street parking, so next time it happens she can expect a highlighted packet on her doorstep at 8 a.m. sharp.

Try parking in front of your neighbors house in South Boston (especially after a snowstorm) They don't need no steeenking ordinances.

I find it mildly annoying if a neighbor leaves their car in front of my house for days at a time (it makes it a lot more of a pain in the ass to do yardwork), but thats pretty rare. Somebody parking in front of my house for a few hours or a day or two isn't a big deal. I'm not sure why people get uptight about it.

Karma Chameleon "...you can now shoot people who park in front of your house?"
You can shoot people in front of your house or anyone's house for that matter. Anywhere, really.

/Yes, yes... I'm a smart-ass.

Funsucker: sloppy shoes: I know, I hate it when cities force people to cooperate and operate under reasonable restrictions based on reasonably equal rights to property. Horrible, subby, it's just horrible. You and I will fight the good fight against property!!!

Too bad you don't own the street in front of your house. The people who live in said house shouldn't have any more right to that stretch of public-owned property than any other resident.

Yeah, in my town, we have 2 hour parking downtown. Every day this asshat who owns a trashy comic/knicknack/cheap wallhanger sword shop parks his POS van in front of my store and blocks the best parking so his fat ass doesn't have to walk more than 50 feet.

I am going to be talking to him about it this week, then I call the city. It will probably take them 2 months to do anything because of the built in laziness of our town hall.

So, yeah, there can be a problem with people abusing public parking.

If I owned a home and some POS vehicle were constantly parking in front of it because the POS owner doesn't work or never moves it, then there is a problem.

I guess people are misunderstanding the problem. It's not an issue just with parking. For example, in the two block over from me a couple parked their huge RV taking up 1/2 the block and are living in it to be next to their kids. It's farking BS. I've seen people pull up their pop-up camper and do the same thing. You wanna live on that street buy a home or rent something. But community streets are not for RV and camper living. I suspect that's the real problem here, not people visiting there SO overnight.

I've had to park a few blocks away from my apartment before. (we have steet parking only) Usually it is because there is a church service going on next door. So I am being a bad neighbor by parking my car in front of someone else's house overnight? I have lived in a few different cities in a few different states and have never run into this before. I always thought that street parking was fair game?

But what about my freedom to not have people park in front of my house, subby?

psh. Canada has had this for a long time. The trick is to park in front of two houses at the same time. Each house will just assume you're friends with the other house so it works.

Why dont you grow a little decency and not park near someone elses house you farking animals. Its a sad day when ME FIRST becomes the norm.

I hate it when people park in front of my house. They usually end up blocking my mail box. Which is very annoying. Not much i can do concerning that.

unless you're wealthy. then u can park where ever you goddamn well please.

its not about YOUR Freedom, its about THEIR Freedom.

filth: I wouldn't park in front of any random house there for fear of being shot.

Random House must be one mean-as-a-snake publisher.

I hate when strangers park in front of my house and block my voicemail.

So many alarmist idiots here.

It's not about freedom you tools, it's about simple parking violations. You can't have 3 cars on the street blocking me from having one. Don't be a douchebag.

ZAZ: That is generally considered to be illegal in Massachusetts -- public streets are public and open to all equally. Instead of enacting discriminatory ordinances my city bans all parking in certain places and relies on residents to tell police which cars should be ticketed. Which is probably also illegal but the targets are college kids and who cares?

I have a friend from Quincy who used to leave a crappy old chair in "her" spot on a little side street next to her house.

In FL they passed a law that you couldn't park in front of your own house if you had a driveway. They never enforced it though.

my neighbor used to let the air of people's tires for parking in front of his house.

Them Texans are an ornery bunch.

iaazathot: Funsucker: sloppy shoes: I know, I hate it when cities force people to cooperate and operate under reasonable restrictions based on reasonably equal rights to property. Horrible, subby, it's just horrible. You and I will fight the good fight against property!!!

Too bad you don't own the street in front of your house. The people who live in said house shouldn't have any more right to that stretch of public-owned property than any other resident.

Yeah, in my town, we have 2 hour parking downtown. Every day this asshat who owns a trashy comic/knicknack/cheap wallhanger sword shop parks his POS van in front of my store and blocks the best parking so his fat ass doesn't have to walk more than 50 feet.

I am going to be talking to him about it this week, then I call the city. It will probably take them 2 months to do anything because of the built in laziness of our town hall.

So, yeah, there can be a problem with people abusing public parking.

If I owned a home and some POS vehicle were constantly parking in front of it because the POS owner doesn't work or never moves it, then there is a problem.



/hot

ummu: psh. Canada has had this for a long time.

The what now? I've never heard of it. However, the cities where I live limit on-street parking to 3 hours (generally only enforced in areas around the downtown and around the universities)... and overnight parking is prohibited (enforced everywhere, especially after a snowfall). You can get temporary overnight parking permits for free though up to a certain number of nights per year (for when you have a few friends visiting you, or if you're paving your driveway, etc.)

/live in Ontario
//big snowfall last night
///parking on the street banned temporarily in order to allow the streets to be cleared of snow

Parking in front of my house overnight is fine. However, my neighbor does it to me all the time. And he has a driveway and a garage. But he parks his big ass truck on the street in front of my house for some unknown reason. If you buy a truck so big that even you dont want it in your own driveway, you're a farking moron.

GOOD LAW.

My neighbor has at least two monster trucks, and always seems to be driving around in a third. Plus his friends show up in theirs. His front yard only holds about 4 vehicles and the street out front another 1 or 2 depending on how they park.

My house must seems to have a sign on it that only they can see, reading "overflow parking".

When it's time for them to get their party on, well, I'm glad I park behind my house in the garage.

I guess I must have a different perspective living smack in the middle of Minneapolis, but the idea of saying "You can't park here 'cuz it's in front of MY house!" is farking retarded. Maybe this is more of a suburb-y problem. Even then though, it sounds like there is a parking space problem (not enough available overall) so why would they restrict where someone can park? "Oh sorry, the street is sort of filling up and you have a problem finding a spot, but even though there's a spot right over there, you can't park in it because that's a spot in front of someone else's house."

rytheran: Parking in front of my house overnight is fine. However, my neighbor does it to me all the time. And he has a driveway and a garage. But he parks his big ass truck on the street in front of my house for some unknown reason. If you buy a truck so big that even you dont want it in your own driveway, you're a farking moron.

Same deal here, except on top of it he sits out front of our house on Sunday mornings and proceeds to rev his engine for a while. So I don't get to park anywhere near my own house because his three cars take up so much space out front.

/We call him The Reverend, and when he beats his wife and kids, we call the cops

FTA: "I'm not sure this gets us where we want to be," Mr. Allison said. "I'd sure like to get the cars off the streets."

And put them where, exactly? On the sidewalk?

Trust me, it is a problem in Texas suburbs. You get asshats who have literally 8+ cars, and instead of parking 1/2 in their garage and another couple in the driveway, they park every farking one of them up and down the street, in front of mail boxes, fire hydrants, and yes, other peoples' houses. It's really irritating coming home from work and not even being able to park in front of your house because some inconsiderate asshat of a neighbor thinks the street is his personal driveway. It's also annoying when the farker parks in front of the mail box, and the mailperson gets irritated and doesn't deliver the mail, and sticks complaint card about parking in front of the mailbox in MY box. So yeah, hooray for this law, hope it gets passed in my city.

mason4300: Trust me, it is a problem in Texas suburbs. You get asshats who have literally 8+ cars, and instead of parking 1/2 in their garage and another couple in the driveway, they park every farking one of them up and down the street, in front of mail boxes, fire hydrants, and yes, other peoples' houses. It's really irritating coming home from work and not even being able to park in front of your house because some inconsiderate asshat of a neighbor thinks the street is his personal driveway. It's also annoying when the farker parks in front of the mail box, and the mailperson gets irritated and doesn't deliver the mail, and sticks complaint card about parking in front of the mailbox in MY box. So yeah, hooray for this law, hope it gets passed in my city.

Again, what the hell is the problem with someone parking in front of your house? Park behind them. Park in front of them. Park in front of their house and walk 20 extra feet. If you're so worried about them not parking in their driveways, why aren't you parking in your driveway?

Who greenlights this shiat?

I wish my neighbor would stop parking in front of my mailbox.

I don't mind if someone is parked in front of my house- I can pull in my garage, which I rarely use.

I live near a restaurant and what pisses me the fark off is not people who park near my house- that I understand. What I can't stand is people who for some reason pull off the street and up onto the sidewalk. They are tearing up the sidewalk, as well as making it impossible to walk on the sidewalk, but of course they don't give a damn because they don't have to live here.

It's called the "public right of way" for a reason. If on-street parking is a problem, YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.

wansu: I wish my neighbor would stop parking in front of my mailbox.

Break one of his windows, dump some gasoline in there, and set the car ablaze. But be sure you get your mail first. Don't want to accidentally burn that. Ed McMahon might want to give you money.

Since I live across the street from a train station, I would welcome a law like this that would be in effect all day.

//get off my curb

mama's_tasty_foods: I don't mind if someone is parked in front of my house- I can pull in my garage, which I rarely use.

I live near a restaurant and what pisses me the fark off is not people who park near my house- that I understand. What I can't stand is people who for some reason pull off the street and up onto the sidewalk. They are tearing up the sidewalk, as well as making it impossible to walk on the sidewalk, but of course they don't give a damn because they don't have to live here.

People park on the sidewalk because in many cases, if they were to park "properly", the street becomes impassable to modern vehicles. I could go outside and take pictures and show you examples of this.

Where in Louisiana do you live?

pedanticmofo

Break one of his windows, dump some gasoline in there, and set the car ablaze.

This happened on my street about 15 years ago. Evidently my neighbor had pissed somebody off, and it cost him 1 new (and uninsured) Mustang.

/I drove a Mustang back then, and mine and his were only parked two houses apart. I was glad the hit team got the right car.

God, Dallas sucks.

Karma Chameleon: Didn't RTFA. I'm guessing since it's in the asshole of the USA you can now shoot people who park in front of your house?

When did New Jersey become a suburb of Richardson?