Maximum # of cars per household in Cary?

[FVmommy]

Originally Posted by hammester

Maybe I am in the minority but I do not really see this as a absolute deal breaker. If they have 2 teenage kids that would mean 4 drivers and 4 cars. Seems reasonable to me.

I agree completely. Also a bit confused/disturbed by the "no more than 2 cars in the driveway overnight" that another poster mentioned - so if i've got 2 cars in my garage (for mom and dad), a college student home for the summer, a teenager with a car, and grandma comes to visit for a week, she can't park her car at my house?

I do understand concerns about on-street parking on streets that weren't designed for such, but I don't see how HOAs or towns can limit the number of cars parked in your private driveway, except to say the car has to be registered/running (no cars up on cinder blocks, etc)

[T|K]

That kind of stuff would drive me crazy if it was regulated. Our HOA doesn't allow overnight/long term street parking (but some do it anyways). We right now have 4 cars for 2 people in our house, but we park them in the garage and driveway.

[lovebrentwood]

Cary used to have a 2-dog limit, but it was challenged in court, and they backed down. There is no limit.

[raleighkc]

I'd pass on the house. I didn't buy one house in a cul-de-sac a few years ago specifically because of 5 cars at one house. I had asked his neighbors and they said he bought/sold used cars and didn't turn them over quickly, so there was also junky cars taking up all the parking in the cul-de-sac. I told the seller's realtor that's why I wouldn't buy and she positively seethed with anger (not at me, but towards the junk car guy). She said there was some kind of city ordinance about it and she was going to turn him in. This was in Raleigh.

[sophialee]

If the 5 cars were Benzs and BMWs in lieu of junky gold minivans would you still be upset? Have you met them? are they nice people?

Seems silly to pass on a perfect house simply because your neighbor parks a few cars in the street, imo.

[lovebrentwood]

Thank goodness that most Cary HOAs have the two-child limit, at least.

Otherwise, such chaos.

[Protect N Serve]

I reside in a Durham neighborhood and I continue to be harrased for parking a city patrol unit on the streets. One would think that the Association would love to have the extra presence in the neighborhood. I have explained to the Association that they do not own the city streets but I continue to get harrased.

[theS5]

I would be more concerned with the people living inside the house, not the cars outside.