Neighbor Blocking Entrance Driveway
First off please pardon my Kindergarten visual drawing. So here is the deal. As you see from the picture, my neighbor has a huge commercial vehicle parked in his driveway. Recently they decided to park their 2nd car in front of their house (20ft wide), leaving more than enough space for their van to get…
First off please pardon my Kindergarten visual drawing. So here is the deal. As you see from the picture, my neighbor has a huge commercial vehicle parked in his driveway. Recently they decided to park their 2nd car in front of their house (20ft wide), leaving more than enough space for their van to get in and out with no issue. The problem is they gave so much space on their side, it leaves less space on my side. Majority of the cars that park right outside my house ends up parking very close to the entrance of my driveway, sometimes even blocking it. Anyone ever dealt with anything like this? Also does anyone know if you can park a commercial vehicle in a private residential driveway?
Sell your car and use mass transit.
If your neighbor actually parked even further back where each half were squarely in front of both of your homes, no one would attempt to park in front of their car and block your driveway. (At least I would hope no one would attempt to.)
It’s a dickish thing to do to leave one less space on the block, but I’ve seen it done all the time in Dyker and Bensonhurst and it would solve your problem.
My favorite of these types of situations are those people who think they are the mayor of the block. This reminds me when I was dating an old nut job boyfriend who wasn’t much different from his dad.
His dad was under the impression that no one could park in front of his home but himself and took on a campaign of nasty notes that were left on the windshield of those who dared. He called himself the mayor of the block and anyone who thought that street parking wasn’t assigned to certain self elected individuals were going to be very sorry. The notes made no sense and read as if a 5 year old wrote them.
We also had a friend who lived in Baltimore who would continuously defy neighbors who would hold “their” parking spots with traffic cones in front of their homes. He would drive right over them and park in the spot crushing the cones and not releasing them until next morning. He is my hero.
We don’t own a car so I find a lot of this behavior to be really funny – and I know it’s unfair as we don’t have to deal with the stresses of owning a car. But I would never think that the street in front of my house belonged to me although I too would long for it.
Given your situation is different – I would be more concerned about his street parking rather than his commercial vehicle. If you wanted to play this game – I would make sure my car always was as far up as your property line allows. So thereby he couldn’t encroach on your space with his car. Or have a friend put their car there when you aren’t home. But it all seems really tiresome.
I have not have many incidents of people blocking my driveway until recently. The source of the problem is my neighbor parking his car a 3rd into the width of my house which is 20 ft wide. Now instead of having 20 ft of a parking area in front of my house, it is reduce to 15-16 ft. Most mid-size sedan will have trouble fitting in, unless they are parking bumper to bumper.
Your neighbor is being a tard for parking in the middle, but isn’t doing anything illegal by parking in the middle of the double spot.
Unless you can find anything that states that a large commercial vehicle being parked on a residential lot is illegal the only thing that you can do is have the car blocking your driveway ticketed and towed.
Code 98: Standing or parking in front of a public or private driveway. The owner or renter of a lot accessed by a private driveway may park a passenger vehicle registered to him / her at that address in front of such driveway provided the lot does not contain more than 2 dwelling units and that such parking does not violate any other rule or restriction. $95 Fine.
Or you can ask the neighbor if they can be civilized and park appropriately.
This is what I would do:
1) Ask neighbors if they could park their own car closer to the driveway so that it would leave more room for other cars. (which won’t solve the problem, but could help)
2) Do something to delineate where the opening to your entranceway is. I don’t know about the yellow line, but in Brooklyn Heights once I saw an interesting solution. There was a little no parking sign — a metal pole about 4 feet tall, set in a ball of concrete (looked like it might have been set in a bucket) and with a little metal no parking sign soddered to the pole. This thing was set near the entrance of their driveway which wasn’t very obvious on the street to delineate where the border to the driveway was. It was also heavy enough to not be carried off by anyone.
Solve this problem with logic http://mathworld.wolfram.com/RenyisParkingConstants.html or even better, call a tow truck after warning them. I have found a note pinned to a car’s hood by means of a brick is an effective approach.
I agree with tyburg6. Painting yellow beyond the driveway cut is stupid and should be ignored. If you can’t get out of a driveway if a car is ‘close’ to it you should not be driving.
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