Stacy spotted this lovely bit of insanity on the SPD Blotter:
Seattle police are on the trail of a passive-aggressive parking vigilante, who’s been graffitiing all over the street and leaving nasty notes for neighbors in North Seattle.
Earlier this year, some neighborhood parking vigilante took it upon themselves to paint (unofficial) parking lines along most of a one-block stretch of Whitman Avenue N near 41st Street.
Last week, the woman left her car parked outside those unofficial lines for several days while she was home sick, and later returned to her vehicle to find this passive-aggressive note:
“Please do everyone a favor on this block, either learn how to park your car like a normal human being or put a bullet in your face you worthless piece of [expletive]. Go [expletive] yourself and have a bad day. Sincerely, Everyone.”
The victim provided police with the note and told officers she believed it had been written by a man in the neighborhood who has previously griped about the parking situation on the block. She also said this wasn’t the first time someone had left a note on her car.
If you’ve got parking problems in your neighborhood and are looking for a productive solution, check out the Seattle Police Department and Seattle Department of Transportation’s parking info websites.
Or, if you’re really into parking, The Seattle Police Department is always looking for parking enforcement officers. Among the many qualifications for the job, you must be able to remain calm and emotionally detached in tough situations, and be a tactful, courteous communicator who has not smoked Angel Dust within the last five years. Must like dogs.
Nutso. This, on the tail of the following note we received from a reader, Hamoon, recently:
I refer to your blog “Too Close For Comfort“: In July 2013, I parked my car on the street behind the market (2201 46th – 46th and Bagley).
When I returned to my car, I found a ticket for the amount of $47 posted on my windshield. The reason was parking within 5′ of driveway. I was not in anyway impeding the home owner’s ability to pull into his/her driveway. The driveway was empty when I parked my car. When I returned a SUV was in the driveway.
I wrote a letter to the judge and explained the circumstances and also mentioned that this person has gained a reputation for him/herself in our neighborhood. The judge reduced the ticket amount by 60%.
Judging from your post the resident of this house has clearly adopted the part-time job of calling squad/parking enforcement cars on his/her neighbors. He/She needs a better problem solving /social skills….what about painting a yellow strip on the sidewalk?
I’ve had scattered reports of similar foolishness from others in the past, as well. I’ve had my car “warned” (although not ticketed) by the SPD twice because a neighbor called the police to report that I had failed to use it for over 72 hours.
I know, someone is going to comment about how I have no “right” to parking on the street, which may be technically true, but it leaves unresolved the question: “what does anyone care enough to call the police about it?”
I about 3 times a year call reparking when the view coming from our driveway is completely obscured when a large SUV or such has parked 1-2 feet from curb.
I did not call police the other night when my upstairs neighbor and hisfriend got in toa yelling fight at midnight. You might ask why not? it was clearly loud and the woman was screaming.. they live above me and I cant afford reprisals of any kind.
As Rodney King said, can’t we all just get along? If you park so close to a driveway that someone can’t see getting out (and let’s face it, there are some really inadequate sight lines in Wallingford without anyone parking too close to a driveway), you’re not just doing something illegal, you’re doing something unneighborly. If you park across a driveway (even for just a moment, while you run into a store) you’ve decided your convenience is more important than anything a neighbor might have to do. With some cars, five feet is more than is needed and no one should worry about it. With some mammoth SUVs, five feet still obstructs a safe view (particularly backing out, particularly onto an arterial). Just put yourself in the other person’s shoes and see what you’d do.
I live across the street from the JSIS, so I get hurried parents partially blocking my driveway all the time. It’s an inconvenience and a frustration. Sometimes, I’ll leave a note asking them to be more careful in the future. I’ve never called the police on them. That just seems douchy.
That’s the view from my shoes.
I often have trouble seeing around parked cars, in a car where I’m sitting pretty close to the ground and pretty far back. Notably for whatever reason, entering Wallingford N from a side street. I don’t believe that’s really addressed by the curb/driveway parking limits, though. If it were illegal to block my view, then you could hardly park a van or SUV on the street. The limits are there to leave a path to make a right or left turn out of the driveway, without unreasonable extra maneuvering.
I’ve seen this parking line vigilante story a couple of times by now, but still don’t know what that means. There are other places in Wallingford where neighbors have marked out parking spaces, for example with “T” shaped white paint to mark the street-side corners of the spaces. The lines on Whitman were something like that? Curb marks? In areas with a heavy parking load, anyone with a curb stretch that supports 2 or 3 cars has experienced the inept parker who wastes a spot where you could have parked, and clear markings seem like an obvious remedy.
Our driveway is routinely blocked. I call the police if I can’t get in and out of the driveway – which means that someone is parked at least 1 foot into the driveway or in a few instances directly across it. If I don’t need to leave my home, I will wait to call for a little while – but it takes a long time for the police to come and a few times it has meant that I am 1-2 hours late for arriving at work impacting clients who have driven from long distances to be seen.
I don’t hold to the 5 foot rules but try to leave notes on cars for anyone that parks significantly closer than 3 feet from my driveway and if they continue to park in that manner then I would call the police. I have not had that happen – most people seem to respect and appreciate the note.
Overall, I agree with Breadbaker. While some may see it as “douchy” to call the police, may equally be seen as disrespectful and unneighborly to block someone’s driveway.
I can’t really comment on the “parking vigilante” since I haven’t seen the lines in the street. The note, of course, is just offensive and rude and doesn’t play a constructive role.
One of the things that we can do for ourselves and our neighbors is to recognize that the laws and rules around parking are there to protect us and our neighbors. Parking in or too close to a driveway not only obstructs the drivers ability to safely get in and out of their driveway, it can delay emergency responders access during a crisis. A driveway is considered a fire access route to a home, and if it’s blocked, firetrucks cannot get proper access. That is one reason why people get tickets for parking in or too close to a driveway, even when it’s their own driveway (SPD doesn’t know, and the law isn’t concerned, about who’s car is breaking the law).
Yes, parking is tight and difficult in our neighborhood. If folks don’t like the laws we have, there are ways to change them. Until then you should respect the law.
We moved to the neighborhood about a year ago, and have been receiving incredibly rude, passive-aggressive notes on our car since then.
The notes include threats to call the police every time our car is parked on a certain street (even though it is parked there legally), telling us that since we don’t own a “nice car” that it doesn’t belong in the neighborhood (we’re young and paying off student loans!), and that we are only allowed to park our car in our driveway (which we don’t have!). Sadly, our anonymous note-writer refuses to speak with us in person about the issue although we have reached out multiple times.
And to top it all off, the car has been vandalized twice! It breaks my heart. We had hoped to be welcomed into our new neighborhood. We moved to Wallingford specifically because it reminded us of home – calm, beautiful, unpretentious and “neighborly.”
There really are some problems with parking in Wallingford. Some people don’t have garages, but have two cars. Some people have garages, but don’t’ use them. The parking on the streets directly south of 45th, are usually occupied by people who work in the businesses on N. 45th. The area is old, the streets are very narrow. As time has progressed, there are more people, more cars, and the cars are much bigger.
Visibility is very difficult when coming from 44th or 43rd on to Wallingford Ave. The cars are parked right up to the corner. This is a dangerous situation, and I think, illegal, for I think 3 feet is the distance from the corner is to be clear of vehicles. You have to pull out into the lane of north/south traffic on Walingford to see if cars are coming. If a car IS coming, which has the right of way, you then need to back up to get out of the way, if you are lucky enough to not have anyone 2 inches behind you.
There is an SUV which routinely parks on 44th/Wallingford in front of Julia’s, and they routinely block part of the disability curb, making it almost impossible for someone in a wheelchair, or sometimes even a double stroller, to use this access. In every instance that i have seen, there was plenty of room to pull forward.
A car on a block in Densmore has been parked in the same place more than a month. It finally had a warning that it would be ticketed or towed if not moved in three days. But it stayed there an additional two weeks with no action taken.
Cars are parked in the middle of alleys, for convenience, thus completely blocking anyone from driving through the alley, and/or negates the fire lane completely.
I have a garage. I park in my garage. When I get in my car to leave, and the automatic garage door will not open, because it clunks agains a car parked across my driveway, I am not amused. I cannot leave. In this instance, I will try to find the owner. When I find the owner, I am not amused. Calling the police is not a practical option, for I could be blocked in for days ,if I wanted for them to come, unable to use my own car. I rarely call the police. But I keep this option open for safety.
Kath,
Sorry to hear about your crazy neighbor. My brother went through that in a different Seattle neighbor. It took awhile to find out who it was, and once he did the harassment became more personal — the person actually came to door when I was out the house to complain about the car parked in front of his house. I was a bit perplexed as it would never occur to me to complain about someone parking on a public street.
It only takes one nut to make the neighborhood seem inhospitable.
I only wish that the folks that had strong feelings about parking would move to neighborhoods that are more suited to their priorities. Going car free in the city is also a great way to avoid the hassle of parking.
NICE one bb. Sounding more like my grandfather though ‘damn kids, don’t like ‘merica, get the hell OUT’… It’s not unreasonable to want to get in/out of a driveway. It’s not unreasonable on MANY levels, but after nearly hitting several bicyclists because neither of us can see the other is sorta frustrating — because the bicyclist would certainly not be at fault (and I would not be the one to end up in the hospital…). My priorities are to get along — but if someone repeatedly chooses to take advantage of a situation, I have no problem letting parking enforcement know…
I understand the frustration — the strip outside our house has plenty of room for two cars, even really big cars, but boobs frequently park in the middle of the space, making it impossible for a second car in front or in back. But that note is way out of line. A polite “you are taking two parking spaces, please be more attentive in the future, neighbor” is fine.
Without knowing the particulars, there is also the phenomenon of the anti-social jerk who takes two parking spaces ON PURPOSE because he (it’s always a he for some reason) wants to protect his precious BMW (it’s always a BMW for some reason), but this is much more common in side-by-side parking lots, at the grocery or mall or wherever. These people need to be killed.
But in the neighborhood, with street parking, it’s rarely that. It’s much more likely to be someone who just doesn’t know what the hell they are doing — which describes most Seattle drivers, to be honest. I guarantee this is the same type of person who regularly drives down arterials at eighteen miles an hour (or forty down narrow residential streets), doesn’t signal, or signals halfway into the turn, or even signals right while turning left, refuses to go when it’s their turn at a four-way, weaves in and out of the bike lane, runs red lights, stops in the middle of the street for no reason (are you having a stroke?), or any of the other thoughtless, meandering Seattle driving behaviors we all see on a daily basis.
We live near a school and are pretty tolerant of parents’ short-term parking violations unless they’re particularly egregious–as in right in front of our driveway. We’re real patient on the 4th of July too! But, for several good reasons we always report unfamiliar cars left on our block for more than 3 days, although not before we leave a note (sometimes along with SPD’s ‘Can I Park Here’ brochure) and e-mail all the neighbors who might be able to notify the owner.
First, our quiet street near the freeway seems to attract thieves needing to abandon the cars they’ve taken. It’s happened many times in the years we’ve lived here and I always feel bad for the inconvenienced owner when we’ve failed to report their car that’s just been sitting on our block since the night it was taken.
Second, parking is tight here, partly because you can’t use the driveway if you hope to get back onto the narrow street with cars parked on both sides. We do the best we can to share the space fairly, but when a stranger leaves an unused vehicle parked on our block because there isn’t room to park on their own, they’re disrespectfully and unfairly downstreaming the cost of their car ownership to those of us who need ours regularly. It’s hard to feel bad when they get ticketed and towed away.
Then there’s the 1st term UW students who’s been fairly warned by the school that a car is only a liability on or near campus, there’s no place to park them–please leave vehicles at home. They can’t imagine it’s possible to get along without a car, so they drive it in anyway and end up leaving it unused for weeks at a time. Doesn’t take them too many parking violations to figure out the school was right!
I like the idea of a friendly, informative note. Nasty notes? Yuck.
If drivers park too near, or over driveways or in other places they shouldn’t, I also think it’s fine to alert parking enforcement. Doing so does not seem “douchy” to me at all.
What seems “douchy” is the selfish and un-neighborly way behavior of some Wallingfordians who apparently feel they are entitled to disregard any local ordinances that are inconvenient to them. Frankly, I don’t know that anything other than getting a ticket would inspire them to think differently about our community.
One of my favorites: someone had placed a sign on a fire hydrant on 34th, warning people not to park there lest they get a ticket. You’d kinda think the presence of the hydrant itself conveys a message: “Please don’t park here because it’s a FIRE HYDRANT and SFD needs access.”
We agree, in theory, to act lawfully, and to understand that there are consequences for not doing so: I was in a big hurry a few months ago, and parked in a marked loading zone. Parking enforcement came by and ticketed me. I paid the ticket…and if that ticket was because someone called it in, well, I sure wouldn’t consider them “douchy.” I’m the one that messed-up.
Again, I think leaving nasty notes on peoples’ cars is poor form. But so is parking where you shouldn’t. I’m with #2 Breadbaker on this one.
I live on Whitman and know who painted the “parking spots” on our street. I’m also fairly certain he’s the man mentioned in this story. He harangues everyone about parking along our street. I’ve gotten an earful from him twice because, 20+ years ago, half our back yard was removed to make parking and the driveway opening is wider than usual.
Ironically, he owns a GIANT house on Whitman that’s been converted into over a dozen apartments. He provides zero parking for tenants though there is an enormous driveway and open area at the back of his house. He owns three cars, two of which he parks on the street for weeks at a time in one spot. (He’s also a slumlord — charging high rents for horrible apartments and has been accused of some very creepy things over the years by *many* of the women who have lived there — and usually, abruptly, moved out.)
Last year, I spoke to a parking enforcement officer about him when she was ticketing a car that was parked so far into my driveway, I couldn’t get out. She said it was against the law to paint those parking lines on the street and asked for his name.
She also said homeowners may paint the curb yellow or red on each side of their driveways — up to five feet in each direction. So, I painted two feet on each side of our driveway — which has helped a bit, but not always.
With the many large buildings — and inadequate parking for those tenants — coming on Stone Way, parking will get much worse as more people are pushed further west, but blocked by Aurora. Likely, we’ll have to go to an RPZ and it will be more important than ever for people to park in a safe, neighborly way. As for that guy, well….
I live on a narrow “one-side parking” street in Wallingford with a narrow driveway that, to make things worse, sits opposite a telegraph pole, so if someone is right at the edge of our curb, even if they’re not literally blocking (think a foot or less) then I literally can’t back out and am trapped. So twice I have left apologetic notes, once called the city because some idiot just parked on our driveway and once asked the neighbor, personally when I saw them.
The main message derived from these comments is that the automobile is responsible for much that dehumanizes our culture – and what is cited is only a small facet of many aspects of automobile use that decivilizes (made up word) much of our society.
That’s reaching. You can blame the automobile for a lot of things, but this isn’t really one of them, this is just another resource conflict.
“he parks on the street for weeks at a time in one spot”
That’s against the law. 72 hours max in one spot. Report him. I would have no qualms at all.
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Fnarf – Clicked post too soon and couldn’t edit it to add that several of us report his cars and he’s received MANY tickets. It doesn’t deter him — from storing his vehicles on the street, re-painting the parking spot lines this past spring, or harassing others about their parking habits.
I have a parking space at my place on Whitman, but I would really like to park across the lines one day. I suppose that would cause more problems than it solves. The guy must be going nuts with the construction that’s been going on between 42nd and 41st. The workers are loud and annoying and there are trucks frequently blocking the street in the morning.
What is the address of the building he owns? My co-workers sometimes ask about apartments in Wallingford. I wouldn’t want to send anyone there.
I think I know which house on Whitman.. amazing it seems to have open places to live.. north of it is some construction going on. I spoke with whomever had a c/l ad and his word sfelt creepy.
There is more than one not good land lord in this area… 4 buildings on our corner about 2 blocks away are owned by the same person/ management company- rent is going up a lot and upkeep is not.
They use c/l and zillow for rentals.
Rob — you troublemaker. 😉 As for potential renters, well, since you live nearby I’ll bet you’ve seen the narrow, but deep (i.e. huge) white house on the east side of the street. And yes, the construction noise and frequent blocking of the street and/or driveways has been obnoxious! I’ve talked twice to the workers; next time, I’m calling the cops.
I have to post and say a few things – and, for the record, I consider myself not pro-car and I think anything that gets more cars off the road is a good thing.
first, on the original parking blog post – Too Close for Comfort: http://www.wallyhood.org/2011/09/close-comfort/ that was cited again.
i was actually a material witness to that specific incident. I recall reading the original post and thought I had commented upon it as the facts as stated didn’t really jibe with what I saw and the conclusion I drew and seeing it resurface it seems opportune to give my perspective. What I saw that day was a tough situation – it was a busy market day with people jostling everywhere for parking. I know that specific driveway and address as I’ve know the last three occupants and they have all had the exact same issue – people park right up next to the edge of their narrow driveway and if there is a car behind their driveway they are truly blocked in – it is impossible to navigate even a 10 point turn out. A situation that someone parking might not be aware of at all and probably couldn’t be without first hand knowledge of trying to back out of that space with two cards edged up against the driveway and a car behind it. I remember looking at the situation on the way to the market and thinking – poor folks they are totally blocked in today. The two cars adjacent to the driveway were – at best – 12″ from the edge of the driveway. I specifically remember this as I remember walking back form the market that day and seeing a ticket on the cars. If the residents of that house (and – Jordan – I’m not sure publishing the specific resident’s address is appropriate?) did call the ticket people I assume it was only because they were blocked in and I am certain it was likely the umpteenth time it happened to them – I personally had seen it scores of times (I’ve walked by that corner 2-3 times a day for 12 years).
It’s the exact same situation as @Frankie and probably many, many other people living on these narrow streets. The 5′ rule is super inconvenient but it exists for a reason and despite my usual disdain for these types of ordinances it makes sense to me.
If you’ve got a ticket for such a reason, i urge you to put yourself in your usually eminently reasonable neighbor’s shoes – it take most people a lot to actually call the police or the parking people….the benefit of the doubt could go a long way.
so….to answer jordan’s closing question:
what does it take for someone to call the police? in the case I cited above i wouldn’t be surprised that it took something like being blocked in 10-20 times before they resorted to such a tactic. and they probably did it more out of frustration then anything else.
finally, I did notice some yellow paint there the other day. which, having some first hand knowledge of the situation, i am fine with. But if i were totally unaware of the ease with which they get totally blocked in, I would probably tend towards thinking it was petty.
moving to preachiness mode – it’s always good to assume the best of folks and figure they must have some very well thought and logical reason for their action even if it makes no sense to you…until proven otherwise. I choose to believe most people don’t operate out of a place of malice and vindictiveness. rarely is someone actually out to get you.
Or if that doesn’t work for you, you can at the very least question whether the stories people tell you are totally reliable information.
To hell with parking. I’ve started riding a bike to work and it makes you realize just how dirty and inefficient cars are for the city environment. Checkout http://www.bicyclebenefits.org and join me!
I am going back to the large house which has about 12 apts. I almost rented there lat month.. as rents in my building I knew would go up. I really encourage people to call and have unmoved cars towed or ticketed.
contributing to the problems are the large apartment buildings going in that don’t have adequate parking or rather charge excessive rates for parking.
… which will in turn tend to suppress retailers, restaurants and other urban infrastructure in the vicinity of those apartments. They’ll wish they could get some kind of reverse RPZ, where you can’t park on the street if you live there.
Hey DJ,
I totally sympathize with the need for people to respect existing laws about leaving enough clearance by driveways and at the corners.
We have a driveway and have gotten boxed in before. It’s easy enough for people to park their car and think “It’s close but they can still get out”, but then another car does the same on the other side, thinking it still looks ok, and then someone parks on the other side of the street (which is totally legal) and then that’s it, there’s no way to back out of the driveway.
Asking people adhere to the law is not in anyway unreasonable. Those laws exist for a reason.
Harassing people who aren’t in any way breaking the law is terrible however. In my brother’s case, the neighbor just didn’t like someone else parking in front of their house. There were no driveways on the block.
Nice post, bb!
Yeah, bb, nice post!
We were in the same situation (until we decided to sell the car because the harassment so so bad!). We never broke any laws, always parked in total legal spots and moved the car within three days. The anonymous neighbor’s reasoning was that he hated looking at our car.
Hate that this guy lives one block away :/
this is the owner of Caracol?
As a bit of an aside, I’m not sure that anyone needs to actually call the parking enforcement on Market days. We live near the Bagley entrance, and I almost always see the enforcement person writing tickets on Wednesdays, so I’d just assumed that they’re scheduled to be there.
To me, the issue boils down to one of de-escalation and, as was said, the ‘can’t we all just get along?’ idea. As a driver, I try to consider residents; as a resident I can put up with some inconvenience that doesn’t really impact my life or plans. I think putting stripes beside the driveway is a sensible step, as it reminds ALL drivers to leave space, as opposed to escalating to a ticket for ONE driver–they may never park there again, but dozens of others will. That being said, I have a strong urge to go join Rob in parking over the lines on Whitman!
And Kath, I’m so sorry about your horrible neighbor! Maybe if the blog collectively sends you good Wallingford thoughts it’ll offset some of the negativity. 🙂
Related: the City of Seattle has a smartphone app called ‘Find It, Fix It’ available for Android and iPhone. It provides another option for reporting abandoned vehicles, graffiti, potholes, parking enforcement issues, and other inquiries. Links to downloads here: http://www.seattle.gov/customer-service-bureau/find-it-fix-it-mobile-app
Note: I am not employed by the City of Seattle, or associated with these apps in any way.
Repeat link re: leaving 5′ clearance on either side of a driveway:
http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/parking/drivewaymarking.htm
It is what it is. Until you change it, don’t park within 5′ of a driveway
if you don’t want to chance a parking ticket. Owner of driveway may
paint those curbs yellow if they want to.
If you do see yellow paint on a curb on either side of a driveway, it is likely
an indication that the issue matters to the homeowner, so don’t park there
unless you are willing to chance that ticket.
Re: really uncalled-for nasty notes – report them to the police. Start a
paper trail. It could come in handy some day.
Otherwise, I go for the Rodney King approach. Most of us just want to
get along, and live our lives in peace with each other. Leave irrational
people alone – it ain’t worth it to engage with them.
Jack (way back @6)–Parking Enforcement told me they don’t ticket for blocked driveways unless someone calls it in.
I did call Parking Enforcement once when someone was fully blocking our driveway. I don’t know if they got a ticket or left before Parking Enforcement got there, but I do know we got a ticket on our other car, which was parked too close to our own driveway. (Ticket was dismissed.)
So the answer to the question is–will call for a car parked in front of the driveway. And will check our parking first.
What’s the Rodney King approach?
It must be over five feet exactly! Take out the tape measure and measure it rather than cutting your fellow citizens some slack. N@zis never change.
@#37 Wallyhood: Really??
Really. Is there a different Rodney King than the one who got pulled out of his car after leading the police on a high speed chase, got beat up by cops which led to a city-wide riot, and then spent the rest of his life involved in petty crime, drugs, and reality TV shows, until he drowned in his own pool high on PCP? Or is that the approach you’re going for?
I live right in that area and have had my issues with notes and rudeness, I think we all could respect our neighbor a little more if that means you park a block further to be respectful of others space and ya someone else might take that spot well you can rest I knowing it wasn’t you. I definitely have areas I will not park but if I must and I might offend someone. I have a pre-printed note to inform others that I am legally parked, not to leave me a note, not to vandalize my vehicle and the number to the Seattle police to report me if they feel it is necessary. 2 cents isn’t what it use be.
@41 Wallyhood: I think that she’s referring to the fact that during the riots Rodney King said “can’t we all just get along.” Though the other stuff might make for a more interesting neighborhood.
@#41 Wallyhood/Jordan: You are really this snarky over what amounts to 40% of a $47.00 ticket which in turn amounts to $18.80? If this $18.80 means so much to you, go address the Seattle Parking Department and change their rules. By the way, I got the link for the regulations regarding yellow stripes from YOUR post. Can you not tell the difference between the messenger and the message? This is ALL about you, not me. Get real. Go take your energy out on the people who make the rules, not the person who quotes the rules from YOUR post.
@42 Jen: Wallyhood/Jordan knows exactly what I mean. He just can’t find his big-boy pants to put them on.
@6f228c868618d66909b27756ccfde815:disqus : Actually, I honestly didn’t know what you meant. Sorry.
And it’s not about the money. My beef is that someone is calling the police on their neighbors. I don’t care if it’s $1 or $10,000. I don’t call the police when someone goes 60 in a 55, I don’t call the police when someone smokes within 10 feet of a restaurant, I don’t call the police when someone lets their dog off-leash in the park, I don’t call the police when someone crosses outside the cross walk. I don’t want to live a place where people call the police every time someone breaks any letter of the law. That’s my opinion, you don’t have to share it.
Sorry if you thought I was attacking you. All I did was ask about the Rodney King thing. I really had no idea what you meant.
As a twenty year Wallingford resident (live and work) it pains me to see threads like this. Why? Because it’s just starting – there are quite literally hundreds of condo residential units under construction right now in the wallingford core and thousands more coming in the next three years. And they do not require anywhere near the parking that those new residents will use. It’s going to get soooooooooo much worse. We’ve all had it so good for so long the fact is I think a lot of us are spoiled to some degree. We feel like it’s a ‘right’ to be able to park in the street right in front of our house and as the density comes we get a little grumpy if we have to park two houses down or, heaven forbid, around the corner. Anyway, prepare yourselves. It’s going to get much much worse and it’s going to happen quickly. I hope we can all be nice to one another and considerate in the midst of all the coming changes.
Nice post, gp. And realistic! Thank you.
@41, yes, exactly! that’s the one! you catch on very quickly! you are doing a great job here in your new role!
@6f228c868618d66909b27756ccfde815:disqus: Actually, I didn’t know what you meant. Sorry.
And it’s not about the money. My beef is that someone is calling the police on their neighbors. I don’t care if it’s $1 or $10,000. I don’t call the police when someone goes 60 in a 55, I don’t call the police when someone smokes within 10 feet of a restaurant, I don’t call the police when someone lets their dog off-leash in the park, I don’t call the police when someone crosses outside the cross walk. I don’t want to live a place where people call the police every time someone breaks any letter of the law. That’s my opinion, you don’t have to share it.
Sorry if you thought I was attacking you. All I did was ask about the Rodney King thing. I really had no idea what you meant.
Its very bad things that Park own cars front of House or Apartments. and off course its illegal activity.Once Upon I was in USA and where i was living Some one park his Car on my Apartment.I just Call at Blocked Driveway Towing.within 10 Mints They Come and Hi jack his Car and Everything has Clear.he was gave Heavy Plenty to That Company.
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hell with parking. I’ve started riding a bike to work and it makes you realize just how dirty and inefficient cars are for the city environment. But Peoples have Fight on daily basis cause for Illegal Vehicle Towing
The one of the main reason of the blocked driveway is the pressure of the parking and as well as the more coupled cars. For this cause, Blocked Driveway become a huge problem arrived and is going to facing by the many car owners.
victim provided police with the note and told officers she believed it had been written by a man in the neighborhood who has previously griped about the parking situation on the block. She also said this wasn’t the first time someone had left a note on her Car Service in Washington DC
Blocked Driveway Towing can be a lifesaver especially when people want to take their vehicle out to go their offices, drop off their children to school or perform any mundane task.
This is legal. A citizen can do this:
http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/parking/drivewaymarking.htm