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#Post#: 2334--------------------------------------------------
street parking
DIR By: MOM21SON
Date: May 19, 2018, 7:53 pm
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IMO, my neighbor is being rude.
Most of the houses in our subdivision have single driveways so
there is street parking. There are no assigned spots. In the 2
years we have lived here, it has never been a issue. People, us
included tend to park one car in the driveway and one car parked
in front of your house.
Sometimes during holidays or weekends, things get switched up
but no big deal.
Well, my neighbor has been away for a week, today is day 7. The
have both cars parked on the street. One in front of their
house and one in front of ours. Their driveway has been empty
all week. One of us has been parking several houses away all
week. It's fine, it happens.
But today, it is driving me nuts!
If there has been a car in the driveway, we certainly haven't
seen one. I leave at 730 am and home at 515. DH leaves at 830
am and gets home around 7 pm. DS uses uber or our cars and
leaves around 9 am and gets home between 10-1030 pm.
Am I just in a mood or are they being rude?
Just a small update. This is the pattern now. One car in
driveway, one car in front of their house and one car in front
of ours. DS bought a car today and we got home at a odd hour.
So DH is in front of our house, I am in front of their house and
DS is in the driveway. We have no intention of continuing this
pattern. We get it is first come first serve. And I will never
ever live in a house again with a single driveway.
#Post#: 2338--------------------------------------------------
Re: street parking
DIR By: Pattycake
Date: May 19, 2018, 7:58 pm
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It's kind of rude, in a try-to-be-a-good-neighbour way, but in
most jurisdictions you don't own the street in front of your
home so unfortunately, neighbours can park where ever, even if
they have a driveway.
#Post#: 2375--------------------------------------------------
Re: street parking
DIR By: guest264
Date: May 19, 2018, 9:36 pm
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You can't just park a car for 7 days on the street here. That's
calls for abandonment and if you were really put out by this,
you could report the cars as such. It's not rude to make people
follow the public parking regulations. Here you have to move
your car every 72 hours or they assume it's abandoned or broken
down, both are not acceptable around here.
Look into your town's rules and regulations.
I had this issue but it wasn't a neighbor, we had a RV move into
the area and squat until we put in a report. So I read up about
the rules at that time.
It's bizarre they don't have one in the driveway unless perhaps
they have a house-sitter that they are expecting to use it but
they have been using Uber instead? It's so unsafe to have no car
in your driveway and be obviously gone for a week.
#Post#: 2382--------------------------------------------------
Re: street parking
DIR By: guest158
Date: May 19, 2018, 9:44 pm
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If there's no local regulation saying you can't, then its not
rude. Inconvenient, sure, but not rude.
#Post#: 2391--------------------------------------------------
Re: street parking
DIR By: Thrabalen
Date: May 19, 2018, 10:01 pm
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--- Quote from: Usernamehere link ---
>
> If there's no local regulation saying you can't, then its not
rude. Inconvenient, sure, but not rude.
>
--- End Quote ---
I disagree with this... etiquette goes beyond local regulations.
If the etiquette until this point has been that you don't park
in front of another person's house, then doing so is rude. Where
I live, the etiquette is that if a parking street is "marked"
(that is, an object sits in said spot), then you park somewhere
else. It's considered rude to move that object to curbside and
park there. In other areas, the very idea of claiming a spot is
unheard of. (Of course, those places usually have driveways, or
room to park more than one car in front of your own house.)
#Post#: 2392--------------------------------------------------
Re: street parking
DIR By: mmswm
Date: May 19, 2018, 10:02 pm
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There's regulation here as well for the amount of time a car can
be parked in the same place on the street. Their cars would
have been booted and towed by now in my area of town.
I do think that parking their cars on the street, particularly
in front of somebody else's house, and then leaving for a week
is thoughtless and self centered at best, and could definitely
be considered rude, though I don't know if it's automatically
rude.
#Post#: 2398--------------------------------------------------
Re: street parking
DIR By: guest158
Date: May 19, 2018, 10:09 pm
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--- Quote from: Thrabalen link ---
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> [quote author=Usernamehere link=topic=182.msg2382#msg2382
date=1526784285]
> If there's no local regulation saying you can't, then its not
rude. Inconvenient, sure, but not rude.
>
--- End Quote ---
I disagree with this... etiquette goes beyond local regulations.
If the etiquette until this point has been that you don't park
in front of another person's house, then doing so is rude. Where
I live, the etiquette is that if a parking street is "marked"
(that is, an object sits in said spot), then you park somewhere
else. It's considered rude to move that object to curbside and
park there. In other areas, the very idea of claiming a spot is
unheard of. (Of course, those places usually have driveways, or
room to park more than one car in front of your own house.)
[/quote]
In my experience, even in areas with no off street parking, you
can't 'reserve' a spot. However I appreciate that your
experience may differ. I guess in response to your post, if you
are new to the area or a visitor, how are you supposed to know
the local etiquette?
#Post#: 2399--------------------------------------------------
Re: street parking
DIR By: Thrabalen
Date: May 19, 2018, 10:13 pm
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--- Quote from: Usernamehere link ---
>
> [quote author=Thrabalen link=topic=182.msg2391#msg2391
date=1526785312]
> [quote author=Usernamehere link=topic=182.msg2382#msg2382
date=1526784285]
> If there's no local regulation saying you can't, then its not
rude. Inconvenient, sure, but not rude.
>
--- End Quote ---
I disagree with this... etiquette goes beyond local regulations.
If the etiquette until this point has been that you don't park
in front of another person's house, then doing so is rude. Where
I live, the etiquette is that if a parking street is "marked"
(that is, an object sits in said spot), then you park somewhere
else. It's considered rude to move that object to curbside and
park there. In other areas, the very idea of claiming a spot is
unheard of. (Of course, those places usually have driveways, or
room to park more than one car in front of your own house.)
[/quote]
In my experience, even in areas with no off street parking, you
can't 'reserve' a spot. However I appreciate that your
experience may differ. I guess in response to your post, if you
are new to the area or a visitor, how are you supposed to know
the local etiquette?
[/quote]
If you're new/a visitor, allowances would be made (much like you
wouldn't expect a visitor from a foreign land to know the local
customs of your area.) Residents figure it out through osmosis
pretty quickly. :)
#Post#: 2407--------------------------------------------------
Re: street parking
DIR By: guest264
Date: May 19, 2018, 10:34 pm
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I have finally been in the city long enough that I just went
wide eyed at the idea of marking spots! I can see how that would
work for a small community that didn't have a lot of people with
a lot of visitors coming and going at all hours like we have
around here.
It's rude to just park anywhere for a week unless it's your
driveway, in front of your house or in a reserved spot. Parking
is a premium in most places I've been in and that's a good way
to burn the goodwill of neighbors out if you just hog premium
spots.
#Post#: 2496--------------------------------------------------
Re: street parking
DIR By: Isisnin
Date: May 20, 2018, 11:13 am
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they could be gone another week or two. check your local
regulations as per the other posters. If they have parked beyond
the legally allowed time, you could report the cars. Our city is
a 72 hours limit. Then they get ticketed with a 24 or 48 hour
notice of towing.
If they had taken the spot in front of their house and parked
the other car somewhere else on a public street (we have a few
side streets that hardly anyone ever parks on), I'd say not
rude. But in front of your house - rude.
Curious - do they have a garage?
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