Is this rude? Street parking question.

[Anonymous]

Would you want your neighbors to do this to you? Of course its rude. My neighbors do it to us and get mad when we then park in front of their house.

[Anonymous]

I don't care at all when someone else parks in front of my house. But we have a driveway where we keep our main car; the second car is usually on the street, either in front of or beside our house.

Someone did once park parallel in front of our driveway for an entire morning, blocking our car in, which was... significantly more rude. Turned out they left by the time I needed to take the car anywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't care at all when someone else parks in front of my house. But we have a driveway where we keep our main car; the second car is usually on the street, either in front of or beside our house.

Someone did once park parallel in front of our driveway for an entire morning, blocking our car in, which was... significantly more rude. Turned out they left by the time I needed to take the car anywhere.

I think you're posting in the wrong thread or misunderstanding the question/topic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If all the spots are always taken, I think it's weird for people to get mad about the spot in front of their house being occupied. We're all just looking for a spot on our block.

But in your example, knowing you're not going to drive often and *knowing there are open spots down the block* it's unnecessary to park long-term directly in front of someone else's house. Not illegal, but either thoughtless or passive aggressive.

OP here. I'm not talking about finding a single spot (not in front of your home), and just finding a spot that you can. I'm talking about STAYING in that parking spot for weeks, in the rare occasion that you drive the vehicle. Is that rude?

Yes, it is rude. If you have to park in front of someone else's house, you should try to move your car when reasonably convenient to do so - in the case of someone who works from home, they should move it the next morning when people have gone to work and other spots on the street have opened up.

+1 Totally rude to leave a car that is not being used in a space in front of someone else's house.

I don’t find this rude at all. Why is it rude? Street parking is open to all, it is a public subsidy being provided by the city or county. How is it rude to use it? If someone is parked in front of my house and I need to unload something heavy I can double park for a few minutes and re-park. I had young kids in an urban area and never expected to be able to park anywhere. It was all fine.

[Anonymous]

Once a car is parked, I don’t think there is any obligation to move it if it is parked on a public street. A car is not abandoned because it is not driven in a week. Our neighbor’s basement tenant parked right at the end of our driveway and only drove on Saturdays for years. It was annoying to multi-point turn every time you pulled out, but the guy was in a legal parking spot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Once a car is parked, I don’t think there is any obligation to move it if it is parked on a public street. A car is not abandoned because it is not driven in a week. Our neighbor’s basement tenant parked right at the end of our driveway and only drove on Saturdays for years. It was annoying to multi-point turn every time you pulled out, but the guy was in a legal parking spot.

This is an ordinance in Gaithersburg:

Sec. 14-16. - Parking for more than forty-eight hours prohibited.
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No person shall park any motor vehicle or other vehicle upon any street, avenue, road, highway, public parking lot or vacant lot for a continuous period of more than forty-eight hours at any one time.

(Res. No. R-30-65, § 1-1.06; Ord. No. O-2-79)

You can remain parked on a street, but you need to move your car every 48 hours to comply with this ordinance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Once a car is parked, I don’t think there is any obligation to move it if it is parked on a public street. A car is not abandoned because it is not driven in a week. Our neighbor’s basement tenant parked right at the end of our driveway and only drove on Saturdays for years. It was annoying to multi-point turn every time you pulled out, but the guy was in a legal parking spot.

This is an ordinance in Gaithersburg:

Sec. 14-16. - Parking for more than forty-eight hours prohibited.
SHARE LINK TO SECTIONPRINT SECTIONDOWNLOAD (DOCX) OF SECTIONSEMAIL SECTIONCOMPARE VERSIONS
No person shall park any motor vehicle or other vehicle upon any street, avenue, road, highway, public parking lot or vacant lot for a continuous period of more than forty-eight hours at any one time.

(Res. No. R-30-65, § 1-1.06; Ord. No. O-2-79)

You can remain parked on a street, but you need to move your car every 48 hours to comply with this ordinance.

What a stupid ordinance. It is being massively violated daily. You can’t park your car on the street in front of your house for more than 48 hours? You come home on Friday at 6pm; you stay home on the weekend; your 48 hours timer runs out at 6pm on Sunday and you have to move your car to comply? Who does that? Is it a joke?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Once a car is parked, I don’t think there is any obligation to move it if it is parked on a public street. A car is not abandoned because it is not driven in a week. Our neighbor’s basement tenant parked right at the end of our driveway and only drove on Saturdays for years. It was annoying to multi-point turn every time you pulled out, but the guy was in a legal parking spot.

This is an ordinance in Gaithersburg:

Sec. 14-16. - Parking for more than forty-eight hours prohibited.
SHARE LINK TO SECTIONPRINT SECTIONDOWNLOAD (DOCX) OF SECTIONSEMAIL SECTIONCOMPARE VERSIONS
No person shall park any motor vehicle or other vehicle upon any street, avenue, road, highway, public parking lot or vacant lot for a continuous period of more than forty-eight hours at any one time.

(Res. No. R-30-65, § 1-1.06; Ord. No. O-2-79)

You can remain parked on a street, but you need to move your car every 48 hours to comply with this ordinance.

What a stupid ordinance. It is being massively violated daily. You can’t park your car on the street in front of your house for more than 48 hours? You come home on Friday at 6pm; you stay home on the weekend; your 48 hours timer runs out at 6pm on Sunday and you have to move your car to comply? Who does that? Is it a joke?

DP. Alexandria has a similar rule - 72 weekday hours. If your neighbor calls, parking enforcement will give you a ticket. It's a good rule, and helps prevent people from using the street as a long term parking lot.

If you're going on vacation, you can request a waiver. Nobody should be using the street - especially busy areas in front of people's home - as a long term lot. That's not what street parking is designed for.

If you rarely drive, then maybe find a lot to store your car or get rid of it.

[Anonymous]

If you have a car you always use and a car you rarely use, it would be more kind and neighborly to park one further away. Especially if your neighbors are elderly, have small kids, or are being deprived of the ability to park at their house and bring groceries in and out.

Basically if the neighbor would actively use the spot in front of their home and you are just parked there for a week at a time, that’s legal but pretty rude and selfish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Once a car is parked, I don’t think there is any obligation to move it if it is parked on a public street. A car is not abandoned because it is not driven in a week. Our neighbor’s basement tenant parked right at the end of our driveway and only drove on Saturdays for years. It was annoying to multi-point turn every time you pulled out, but the guy was in a legal parking spot.

This is an ordinance in Gaithersburg:

Sec. 14-16. - Parking for more than forty-eight hours prohibited.
SHARE LINK TO SECTIONPRINT SECTIONDOWNLOAD (DOCX) OF SECTIONSEMAIL SECTIONCOMPARE VERSIONS
No person shall park any motor vehicle or other vehicle upon any street, avenue, road, highway, public parking lot or vacant lot for a continuous period of more than forty-eight hours at any one time.

(Res. No. R-30-65, § 1-1.06; Ord. No. O-2-79)

You can remain parked on a street, but you need to move your car every 48 hours to comply with this ordinance.

What a stupid ordinance. It is being massively violated daily. You can’t park your car on the street in front of your house for more than 48 hours? You come home on Friday at 6pm; you stay home on the weekend; your 48 hours timer runs out at 6pm on Sunday and you have to move your car to comply? Who does that? Is it a joke?

DP. Alexandria has a similar rule - 72 weekday hours. If your neighbor calls, parking enforcement will give you a ticket. It's a good rule, and helps prevent people from using the street as a long term parking lot.

If you're going on vacation, you can request a waiver. Nobody should be using the street - especially busy areas in front of people's home - as a long term lot. That's not what street parking is designed for.

If you rarely drive, then maybe find a lot to store your car or get rid of it.

In a WFH era, those rules are really dumb. Lots of people only drive on weekends now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Permissible? Well, yes.

Rude and selfish? Also yes.

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[Anonymous]

Totally rude and I would ask the neighbors about it. Especially if it means you can’t park your own cars in front of your own house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If all the spots are always taken, I think it's weird for people to get mad about the spot in front of their house being occupied. We're all just looking for a spot on our block.

But in your example, knowing you're not going to drive often and *knowing there are open spots down the block* it's unnecessary to park long-term directly in front of someone else's house. Not illegal, but either thoughtless or passive aggressive.

OP here. I'm not talking about finding a single spot (not in front of your home), and just finding a spot that you can. I'm talking about STAYING in that parking spot for weeks, in the rare occasion that you drive the vehicle. Is that rude?

Yes, it is rude. If you have to park in front of someone else's house, you should try to move your car when reasonably convenient to do so - in the case of someone who works from home, they should move it the next morning when people have gone to work and other spots on the street have opened up.

+1 Totally rude to leave a car that is not being used in a space in front of someone else's house.

I don’t find this rude at all. Why is it rude? Street parking is open to all, it is a public subsidy being provided by the city or county. How is it rude to use it? If someone is parked in front of my house and I need to unload something heavy I can double park for a few minutes and re-park. I had young kids in an urban area and never expected to be able to park anywhere. It was all fine.

Street parking is not meant for storing cars. It's meant for come and go movement. If you're parking there for more than a couple days, especially as a regular basis and in front of someone else's house when there's space elsewhere, it's incredibly rude. You're lucky you don't live in a place where your neighbors can call parking enforcement on you, but they still probably hate you if you do this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Once a car is parked, I don’t think there is any obligation to move it if it is parked on a public street. A car is not abandoned because it is not driven in a week. Our neighbor’s basement tenant parked right at the end of our driveway and only drove on Saturdays for years. It was annoying to multi-point turn every time you pulled out, but the guy was in a legal parking spot.

This is an ordinance in Gaithersburg:

Sec. 14-16. - Parking for more than forty-eight hours prohibited.
SHARE LINK TO SECTIONPRINT SECTIONDOWNLOAD (DOCX) OF SECTIONSEMAIL SECTIONCOMPARE VERSIONS
No person shall park any motor vehicle or other vehicle upon any street, avenue, road, highway, public parking lot or vacant lot for a continuous period of more than forty-eight hours at any one time.

(Res. No. R-30-65, § 1-1.06; Ord. No. O-2-79)

You can remain parked on a street, but you need to move your car every 48 hours to comply with this ordinance.

What a stupid ordinance. It is being massively violated daily. You can’t park your car on the street in front of your house for more than 48 hours? You come home on Friday at 6pm; you stay home on the weekend; your 48 hours timer runs out at 6pm on Sunday and you have to move your car to comply? Who does that? Is it a joke?

DP. Alexandria has a similar rule - 72 weekday hours. If your neighbor calls, parking enforcement will give you a ticket. It's a good rule, and helps prevent people from using the street as a long term parking lot.

If you're going on vacation, you can request a waiver. Nobody should be using the street - especially busy areas in front of people's home - as a long term lot. That's not what street parking is designed for.

If you rarely drive, then maybe find a lot to store your car or get rid of it.

In a WFH era, those rules are really dumb. Lots of people only drive on weekends now.

It's not a WFH era for many people. Check your privilege and move your car. It's MORE rude if you WFH and keep your cars parked like bricks in areas where people need to load/unload stuff. Be a decent person and don't do this dude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Once a car is parked, I don’t think there is any obligation to move it if it is parked on a public street. A car is not abandoned because it is not driven in a week. Our neighbor’s basement tenant parked right at the end of our driveway and only drove on Saturdays for years. It was annoying to multi-point turn every time you pulled out, but the guy was in a legal parking spot.

This is an ordinance in Gaithersburg:

Sec. 14-16. - Parking for more than forty-eight hours prohibited.
SHARE LINK TO SECTIONPRINT SECTIONDOWNLOAD (DOCX) OF SECTIONSEMAIL SECTIONCOMPARE VERSIONS
No person shall park any motor vehicle or other vehicle upon any street, avenue, road, highway, public parking lot or vacant lot for a continuous period of more than forty-eight hours at any one time.

(Res. No. R-30-65, § 1-1.06; Ord. No. O-2-79)

You can remain parked on a street, but you need to move your car every 48 hours to comply with this ordinance.

What a stupid ordinance. It is being massively violated daily. You can’t park your car on the street in front of your house for more than 48 hours? You come home on Friday at 6pm; you stay home on the weekend; your 48 hours timer runs out at 6pm on Sunday and you have to move your car to comply? Who does that? Is it a joke?

Street parking is not for storage.