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The 48 hour law is misunderstood. It simply says if you mark a spot, the city will not discard your chair or charge you with illegal dumping, for 48 hours. You have no ownership right of the parking spot.
Frankly, the argument that you are entitled to public property, simply because you occupied before the snow began is absurd. Your reward for your labor is the ability to move your car. Nothing more, nothing less.
Lol. You should try & take someone's spot and see what happens...
Parking is nowhere near being the issue in Milwaukee it is in Chicago. I'm shocked people in Pittsburgh do this.
The city is rather dance and don't form, if not population. There are very few neighborhoods where most of the homes have driveways order. Street parking is at a premium.
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Originally Posted by LLCNYC
Lol. You should try & take someone's spot and see what happens...
I've done it many times in Chicago, Boston and Pittsburgh. My preferred method is tossing every chair on the block.
The way I see it if you do the digging the space is yours, not some douche canoe's that is too lazy to shovel.
Everyone on the road who street parked had to dig out their car; they're not lazy. Now that they're looking for a space to park, they have to ignore any space that someone labelled "Mine! Mine!"
If this is really that big of an issue, why doesn't the city implement a temporary designated parking spot? Say you pay the city $50 for a temporary permit, which would be a short wood stake and a laminated piece of paper, to be able to "legally" park in the same spot during a snow emergency. Then enforce it so that the only legal way to reserve the space would be by using that sign.
Obviously, it would need to be specific to residential streets, and you would have to prove residency on that street.
Parking is nowhere near being the issue in Milwaukee it is in Chicago. I'm shocked people in Pittsburgh do this.
It depends on the neighborhood in Chicago. Normally it's in older more established areas (by older I mean a population that's been in the neighborhood a long time) that have some issues with parking, but aren't super high density like along the lakefront.
On the north side I haven't seen the dibs thing going on. Parking is at way too much a premium and so much of the population is young people from elsewhere who moved to the city after college. You can't afford to just have spaces sitting empty when so many people want parking - your "dibs" item will be tossed aside.
In other areas where parking isn't at that much of a premium and the number of cars more equals the number of spaces and it's a more established population - then it works. People will dig out their space and hold it for themselves, but generally there isn't a huge revolving excess of cars looking for those spaces.
It depends on the neighborhood in Chicago. Normally it's in older more established areas (by older I mean a population that's been in the neighborhood a long time) that have some issues with parking, but aren't super high density like along the lakefront.
On the north side I haven't seen the dibs thing going on. Parking is at way too much a premium and so much of the population is young people from elsewhere who moved to the city after college. You can't afford to just have spaces sitting empty when so many people want parking - your "dibs" item will be tossed aside.
In other areas where parking isn't at that much of a premium and the number of cars more equals the number of spaces and it's a more established population - then it works. People will dig out their space and hold it for themselves, but generally there isn't a huge revolving excess of cars looking for those spaces.
I lived in West Town, and dibs were very much a thing. Maybe not in the lakeside neighborhoods.
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