Lives on a public street w/strangers parking in front of their of their house?

[plennis]

We have been having a lot of those problems lately.  Are neighborhood streets is a dead end about 2 blocks long with 2 cul-de-sacs.  The houses are are older and very big, 5 - 6 bedrooms.  The house next to us has 6 bedrooms and they added a Mother-In-Law house in the back yard.  The parking had been for 2 cars n the drive way and 2 in the garage.  They build the garage in so now they are renting the garage, the mother in law house and all 6 bedrooms out.  With only 2 parking spaces.  so they park everywhere on the blocks.  Another problem we have with the parking is 5 churches on the block and a half at the start of our street.  So since they all have small parking lots, they think it is ok to park all over our street.  You cannot have people over on Sunday or Wednesday evening because the street is so full.  The street narrows at one point to the last cul-de-sac, these church parkers are so rude they park right to the corner so that we cannot get into our street.  Lately every Sunday they have been towing cars from that spot.  And in a few minutes after they are parked there again.  We are trying to get a special zoning for NO CHURCH PARKING.  Several other streets in our area have this, we just have to go through all the paperwork.

[minioncookies]

Hmm Since there in there car watching public street or not you could have police called out to investigate them because you dont know really if they are there for the other people or they might be there to watch see your habbits so they can rob you. Call police saying there's a strange car outside my house and if its been there for days on in say it. They will have to come out see why they are there and if they have no valid reason they will be asked to leave public street or not. Also petition the city to parking signs for residents only that way you never have that issue again.

[sgluckadoo]

It's a pain living on a public street because you do get strangers parking in front of your home.  They don't even have the decency to introduce themselves or ask if you need the spot since it is your home they are parking in front of (especially in my neighborhood when they don't even live in it they live in the townhouse neighbor a block away).  I got rid of one jerk but like bugs, now I have another that parks his van in front of my home and it’s directly in front of my mailbox not quite blocking my driveway.  He’s usually out of there before my mail-mail arrives so that’s not what bothers me.  And he doesn’t park there for the weekend because the ruling is three days not touched and the police can tow it away like an abandoned vehicle so come Sunday I can call the police.  No, what bothers me is because he’s using my mailbox as his private parking spot on Wednesday nights he puts his lousy hands all over my private trash bin that I put in a location that is convenient for both myself and my garbage man, and moves it just so that he could pull his piece of crap van front of my house.  It’s a street not a parking lot!  Your car don’t fit in the spot you move down the road.  Or better still, park where you live!  You certainly don’t put your filthy hands all over someone’s private property trash bin to move it to a location convenient for you so you park your piece of crap in front of a PRIVATE HOME to a family you don’t know on a street of which you don't live!   

Rude and inconsiderate for sure. I guess in some areas where parking is a challenge and there is only street parking, you are more prone to things like this. I have people park in front of my house too, but I have a driveway I can park in and so does everyone else in the neighborhood, so it is usually someone visting my neighbor.

[MichelleHW101]

I know I live on a public street but that is no excuse for the lousy neighboring townhouses to use it as their private parking lot!  The only reason we left it as a public street is so that we, the single family home owners who live in this neighborhood, can park in front of our own home.  The townhouse people have certainly NO RIGHT to put their hands on any private property to the home owner be it a trash bin or a bag full of yard waste and move it because they ‘declared’ the spot in front of your private home, blocking your private mailbox, as THEIR personal parking spot!  It really gets me fuming that these townhouse people have NO respect for the home owner!  They act like they’re parking on a public street in DC and we, the homeowners who actually live in the neighbor have no right to put anything (IN FRONT OF OUR OWN HOME) in their spot! 

[MichelleHW101]

There is a difference between parking on a public street and parking in an enclosed single family home neighborhood.  At least to me anyway.  It gets me so mad the neighboring townhouse neighborhood parks not only in front of my mailbox, but now moves my trash be it yard waste or trash bins.  Whatever I put out to be collected by my trash company they move just so that they can park in front of my house.  I did call the police and unfortunately the cop who came lives in an apartment and basically said I have no right to obstruct a ‘parking space’ and told me to put my stuff on the side walk (which anyone who lives in a home knows you can’t) and my trash company told me they aren’t going to collect my trash if it’s on the sidewalk.  It must be in the street or near a curb in front of your house.  So the police are basically worthless because the law doesn’t side with the homeowner, and you as the homeowner have no right to defend what I consider as private property.  I mean I pay to have the trash collected and until it is, it is my responsibility, therefore my property.  I don’t want to get sued if 1) the person moving my trash gets hurt moving it 2) if someone from my actual neighborhood trips over it and gets hurt or 3) I back up with my car into all my trash then (worse case scenario) deflect into someone else’s car all because the townhouse neighborhood bought three cars knowing they are only allotted two parking spots!  It’s so frustrating because the law doesn’t defend the homeowner and it should!     

[MichelleHW101]

My problem with the neighboring townhouse area parking in my neighbor is, 1, my street does not connect to them so they are actually trespassing to come into my neighborhood and 2, they don’t respect the homeowner they are parking in front of since they don’t ask permission to park there and move whatever the homeowner puts in front of their own home.  They just see it as a street they can park on NOT as another neighborhood.  We all started putting up fences and getting home security systems because of that.  Our front yards have been littered with trash, and my neighbor’s son’s car was even broken into.  It just gets me angry that the police can’t do anything and the law doesn’t protect us. 

[MichelleHW101]

While I have a drive way and don’t really need the spot in front of my mailbox it gets me so angry when a townhouse person moves my trash like I had no right to put it in THEIR parking spot.  It’s my home.  My neighborhood.  My trash.  It is NOT their parking lot.             

[Twyztidninja2789]

There is a difference between parking on a public street and parking in an enclosed single family home neighborhood.  At least to me anyway.  It gets me so mad the neighboring townhouse neighborhood parks not only in front of my mailbox, but now moves my trash be it yard waste or trash bins.  Whatever I put out to be collected by my trash company they move just so that they can park in front of my house.  I did call the police and unfortunately the cop who came lives in an apartment and basically said I have no right to obstruct a ‘parking space’ and told me to put my stuff on the side walk (which anyone who lives in a home knows you can’t) and my trash company told me they aren’t going to collect my trash if it’s on the sidewalk.  It must be in the street or near a curb in front of your house.  So the police are basically worthless because the law doesn’t side with the homeowner, and you as the homeowner have no right to defend what I consider as private property.  I mean I pay to have the trash collected and until it is, it is my responsibility, therefore my property.  I don’t want to get sued if 1) the person moving my trash gets hurt moving it 2) if someone from my actual neighborhood trips over it and gets hurt or 3) I back up with my car into all my trash then (worse case scenario) deflect into someone else’s car all because the townhouse neighborhood bought three cars knowing they are only allotted two parking spots!  It’s so frustrating because the law doesn’t defend the homeowner and it should!     

[nannycoe1]

If it is a public street there should be marked parking areas.

[sak4kat]

We live on a corner where a bus stops to pick up pre-schooler's.  The first day an elderly couple parked there car in our yard waiting for there grandchildren.  The next day they were across the street.  I asked my husband how they knew we were displeased with them initially parking in our yard. And he said, "sometimes all it takes is a look." Guess he gave em' "the look" when I wasn't watching.