Second to last house on cul de sac and people keep pulling in our driveway to turn around - how to stop them?

[Anonymous]

Why do you care, OP?

You sound crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP needs to petition for her DOT to put up dead end signs. And check Waze/Google Maps. Something is sending so many people your way and likely needs to be fixed.

It's probably delivery people going to houses on her street

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Anonymous wrote:That bugs me too. On my property, potential damage, drives my dog nuts. Irrational or not, it seems like an invasion of my space and it just annoys me. It happens a couple times a week for me and I am not in a cul de sac.

+1. Stay the f**k off my property. It's not a hard concept. I'd start with a sign and I'd progress to the spikes if it didn't stop.

It's a driveway. People use driveways for turnarounds. You're in the wrong on this.

It is private property. If OP doesn’t want anyone using it, of course she can block it.

[Anonymous]

Our neighbor across the street uses our driveway all the time. We park low down on our driveway when we are both home and that blocks our driveway.

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Anonymous wrote:That bugs me too. On my property, potential damage, drives my dog nuts. Irrational or not, it seems like an invasion of my space and it just annoys me. It happens a couple times a week for me and I am not in a cul de sac.

+1. Stay the f**k off my property. It's not a hard concept. I'd start with a sign and I'd progress to the spikes if it didn't stop.

It's a driveway. People use driveways for turnarounds. You're in the wrong on this.

NP. It's private property. You're not supposed to trespass. I'd you need to turn around, do it on the street.

This is incorrect. Emergency vehicles must have access to a driveway. And others may use a driveway.

[Anonymous]

Put up a gate and fence off your property.

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Anonymous wrote:That bugs me too. On my property, potential damage, drives my dog nuts. Irrational or not, it seems like an invasion of my space and it just annoys me. It happens a couple times a week for me and I am not in a cul de sac.

+1. Stay the f**k off my property. It's not a hard concept. I'd start with a sign and I'd progress to the spikes if it didn't stop.

It's a driveway. People use driveways for turnarounds. You're in the wrong on this.

NP. It's private property. You're not supposed to trespass. I'd you need to turn around, do it on the street.

This is incorrect. Emergency vehicles must have access to a driveway. And others may use a driveway.

Citation?

OP, use cones or a gate. There are remote gates, so you can just keep the remote in the car with you. Done and done.

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Anonymous wrote:That bugs me too. On my property, potential damage, drives my dog nuts. Irrational or not, it seems like an invasion of my space and it just annoys me. It happens a couple times a week for me and I am not in a cul de sac.

+1. Stay the f**k off my property. It's not a hard concept. I'd start with a sign and I'd progress to the spikes if it didn't stop.

It's a driveway. People use driveways for turnarounds. You're in the wrong on this.

NP. It's private property. You're not supposed to trespass. I'd you need to turn around, do it on the street.

This is incorrect. Emergency vehicles must have access to a driveway. And others may use a driveway.

Citation?

OP, use cones or a gate. There are remote gates, so you can just keep the remote in the car with you. Done and done.

Look it up according to your jurisdiction. Driveways are considered private property except for exceptions.

OP can build a gate and keep it closed. Or she can accept that living in the world includes other people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That bugs me too. On my property, potential damage, drives my dog nuts. Irrational or not, it seems like an invasion of my space and it just annoys me. It happens a couple times a week for me and I am not in a cul de sac.

I notice it happens to my neighbors across the street and I get annoyed for them. I have no idea if they care. (We don’t have a similar driveway).

[Anonymous]

OP, I totally understand why this bothers you. Heck, I live in a cul-de-sac and I hate when people speed through our circle and back out (we have TONS of kids on bikes or playing basketball at all times).

Do you have a clearly marked Dead End sign at the entry point to your street? We worked with the city to get a lower speed limit for our street (this was mostly for the Amazon trucks).

[Anonymous]

There’s a house on a residential street off of Mass Ave in Bethesda where the owner but up a posts and a chain across the bottom of the driveway. Apparently people kept thinking that street cut through to River Road, then once they realized it didn’t would use that driveway to turn around.

[Anonymous]

We are the third house coming into a dead end street. Everyone turns around in our driveway when they realize (I guess) that they're on the wrong street. It does not bother us. However, we have a paved driveway so we don't care. Our driveway is a wide, two car width driveway and we think that's why people use it to turn around, because most of the driveways in our neighborhood much more narrow as they are only one car width.

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Anonymous wrote:That bugs me too. On my property, potential damage, drives my dog nuts. Irrational or not, it seems like an invasion of my space and it just annoys me. It happens a couple times a week for me and I am not in a cul de sac.

+1. Stay the f**k off my property. It's not a hard concept. I'd start with a sign and I'd progress to the spikes if it didn't stop.

It's a driveway. People use driveways for turnarounds. You're in the wrong on this.

NP. It's private property. You're not supposed to trespass. I'd you need to turn around, do it on the street.

Have fun moving those driveway spikes every time you want to use your own driveway!

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Anonymous wrote:That bugs me too. On my property, potential damage, drives my dog nuts. Irrational or not, it seems like an invasion of my space and it just annoys me. It happens a couple times a week for me and I am not in a cul de sac.

+1. Stay the f**k off my property. It's not a hard concept. I'd start with a sign and I'd progress to the spikes if it didn't stop.

It's a driveway. People use driveways for turnarounds. You're in the wrong on this.

NP. It's private property. You're not supposed to trespass. I'd you need to turn around, do it on the street.

This is incorrect. Emergency vehicles must have access to a driveway. And others may use a driveway.

Citation?

OP, use cones or a gate. There are remote gates, so you can just keep the remote in the car with you. Done and done.

Look it up according to your jurisdiction. Driveways are considered private property except for exceptions.

OP can build a gate and keep it closed. Or she can accept that living in the world includes other people.

You seem overly invested in what OP does or does not do. Maybe address that, for yourself.

OP, in most jurisdictions (as PP admitted), your driveway is private property. I like the gate idea.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That bugs me too. On my property, potential damage, drives my dog nuts. Irrational or not, it seems like an invasion of my space and it just annoys me. It happens a couple times a week for me and I am not in a cul de sac.

+1. Stay the f**k off my property. It's not a hard concept. I'd start with a sign and I'd progress to the spikes if it didn't stop.

It's a driveway. People use driveways for turnarounds. You're in the wrong on this.

NP. It's private property. You're not supposed to trespass. I'd you need to turn around, do it on the street.

This is incorrect. Emergency vehicles must have access to a driveway. And others may use a driveway.

Citation?

OP, use cones or a gate. There are remote gates, so you can just keep the remote in the car with you. Done and done.

Look it up according to your jurisdiction. Driveways are considered private property except for exceptions.

OP can build a gate and keep it closed. Or she can accept that living in the world includes other people.

You can block your driveway in VA. You cannot block the road in front of a private driveway. Some local jurisdictions in VA say you cannot block the apron if a sidewalk cross the apron, but can block the other side of the apron.

https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title46.2/chapter12/section46.2-1239/#:~:text=No%20person%20shall%20park%20a,within%2020%20feet%20from%20the