Please give me some guidlines/etiquette on this whole parking "dibs" business (Chicago: neighborhood, landlord)

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by kidcharlemagne

I went down the street and threw everything on the side of the road. Not more than five minutes later people were out replacing the trash and yelling and with grand arm gestures. Luckily no one pointed at my apartment. Ahhhh... I am going to have to leave the house disguised till summer.

Just keep throwing the stuff away until they run out of junk.

I managed to get around dibs my last nine years in Chcicago by renting garage spots. Also, it just wasn't common on my block in Uptown. I think people respected the fact that parking was a free-for-all in our dense neighborhood near the lake, and dibs was pretty rare. We saw it after the 2011 blizzard, but maybe only for a day.

[MassVt]

"Dibs" is basically a one-time only thing--you're entitled to your spot, for a limited time, and once you leave it, it's open season. Chances are high that the person who claims your spot is someone who had to shovel himself out too......

Once again, if feasible, it's best to shovel your car out, and just leave it there until the weather improves.

[Drover]

Originally Posted by Lookout Kid

Just keep throwing the stuff away until they run out of junk.

I managed to get around dibs my last nine years in Chcicago by renting garage spots. Also, it just wasn't common on my block in Uptown. I think people respected the fact that parking was a free-for-all in our dense neighborhood near the lake, and dibs was pretty rare. We saw it after the 2011 blizzard, but maybe only for a day.

Yeah, I think once the neighborhood reaches a certain density nobody is going to respect dibs anyway, especially not for more than a day or two, because parking is so scarce as it is that people will gladly risk having their car vandalized. Chances are it's already all scuffed up from tight side-street parking anyway.

[probablyimnotsure]

Originally Posted by kidcharlemagne

Hi!


Sooooo... I need some advice on how to get through the season, not of snow or cold, (which I love), but dibs.

This is my first winter here and I obviously don't get it. Monday morning, I dig out, drive away, (leaving no rickety chair, child's toy, or other such piece of trash in my spot), go to work, and return in the eveing to find NO SPOTS for blocks. Either their is a car or the dibs trash. Eventually I find a spot that was mounded with snow from a plow and dig that out, and this time, of course put dibs trash in its spot. I am not doing this to get a "reserved spot" , but just so I can have a spot to park in that is not a mile away.

If I had returned from work and had to dig out a space again, and had to dig out again, over and over, fine. It is a twenty -thirty minute chore, you get exercise, and eventually the whole block would be clean, and there would be no need for dibs anyway, but instead the block is basically a line of reserved parking spaces, making it impossible for some people to find a spot.


Which brings me to my second point. Since by today all spots have been cleared, why is there still "dibs"? Like its the same road as it was before there was snow. You can basically pull into a spot now.


And when does "dibs" end? Is there a time limit on your reserved spot? When does the weather deem it cut off time? Thats what I really want to know, how long does this dibs stuff go on for?

This even sounds worse than Los Angeles.

[rvernsey]

Hate life, then get a place with a parking spot.

2014. Never. Again.

Just like anything else that is open to abuse by the lazy and unintelligent, you will find fun things like:

People barely driving out of a fully snowed in spot, doing no shoveling and putting crap in it.
People not parking in their garages because the alleys are so bad, and putting dibs on the street taking away even more spots rather than shoveling the alley.
People magically saving the spot right in front of their house until the last speck of white is gone from the street so they don't have to find parking like everyone else.

If everyone capable shoveled for an hour after this last storm the streets and alleys would be clear. It's usually a few people out there in a street with 80 people living on it.

[rvernsey]

Originally Posted by kidcharlemagne

I figured THEY WERE NOT HOME, if there was trash there. What the heck?!

Oh yeah I ran into this last year. The rest of the family sits on the couch and watches the dibs all day while someone is out working. I had a woman come flying out the door as soon as I moved her crap last year yelling as I walked away. Goes back to my "everyone shovel for an hour" theory. So many people sit home and do next to nothing and just want the spot out front of their house.

I have been thinking about taking out Craigslist ads to people with trucks to clean up dibs. I would pay for that, takes me out of the equation and surely there is someone crazy enough that doesn't live on the block that would do it. Just need to find the price point sweet spot and some takers.

[blktoptrvl]

A stupid thing to damage your life over...

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[UC18]

Originally Posted by ChicagoMeO

Just as i thought, winter parking sucks if you park on the street. i have a parking space, but sometimes i need to go into Lakeview for stuff and now im getting worried about getting a parking space.

If only there were some sort of other means of transportation for getting to Lakeview. There should be some sort of "Chicago Transportation Authority," if you will, to look into this.

[Drover]

Originally Posted by rvernsey

Hate life, then get a place with a parking spot.

2014. Never. Again.

Just like anything else that is open to abuse by the lazy and unintelligent, you will find fun things like:

People barely driving out of a fully snowed in spot, doing no shoveling and putting crap in it.
People not parking in their garages because the alleys are so bad, and putting dibs on the street taking away even more spots rather than shoveling the alley.
People magically saving the spot right in front of their house until the last speck of white is gone from the street so they don't have to find parking like everyone else.

You forgot:

- Dibs in front of house because garage is used as storage unit instead of garage
- Dibs on a spot someone else shoveled out but didn't claim

Some broad tried to dibs a spot I shoveled out last winter. That s#*t got thrown in the trash in a hurry.

Originally Posted by rvernsey

If everyone capable shoveled for an hour after this last storm the streets and alleys would be clear. It's usually a few people out there in a street with 80 people living on it.

I told this story last year and it's worth re-telling.... there were a couple people shoveling out empty spots on our street last year after one of our numerous snowfalls. As they're shoveling, some Cretin pulls up in their car, parks in a spot they had just shoveled out, gets out, and walks away without a word or without returning to pitch in. If I were one of the people shoveling, that car would have been encased in a glacier until March.

[Drover]

Originally Posted by rvernsey

I have been thinking about taking out Craigslist ads to people with trucks to clean up dibs. I would pay for that, takes me out of the equation and surely there is someone crazy enough that doesn't live on the block that would do it. Just need to find the price point sweet spot and some takers.

Or Streets & San could do their fkin' job and pick the crap up like they're supposed to, and start doing it right away instead of waiting a week-plus before finally saying "OK, we're thinking about maybe getting around to removing street debris soon, so residents may want to give some consideration to doing it themselves while decide whether we're going to bother."