Residential Parking in City Neighborhoods

[youngabe]

Originally Posted by chielgirl

There's ample parking in my neighborhood - a school and church and large buildings that provide extra parking spaces. We're also one family houses.

It's always been that you get one parking space in front of your house; you and your company do not park in front of someone else's house if there's a chance that they'll be coming home. If you have 2 or more vehicles, you get the space in front of your house and park in one of the other available spaces that don't inconvenience a home owner.

It's been working for over 50 years.

To me, that would make on-street parking much more bearable. If I had a "reserved" on-street spot, there wouldn't be an issue. On my street, however, if Neighbor 2 decides to have a party they can grab all the parking on the street at once, if things play out that way, and I'm left to park in the unknown!

[youngabe]

I'm the OP for this thread. I have another parking related question.

There's been a van on my street, parked in the same spot for over 2 months now. It has a handicapped placard hanging from the mirror, but it's not in a handicapped spot. It also has 2 flat tires. Once again, the van has remained, in the spot, untouched for over 2 months. Is there anything that can be done about this to free up this valuable parking spot, or am I SOL? Anyone I can call to have it towed or is this piece of junk parked, fair game?

I'll NEVER live anywhere again where on-street parking is my only option. Ahh!

[fleetiebelle]

If you're in the city, call 311 with a description of the van and a location. Someone from parking enforcement will come check.