Posted on 04/24/2009 1:29:17 PM PDT by gondramB
Beverly Anderson is mad as hell. She just started to get tickets for parking in her own driveway.
That's right. The District of Columbia is ticketing people who park their cars in their own driveways. ----
So what does the law say?
"Any area between the property line and the building restriction line shall be considered as private property set aside and treated as public space under the care and maintenance of the property owner."
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Basically what that means is most property owners in the District don't own the land between their front door and the sidewalk, but they are responsible for taking care of it. It's why you can get a ticket for drinking beer on your front porch in the Nation's Capital. You're technically on public space. It's also why the city can ticket you for parking in your own driveway
(Excerpt) Read more at wtop.com ...
>>As for the offer to lease the public space back to the property owner, John Lisle with the District Department of Transportation says there is an application process for such a permit. Lisle says it could cost a property owner thousands of dollars per year, but very few applications have been submitted over the years. <<
I criticized too quickly - apparently the DC government will let you lease your own driveway back for only a few thousand dollars per year. /sarc
Well, just damn. Now I won’t be moving to D.C. /sarc
Must be in one of those “homeowner assn” neighborhoods. Little Hitler communities where one can practice to become a dictator....
Holy mackerel.
Hey, start writing tix for smoking in the area and you might increase revenue, a little, since in America we now marry fags, we don’t smoke ‘em. (at least not in public, not yet!)
Remember, they want to be a State too!
And the people stockpiling guns and ammo are “nuts”.
>>Must be in one of those “homeowner assn” neighborhoods. Little Hitler communities where one can practice to become a dictator....<<
You know, I get the impression its the the whole darn city.
Imagine the quandary of figuring out where to park your car???
The DC ruling junta will not be denied in pursung tax revenue
I hope a good lawyer knocks them silly
Too bad for the 'rats in DC. They know not about where to get pitchforks and torches much less what they are and to what uses they can be put.
If I were a 'rat (snowball's chance..., etc.) I get the heck outa there in a heartbeat.
What is the reason for not allowing people to park in driveways? The purpose of driveways is for car parking. Do they put “no parking” signs up? If not, how can they issue tickets? The whole thing is absurd. Makes me want to cuss someone out! I can’t believe where this nation has gone in the area of no common sense. I think this must be some kind of joke, or someone is trying to make a point.
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>>Hey, start writing tix for smoking in the area and you might increase revenue, a little, since in America we now marry fags, we don’t smoke ‘em. (at least not in public, not yet!)<<
If this stands they could ticket and prohibit all kinds of things. Christmas decoration on what effectively is public land, even though it used to be your front yard? Think of the money they could raise or the people they could put in jail.
They’ve even ticketed their own congresswoman.
>>It seems Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton has also been breaking the law in the eyes of the D.C. Department of Public Works.
“Not only has the Congresswoman been ticketed in her own driveway, she has received a towing ticket on her car parked in her driveway,” writes Sonsyrea Tate Montgomery, a spokesperson for Norton.<<
Wouldn’t your front porch necessarily be behind the building restriction line. Therefore how could this law be the reason you can be ticketed for drinking on your front porch?
And bust people for drinking on their property, too.
Here in MA, someone I know got popped for DUI AFTER they pulled into the driveway, turned off the car, got out and and were entering their house.
John Locke may be crying.
Didn’t it used to be great to live in a free country?
“It’s why you can get a ticket for drinking beer on your front porch in the Nation’s Capital.”
Communists.
What has become of this nation?
>That’s right. The District of Columbia is ticketing people who park their cars in their own driveways.
This is not unheard of, the campus police on the university here in town are notorious for ticketing students who live in student housing for not having a parking sticker, or visitors who don’t have a sticker.
>”This is clearly an attempt by the city to extort money out of property owners,” Anderson tells WTOP.
Totally disgusting.
>When Anderson complained to a supervisor at DPW she was told that she could lease the property from the District and avoid future tickets.
Hm, so the Government wants you to pay it for using your own property? What does this say about our government?
>And no word on whether Norton might invoke her congressional privilege and ask that her ticket be excused.
Congressional privilege is only applicable while IN one of the houses, or traveling to/from them... Sorry, but that doesn’t count all the time you’re away from the House.
I don’t think it matters how long the stupid law has been on the books. You can’t “take” property without just compensation. If this was private land and the DC Council passed a law to this affect, it can be easily fought in court.
I’m not a lawyer, but this is why we have a Constitution. (or at least why we used to).
On the other hand, if it was public land and sold to private owners with those restrictions, then it is a different story.
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