Posted on 06/16/2009 10:05:28 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
TOLEDO, Ohio – Residents of Toledo, Ohio, are complaining that they received $25 tickets for parking their vehicles in their own driveways.
Mayor Carty Finkbeiner (FINK'-by-ner) says he stands by the citations handed out last week by the Division of Streets, Bridges and Harbor. He says the tickets were issued under a city law against parking on unpaved surfaces, including gravel driveways.
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Until I was most of the way through 3rd grade, we didn't have a paved driveway or paved street. The driveway was crushed rock, the street gravel. Worked fine, except it was hard to shovel out in the winter. The part of the city (of ~100,000) that we lived in had been built up since at least the early 1900s, most of the other nearby streets were paved, but not ours.
Our garage was constructed of reclaimed railroad boxcar panels. The fence around our dog run was contructed of the cross pieces from old railroad telegraph poles, san insulators, but with the "pegs" the insulators sat on serving as horizonatal "slats" for the fence. Did I mention that my Dad was a World Champion scrounger?
Of course, it'll be a "green" tax, since you do emit carbon dioxide with every breath. You'll need to purchase some "carbon credits" for that.
Meanwhile, stock up on lead, copper, brass and nitrocellulose credits.
>>a moving motor vehicle without driver and passengers wearing a helmet
hey, Eric, someone else agrees with me.
Though I do like some of your other suggestions, too.
In fact, Boston is now on the verge of a 25 feet of a commerical establishment ban on smokers, including entrances to bars, nightclubs and restaurants. The restaurant outdoor patio ban is pending.
My other suggestion is banning all smoking in cars; the violations will be numerous and the revenue stream rather lucrative.
Could somebody play the environmental angle and counter sue the city?
The issue would be increased runoff caused by paving. A gravel drive absorbs and holds rainwater. Flooding is attributed to sealing areas of surface. I don't know the terrain out there, but flooding and water quality make viable arguments.
They city might counter that oil leaks would be absorbed into the ground, but the counter would be the oil would be carried by the runoff.
Need any further evidence our country is well onto the back nine?
But even in third grade, I had the free run of the neighborhood. Now parents won't let their sixth graders walk around the block with others of their age group. Yea, things have improved sooo much. NOT!
And...
$10 added to your yearly property taxes for every square foot exceeding government (and/or UN) specifications on allowable space per occupant in your home. This may, of course, be somewhat mitigated by a purchase of carbon credits from Crazy Al’s Carbon Credit Emporium.
In CA, it is already illegal to smoke (a cigarette) with a minor in the car, subject to $100 fine.
And think of all the jobs that would be created!
We would need people with rulers to measure distances (and another set of people to double-check for quality control), people watching cameras placed in public washrooms to monitor hand washing (and then SWAT teams to swoop in to ticket the offender), road checkpoints to look for the unhelmeted, for people smoking with children in the car and/or windows open, and for gadgets of mass distraction). For some offenses, an ACORN-inspired army of accredited community activists could receive micro-compensation (10% of collected fine) for snitching on law breakers.
A stimulus more stimulating than a well-placed cattle prod.
Where I live, lately the garbage men have been emptying the recycle bins. The garbage truck rolls through in the morning and takes EVERYTHING, then the recycle truck comes along in the afternoon and has nothing to do.
Somebody should point out to him that gravel driveways meet the new stormwater permeability standards being sold to cities as a way to clean up their wastewater.
One way or another, you’re going to pay for this “hope” and “change”....
Paved driveway parking only? WTF??? Am I missing something?
LOL
Of course, this is likely true in YOUR city, town as well.
“Let me know when they get like California and propse criminalizing tobacco use at home and in the car if you have kids.”
Oh, I am sure it is in the works. It’s for the chillrun.
“And if you are drinking a beer, cleaning the interior of your car with the stereo on (the keys in the ignition, engine NOT running) you will be charged with a DUI.”
You forgot to add that you are cleaning your car while it is parked in your private driveway. Privelege to drive on public roads be dammed!
In Arizona, we lived on a gravel road, had a dirt driveway and no garage, same for most of the neighbors. If any of us had gotten a citation for parking on our own property per instruction from the mayor, the mayor would have had to immediately relocate out of state. I've not even heard about busy body HOA types who'd try something this crazy.
We went thru much the same thing here in san jose a few years back, they didn’t want any more parking areas added at your home or paved front yards to be put in ,,
Heck , here, they don’t want vehicles sitting in one spot on the streets for more than so many days, ya have to move them, running or not. it’s silly but..
This is just one more nip at the rights of owners of private property. but there are some limits that are good, no car parts&carcasses graveyard on the front and rear lawn for one. ;-)
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