Parking illegally for church not ticketed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC doesn't generally enforce any parking on Sundays.

I got a ticket in DC parked in front of a church on a Sunday. The ticket was for parking parallel (like everyone else on the block) instead of angled. So they definitely ticket on Sunday's.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, but they grew up there. There grandmother still lives there. Other family still lives there.

It will ALWAYS be "their" neighborhood, because THEY have a family history there. You, do not. You're there until your next career move happens, and you're off to another city. And after you leave, they'll stil be double parking, long after you're gentrifying someplace else.

Your white privilege has no power when it comes to church parking.

Deal.

My husband is white, born and raised in this city. It's not white or black it's D.C. Vs MD

Church parking was traditionally about middle class blacks from the Maryland suburbs pushing around working class blacks in DC neighborhoods. When middle class whites started moving into those neighborhoods it upset the balance.

[Anonymous]

Liberals sending their kids to charter schools and getting mad online about favors for black church parking is what makes dcum the greatest.

[Anonymous]

Gentrifiers moving into the city then complaining about how they don't like how the city is run.
Get a grip. This is one morning a week. You don't own the streets.

i don't understand why people don't know how to share.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gentrifiers moving into the city then complaining about how they don't like how the city is run.
Get a grip. This is one morning a week. You don't own the streets.

i don't understand why people don't know how to share.

I thought the govt of the District of Columbia owned the streets?

[Anonymous]

Here's what I don't get-- why don't they just change the parking around more churches to ALLOW parking on Sunday mornings only? That certainly exists around some churches-- why not extend it, and then enforce?

I'd much prefer legal parking for a 4-hour window (or whatever) than random illegal parking all day.

[Anonymous]

Vote out the pols who bow to suburban congregations. All it will take is one of those assholes losing an election for the entire system to change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's what I don't get-- why don't they just change the parking around more churches to ALLOW parking on Sunday mornings only? That certainly exists around some churches-- why not extend it, and then enforce?

I'd much prefer legal parking for a 4-hour window (or whatever) than random illegal parking all day.

Been working, only the new folks want to change. Not everything in life has to be micromanaged.

Life isn't all about getting to yoga a minute earlier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's what I don't get-- why don't they just change the parking around more churches to ALLOW parking on Sunday mornings only? That certainly exists around some churches-- why not extend it, and then enforce?

I'd much prefer legal parking for a 4-hour window (or whatever) than random illegal parking all day.

Been working, only the new folks want to change. Not everything in life has to be micromanaged.

Life isn't all about getting to yoga a minute earlier.

No. Life is about asserting the raw political power to control policy in a city you have left, where any property you owned you have likely sold. Somehow violating the law there, and inconveniencing (or even endangering) the people who live there, is reparations for slavery. Odd way of thinking to me - it doesn't really do anything for the large numbers of african americans in Maryland and DC who do not park illegally to go to church - but for some cultural politics (snark about yoga for example) is far more important than tangible change. It is what it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's what I don't get-- why don't they just change the parking around more churches to ALLOW parking on Sunday mornings only? That certainly exists around some churches-- why not extend it, and then enforce?

I'd much prefer legal parking for a 4-hour window (or whatever) than random illegal parking all day.

Been working, only the new folks want to change. Not everything in life has to be micromanaged.

Life isn't all about getting to yoga a minute earlier.

No. Life is about asserting the raw political power to control policy in a city you have left, where any property you owned you have likely sold. Somehow violating the law there, and inconveniencing (or even endangering) the people who live there, is reparations for slavery. Odd way of thinking to me - it doesn't really do anything for the large numbers of african americans in Maryland and DC who do not park illegally to go to church - but for some cultural politics (snark about yoga for example) is far more important than tangible change. It is what it is.

Somebody needs a hug.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You must be new around here. Church goers in DC are not required to follow the law.

This has been a battle for years and years. I don't even live in DC proper and I am familiar with the residents vs black churchgoers (who travel to the city for church) war that has been waged for years. Lots of media coverage. Church has been winning.

What's "DC proper"?! Why not just say Washington or the District?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's what I don't get-- why don't they just change the parking around more churches to ALLOW parking on Sunday mornings only? That certainly exists around some churches-- why not extend it, and then enforce?

I'd much prefer legal parking for a 4-hour window (or whatever) than random illegal parking all day.

Been working, only the new folks want to change. Not everything in life has to be micromanaged.

Life isn't all about getting to yoga a minute earlier.

No. Life is about asserting the raw political power to control policy in a city you have left, where any property you owned you have likely sold. Somehow violating the law there, and inconveniencing (or even endangering) the people who live there, is reparations for slavery. Odd way of thinking to me - it doesn't really do anything for the large numbers of african americans in Maryland and DC who do not park illegally to go to church - but for some cultural politics (snark about yoga for example) is far more important than tangible change. It is what it is.

Don't forget "Ward 9," baby!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, but they grew up there. There grandmother still lives there. Other family still lives there.

It will ALWAYS be "their" neighborhood, because THEY have a family history there. You, do not. You're there until your next career move happens, and you're off to another city. And after you leave, they'll stil be double parking, long after you're gentrifying someplace else.

Your white privilege has no power when it comes to church parking.

Deal.

My husband is white, born and raised in this city. It's not white or black it's D.C. Vs MD

Church parking was traditionally about middle class blacks from the Maryland suburbs pushing around working class blacks in DC neighborhoods. When middle class whites started moving into those neighborhoods it upset the balance.

True this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC doesn't generally enforce any parking on Sundays.

I got a ticket in DC parked in front of a church on a Sunday. The ticket was for parking parallel (like everyone else on the block) instead of angled. So they definitely ticket on Sunday's.

Were you parked in Upper NW?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, but they grew up there. There grandmother still lives there. Other family still lives there.

It will ALWAYS be "their" neighborhood, because THEY have a family history there. You, do not. You're there until your next career move happens, and you're off to another city. And after you leave, they'll stil be double parking, long after you're gentrifying someplace else.

Your white privilege has no power when it comes to church parking.

Deal.

Their grandmother can vote then. Why do they get votes based on where they have family history? Lots of people have family history in the District who have no affiliation with these churches (yes, people were moving out of the District in the 1950s). If people got votes based on family history, Marion Barry would not have been elected Mayor.

Voting based on residence is not white privilege.

It's hard for folks to accept that Chocolate City is melting away. Hence the movement to put up a statute of Marion Barry downtown and rename UDC for him.