Posted on 09/12/2013 9:19:42 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Some Pittsburghers are being ticketed or warned not to park in their own driveways under an obscure ordinance that requires them to pay $225 for a permit if they wish to park within 30 feet of a street.
Some residents have complained about the tickets and warnings, which are issued by the city’s Bureau of Building Inspection.
The agency is caught in the middle, contend John Jennings, its acting chief. …
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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.
Yeah, the neighbors who chose, freely, to submit themselves to the same rules I do?
Yep, that's what I did (well, not the get on the board part). Voluntary self-governance by people with similar standards of property maintenance? What's not to like about that?
You want to live in a dump, cool; just please don't move in next to me.
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. :)
yep.
And if you had ever driven around town through both good and bad areas you would immediately see what I am talking about.
The surest sign of a neighborhood on the decline is the appearance of cars parked in the drive way and/or street. The sign of a neighborhood even further down the path to ghetoville are lawns that are no longer maintained.
You need to go drive through some new and/or really nice neighborhoods and you will immediately notice the difference.
Real estate investing is my business. And it can mean the difference between making money or losing it to ignore obvious signs of a neighborhood in decline.
I actually like play sets in the backyard where they belong and fences make good neighbors as far as I am concerned.
But if you want to park your vehicle in your front lawn, then I suggest buying some property in the country where you can live how you wish in your doublewide, and no one will bother you.
That describes my driveway. Mine is one of the only houses without cars parked in the street. A narrow residential street lined with parked cars is a pain in the butt to drive on, and a hazard to children running out into the street hidden by parked SUVs.
Save us from those wanting a mommy government to wipe their noses.
You both sound like HOA nazis to me! So much for you owning your property and me owning mine and having respect for each other.
Kozy, you talk about a plumber having his truck parked in his driveway. My father owned his own heating company when I was young and got called out on service calls all hours of the night. His business was 20 miles away from where we lived. Are you telling me that he shouldn’t have been allowed to have his truck at home so that when he got a call at 2 AM he’d have to go to the shop to pick up the truck even if the service call was 25 miles in the opposite direction from the house?
I’m certainly glad I’m not a neighbor to either of you. Heck, you’d probably complain about all my flowers, the American flag flying in front of my house (most HOA’s have restrictions on that) or some other piddly crap! I’m glad that I have “a life” and don’t have to make others feel small to make myself feel large-and-in-charge.
Anyone who doesn't want to be bound by them is free to buy property somewhere else.
Perhaps your idea of "respect" is moving into a neighborhood and then deciding afterwards that the rules already in place are for other suckers.
But that would make YOU sound like the NAZI.
Yes, because living in a neighborhood with small business owners like plumbers is so terrible. (sarcasm). I thought this website supported small business.
Watch out...your “elitist snob” is showing. What about older city neighborhoods where no one has a garage? Are they necessarily neighborhoods in decline? I think not! The lawns, by the way, are very well taken care of and it’s a great neighborhood.
Nope. Guess again! I refuse to move into any neighborhood with "protective covenants" so that I can be controlled with small-minded, control freak nazis like you. You sound like you'd be more comfortable with the likes of the Bloombergs and democrats over at DU rather than here at FR with freedom lovers and individualists.
“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.
Have nice day, sweetheart!
I guess it must be a regional thing.
One the the most well-off cities where I live (East Grand Rapids) have all manner of cars parked on the street and in driveways. Many of the homes are turn of the previous century next to expensive homes built just last year. Almost all of them have garages. In central Grand Rapids, just west of E. Grand Rapids, we have tons of early 20th century homes that only have basic horse carriage houses or garages built for Model Ts, and yuppies are fighting to get in. Everyone parks on the street on in their driveways.
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.
Not all houses have garages. Not all houses have driveways either. The absence or presence of either is not an indicator of whether a neighborhood is good or bad.
Yeap, I would complain about the plumber’s truck. It’s not a commercially zoned neighborhood. Here’s a suggestion; don’t take the business if it is 25 miles away.
While he is moving his car, get rid of th eRV and camper too.
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.
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