Indeed. The city is caught in the middle between the city and the citizens. It's a shame, but what can you do?
Touted to us as an example of a Democrat run city that really works - yeah right!
The bureau doesn’t issue tickets unless residents complain and, often, those complaints aren’t prompted by people who park in driveways but by those who create cement or gravel parking pads in front of their homes.
And the real story comes out. It always does when you read. I can just imagine the mess they make and obviously the neighbors who pay a mortgage and property taxes don’t want to see a bunch of cars next door.
What about Driving on parkways?..............
Just insane.
By and large I have no sympathy for them; they keep voting this type of crap in, over and over and over...
how I feel about this depends on what were the rules when these people bought these homes?
If they bought the homes after such a law was passed then it’s fine.
However if they bought their homes then then this law was passed, that’s a whole other matter.
I personally HATE people who park in their driveways. Nothing trashes up a neighborhood more than people who park in their driveways and/or the street. Especially when they have a perfectly good garage, but can’t use because they have filled it will a bunch of crap.
Nothing screams bad neighborhood quite like cars parked in the driveways. Always drive through any neighborhood your thinking of moving to after 5pm to ensure it’s not that kind of neighborhood.
You don’t own your property. You are just allowed to use it while the government says you can, and how the government says you can. But you pay for it, and the taxes too.
In the World to Come, maybe there won’t be any garages. No need, because there won’t be any thieves, bad weather, UV rays, or shortage of workshop, workout, and storage spaces about the homes.
The primary benefit (of not having a garage) in such a place, is that those who would hate their neighbors for leaving their cars/trucks/boats outside, will have zero interest in living there. Screened out from the get-go. :)
He used a badly worded ordinance that was supposed to stop people from parking junk cars in their yards.
People have been parking their camping vehicles in their yards around here for decades with no problem. BUT the town is out of money being lots of people are out of work (no income taxes) and property values falling (lower property tax revenue) and business closing up right and left (no sales tax and business tax money).
So the obvious answer is to make lawful activity unlawful so as to generate revenue.
When someone put a cement block through the idjit's windshield with a note attached telling him to stop with the fines now or suffer the consequences, suddenly the city realized the ordinance didn't say what they thought it did and the Service Director got fired.
....and this is why one should not support government-loving busybodies, regardless of party or level of government.
I’m glad that I don’t live in the city. Too many people, too close together is a recipe for insanity.