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.
“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.
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Ok, with all due respect, that has got to be the most insane thing I’ve read on FR in a loooong while.
Parking in a driveway makes a neighborhood “trashy”? So if you have a home with no garage, and you own more than one car, or maybe the garage is a workshop, then it’s a sign of a bad neighborhood?
Are you kidding? And you have the gall to call yourself a freeper? You're certainly NOT a conservative. You sound more like a pompous, elitist snob! I bet you just cringe at play/swing sets in the backyard. How about fences....do you hate those too?
How about the guy who parks his 21 foot fishing boat in the driveway?
I applaud CC&R’s that our community has?
How about parking commercial vehicles in the driveway like plumber’s truck.
It’s a residential property not a parking lot. Go rent a space at the storage lot for your toys
You really should move to a neighborhood with a really strong HOA so you can get yourself elected to its board and enforce all your petty little likes and dislikes on your neighbors.
“Nothing screams bad neighborhood quite like cars parked in the driveways.”
How elite of you. I feel like saying screw you, but I won’t.
Not all of us can afford enough garage to hold all of our cars!
What do you do if you have a one car garage and need two cars? Not everybody can sell their house and buy one with a larger garage.
And, by the way, we never have a car in our driveway, so this isn’t personal.
Looks like you have ruffled some feathers with these comments. I do not believe that “cars parked in the driveways” and on the street are indicative of “bad neighborhood”. The people across the street, good Catholics, have five kids, two are now driving, one in college, one in high school. They truly need at least four cars. Their very nice house has a 2-car garage. What should they do? We often have a car in the driveway at our house. By the way, the house next door just sold for asking price after less than a week on the market.
A neighborhood is characterized much more by the type of people, their ethics, morals, beliefs. We live in a very solid middle-class (maybe “upper middle clsss”?) area, where the kids are home at night, everyone graduates from high school, a good percent serve in the military, most become college graduates within 4-5 years of high school graduation. The people take care of their homes and lawns, work hard, pay taxes, and vote conservatively.
I suppose there are those who would rather live in some liberal, uppity, nanny-state neighborhood where no cars can be found on the street or in driveways. And it seems like you think that would be a better place to live. But many FReepers will disagree with you.
You must be from Austin, Houston or Dallas. The rest of the state still has some respect for private property.
I have lived in Michigan, Alaska, Wyoming, Arizona, Texas, Georgia, Maryland and New York.
I have NEVER heard anyone upset about people parking their own vehicles in their own driveway. Until your post, I had never imagined that this could even be an issue.
YOU have a problem.
Change parties, join the DU, and cuddle up with Bloomburg. You’re no FReeper.
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I can't say that has ever bothered me.
I spent my youth in one of the nicest neighborhoods in this country, Sands Point Long Island. Plenty of cars parked in driveways. You are full of it.