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Originally Posted by Ducay
Besides being a GMG issue, I hate how so many more people now adays use garage for storage and driveway/road for parking.
Not if you've gotten any answers, but I'll just list the things I remember from my various parking adventures in my last 2 houses and days as a renter.
Normally you can use some of these in your situation and adapt them as needed.
- - Doesn't matter how long cars sit as long as registered, operable and owner knows its there. Even if commercial vehicle. (ie no license plate it'll get towed, or flat tires gets towed). Not sure if you can leave unattached trailers on road for more than 24h
- - No broken down or inoperable vehicles on roadway or even on your own driveway (which many don't know the latter).
- - No RVs or trailers parked in front of house, must at least be behind front setback of the house (the face).
- - Can't park within 1.5m of anyone's driveway
- - Cul-de-sac: Can't park on angle unless signage indicates allowed (aka virtually none). This basically is your carte blanch for cul-de-sac violations, as most people park on an angle, and if they park properly along road, they're usually within 1.5m of a driveway.
- - Can't park and block sidewalk.
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Originally Posted by btimbit
Too many people using garages as storage is a big issue.
My brother has lots of toys. Between him and his wife, 4 vehicles, 2 motorcycles and an RV. So he bought a corner lot with an alley so he wouldn't need to leave anything on the street. 2 cars and bikes in garage, 2 on driveway, RV in the back (And behind a fence and gate) Corner lot so if he has people over there's lots of parking in front and next to his house, nobody ever needs to park in front of someone else's house.
To many people are just inconsiderate and/or don't care.
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Part of the reason that garages are used for storage is that there are some vehicles that simply won't fit easily into the garage anyway. I know that my truck is too long to make it in, and if it was jammed in it would be ridiculously tight. Why bother? Might as well park in the driveway in that case.
I do understand the issue with some families having too many cars, but then again my neighbours are wonderful people. As their kids get older they want to drive a car, and of course they now have four vehicles in that family and not enough room to park them. They park wherever they find space on the roads and I don't think its a big deal.