[DC] random car parked in front of my house

[Anonymous]

Someone, escort OP to a safe space stat!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, I just wish people would use a bit more courtesy---I get the idea that it's a public street and legally homeowner's don't own it. But if you plan on not moving the car for days pick a spot where it's not in front of someone's house because you just don't know if the homeowner is a elderly person that would appreciate having a spot in front of their home, or a family with children, or whatever the circumstances might be. I move from NYC and know that parking spot is a commodity for many cities---but when I look around and see tons of unrestricted spots around the corner by the park, it just irks me that you chose to park in a spot that I come and go into nearly everyday 7 days a week!

It's a public street. If it bothers you - research how to petition to have a restriction enacted for your street. Nobody in the process of parking wonders who lives in the houses and if they should somehow get priority - you don't do it either, it's just a load of nonsense. Signed - my neighbor parks in front of my house instead of their own and it bugs the hell out of me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here, unfortunately I live on a street with no parking restrictions. Argh... I did notice the on the car windshield it had an expired VA inspection sticker of 9/2017 so I wonder if the owner of the van was trying to get his van off a major road to "hide" his car on this block.

Lack of parking restriction does not matter for this purpose. Still call. Out of state cars cannot “loiter” in DC.

Based on what? If there is no parking restriction, there is no parking restriction and it shouldn't matter if it has D.C. or putbof state plates. The expired registration might be an issue to pursue since a car must have (presumably valid) plates to be on the street.

[Anonymous]

Look, if you report that the van seems abandoned, the police will check it out. If there is any way they can ticket and tow it they will do so. Worth a try.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, unfortunately I live on a street with no parking restrictions. Argh... I did notice the on the car windshield it had an expired VA inspection sticker of 9/2017 so I wonder if the owner of the van was trying to get his van off a major road to "hide" his car on this block.

Does it have VA Tags?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here, I just wish people would use a bit more courtesy---I get the idea that it's a public street and legally homeowner's don't own it. But if you plan on not moving the car for days pick a spot where it's not in front of someone's house because you just don't know if the homeowner is a elderly person that would appreciate having a spot in front of their home, or a family with children, or whatever the circumstances might be. I move from NYC and know that parking spot is a commodity for many cities---but when I look around and see tons of unrestricted spots around the corner by the park, it just irks me that you chose to park in a spot that I come and go into nearly everyday 7 days a week!

It's a public street. If it bothers you - research how to petition to have a restriction enacted for your street. Nobody in the process of parking wonders who lives in the houses and if they should somehow get priority - you don't do it either, it's just a load of nonsense. Signed - my neighbor parks in front of my house instead of their own and it bugs the hell out of me.

Do you not know your neighbor? Can you not talk to them? Our street in DC has an unwritten code of courtesy that we don't take the parking space in front of someone else's house if there are other spaces available.

[Anonymous]

OP, even if there aren't any parking restrictions, you can still call in a ROSA violation. Download the 311 app and take a picture.

[Anonymous]

OP, please, never park in my neighborhood. I know all my neighbors and we will be all reporting you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, it's just annoying, nothing more than that---same feeling you get when you pull into an empty parking lot with a million spots and the next car happens to park directly NEXT TO YOU.

I don't have a gripe when cars park and come and go--but this van just sits there and never moves. Plus, it makes me curious why you would park on this street when you live somewhere else and what made you pick this street and this particular spot?

Anyway, I'll see if this car moves by the end of the week and I'll call it in for "loitering" and expired tags.

I have seen that - it is a "more convenient" spot for them, in morning traffic, so that is where they stayed, every day for five years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here, unfortunately I live on a street with no parking restrictions. Argh... I did notice the on the car windshield it had an expired VA inspection sticker of 9/2017 so I wonder if the owner of the van was trying to get his van off a major road to "hide" his car on this block.

Lack of parking restriction does not matter for this purpose. Still call. Out of state cars cannot “loiter” in DC.

Based on what? If there is no parking restriction, there is no parking restriction and it shouldn't matter if it has D.C. or putbof state plates. The expired registration might be an issue to pursue since a car must have (presumably valid) plates to be on the street.

ROSA violation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:if it is out of state there has has to be a parking restriction, call the non-emergency line and have the police ticket it and request a tow.

You can also report online/by phone
https://311.dc.gov/

Could be a dead body in there - call cops.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here, unfortunately I live on a street with no parking restrictions. Argh... I did notice the on the car windshield it had an expired VA inspection sticker of 9/2017 so I wonder if the owner of the van was trying to get his van off a major road to "hide" his car on this block.

Lack of parking restriction does not matter for this purpose. Still call. Out of state cars cannot “loiter” in DC.

Based on what? If there is no parking restriction, there is no parking restriction and it shouldn't matter if it has D.C. or putbof state plates. The expired registration might be an issue to pursue since a car must have (presumably valid) plates to be on the street.

ROSA violation.

Yup. Out-of-state vehicles need to be registered in DC if in the District for more than 30 days. My guess is that the vehicle owner actually lives in DC but doesn't want to change the registration. The DDOT enforcement officers can now check on their handheld device if the city has previously given the car a ROSA warning. If so, they can now ticket the car.

The car won't get towed, but a ticket may scare the owner into moving the vehicle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, even if there aren't any parking restrictions, you can still call in a ROSA violation. Download the 311 app and take a picture.

There are abandoned car laws. You can't just park your car and leave it somewhere forever. After a few days they will boot it and tow it. You don't actually know if someone is returning to get the car. Or they could have stolen the car and then abandoned it or maybe someone's dead in there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, even if there aren't any parking restrictions, you can still call in a ROSA violation. Download the 311 app and take a picture.

There are abandoned car laws. You can't just park your car and leave it somewhere forever. After a few days they will boot it and tow it. You don't actually know if someone is returning to get the car. Or they could have stolen the car and then abandoned it or maybe someone's dead in there.

Read:

https://dpw.dc.gov/service/removal-abandoned-and-dangerous-vehicles

[Anonymous]

OP, I'd be weird out too ... especially since it has non-DC plates