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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The towing company won’t tow your car if you’re parked legally in a public space.

But if there’s any doubt just move your car, why fight with what sounds like it might be a crazy person?[/quote]

I live on a city block where parking is really tough. This area is behind the sidewalk between two townhouses (one of them being mine) and might therefore seem private. According to the DC zoning map the part of it next to my house is not part of any lot. The other half belongs to the other townhouse. However, the person claiming it is theirs does not own or live in either of these two houses. They have just been parking there for years. Yesterday, we left the car there after coming from a long weekend and needing to offload the car and found an anonymous extremely rude threatening note on our windshield asking us to immediately move the car.  I am just wondering how credible this threat is. [/quote]

It's not a credible threat. Weird that some random dude is parking his car between two houses that he doesn't live in!

Install a fold-down parking bollard in the spot: https://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/H-7171/Safety-Guards-Barriers/Fold-Down-Safety-Bollard-45-x-36?pricode=WB6672&gadtype=pla&id=H-7171&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIn9HsoM26hAMVlElHAR2jRwt8EAQYASABEgLIh_D_BwE

[b]If you use the space long enough (15 years), eventually you qualify for adverse possession in DC: https://www.findlaw.com/state/dc-law/district-of-columbia-adverse-possession-laws.html[/b]

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Maye that's what the guy who is claiming it's "their spot" has done?[/quote]

He doesn't qualify for adverse possession until after 15 years of documented use and then he files a claim with the city to get it platted in his name and starts paying property taxes. OP already stated that the land is not owned by anyone, which I am sure OP discovered by looking at DC's property database. It's probably city property.

OP - the plat lines in the online tools offered by DC are not exact. I actually doubt your neighbor's house "owns" half the parcel; that is just likely an inaccuracy of DC's online property tools. I'd definitely pay a surveyor to survey the parcel + your property lines. A surveyor can confirm if your neighbor does indeed "own" half of the empty parcel. [/quote]

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