Parking illegally for church not ticketed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not just churches who do this, by the way -- my synagogue in Cleveland Park has spots on its block where no parking is allowed except on Saturday mornings, and it also gets permission every year to let people park without the proper zone stickers during the Jewish high holy days. (On Porter Street behind it, however, the city does still ticket for parking at expired meters during services.)

I'm not sure what your point is. If I understand you correctly, your synagogue makes arrangements so that people attending services have sufficient legal parking spaces, and those who chose to park illegally get ticketed. That's a far cry from having congregants leave their car wherever is convenient, neighbors be damned.

How do you know the churches haven't made similar arrangements that the neighbors simply don't know about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not just churches who do this, by the way -- my synagogue in Cleveland Park has spots on its block where no parking is allowed except on Saturday mornings, and it also gets permission every year to let people park without the proper zone stickers during the Jewish high holy days. (On Porter Street behind it, however, the city does still ticket for parking at expired meters during services.)

Let me just say, as a Conservative Jew, I think that is taking the driving leniency just a tad too far, especially for an urban shul - thinking a bit less of Adas.

There are members who live far beyond walking distance, and I don't think most Conservative shuls really honor the prohibition on driving. Plenty of people walk, but you expect people who live in, say, Bethesda to do that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Churches have some leeway in their parking.

and historically black congregations seem to have even more leeway, even though a lot of their worshippers no longer live in DC and drive in from the 'burbs.

So you have to live where you worship? That's new

[Anonymous]

Why is race even bought into this discussion? I tell you these new Mid-Westerns are really nuts.

Any Church in DC can take advantage of lax parking restrictions on Sunday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the way church parking has worked for decades.

Just because YOU live here now, doesn't mean you get to transform every detail of the neighborhood into something that fits your idea of how things "should be".

Those people at the church were parking like that 30 years before you bought your renovated, subdivided human filing cabinet with granite countertops and bamboo floors.

So just accept it as part of living in a city.

The city is enforcing the law in a discriminatory manner (favoring religion). It's a constitutional violation. Not to mention that it makes driving around places like Lincoln Park 100 times more dangerous because children can dart out from between parked cars. There's a reason there's no parking signs there.

You're not from DC, are you?

If no one is ticketed, it's not discriminatory.

[Anonymous]

Jesus hates illegal parking. That's the one sin he didn't die for Mark 4:24.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is race even bought into this discussion? I tell you these new Mid-Westerns are really nuts.

Any Church in DC can take advantage of lax parking restrictions on Sunday.

Lax parking restrictions is parking out of zone. These a holes are double parking entire streets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not just churches who do this, by the way -- my synagogue in Cleveland Park has spots on its block where no parking is allowed except on Saturday mornings, and it also gets permission every year to let people park without the proper zone stickers during the Jewish high holy days. (On Porter Street behind it, however, the city does still ticket for parking at expired meters during services.)

I'm not sure what your point is. If I understand you correctly, your synagogue makes arrangements so that people attending services have sufficient legal parking spaces, and those who chose to park illegally get ticketed. That's a far cry from having congregants leave their car wherever is convenient, neighbors be damned.

How do you know the churches haven't made similar arrangements that the neighbors simply don't know about?

Um, because their members' cars are parked in the middle of the street?

[Anonymous]

I couldn't leave town for my grandmothers visitation and wake because one of the entitled "christians" with MD plates blocked my driveway and no cop would do dick about it. Fuck them and fuck their entitlement.

[Anonymous]

Hmmmmm, last time you said it was going to the grocery store. And another time it was to go the hospital. And I think I recall also reading about it making you late for yoga class.

Now it's your granny's funeral.


You seem to be really busy on Sunday mornings, huh?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hmmmmm, last time you said it was going to the grocery store. And another time it was to go the hospital. And I think I recall also reading about it making you late for yoga class.

Now it's your granny's funeral.


You seem to be really busy on Sunday mornings, huh?

I'm not a pp on this thread. I've never posted here before about grocery shopping and the like. I needed to leave town and I couldn't. I ended up take a 12 hour bus ride to western pa.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hmmmmm, last time you said it was going to the grocery store. And another time it was to go the hospital. And I think I recall also reading about it making you late for yoga class.

Now it's your granny's funeral.


You seem to be really busy on Sunday mornings, huh?

You do realize this happens all over the city? It can affect more than one person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hmmmmm, last time you said it was going to the grocery store. And another time it was to go the hospital. And I think I recall also reading about it making you late for yoga class.

Now it's your granny's funeral.


You seem to be really busy on Sunday mornings, huh?

Why the hell does it matter what the reason that someone needs to get out? Since when is it remotely socially acceptable to park in another person's car?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Why the hell does it matter what the reason that someone needs to get out? Since when is it remotely socially acceptable to park in another person's car?

Only when it's AA church goers doing the blocking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Why the hell does it matter what the reason that someone needs to get out? Since when is it remotely socially acceptable to park in another person's car?

Only when it's AA church goers doing the blocking.

Not in my neighborhood.