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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My neighbors have a two car garage, a giant frying pan shaped driveway that easily can accommodate 3-4 cars minimum and 5 cars for 2 drivers (they’re empty nesters so no kids) and they refuse to park any in their garage or driveway. INSTEAD they park their cars, strategically spaced just a little too far apart (so no one can try to park in between any of them) on the street directly in front of my driveway.

These people live across the street from me, so whenever you leave my driveway (backing out or driving straight) you almost hit their car.   Every time. The people that sold us the house told us they’d hit their cars twice.

We have asked them to please not park directly in front of the driveway so we can get in and out. And we cannot park on the street on our side of the street because there is only parking allowed on one side (the neighbor’s side) because the street is so narrow. So we must use our driveway.

We now have a teen driver, and after 15 years of living here we have asked them, politely again, and they said no. They’ve become famous on the street for being difficult for absolutely no reason. They just insufferable. [/quote]

While I genuinely (really!) sympathize with your plight PP, in all fairness the street is a public street and the neighbors have every right to park where they want.
I am specifically referring to them parking across the street on the only side where vehicles can park due to the narrow street - not parking close to your driveway.

Since taxpayers fund city streets I believe everyone has a legal right to park on it as long as they are not blocking driveways or leaving abandoned vehicles parked longer than three days.

I believe it is a first-come basis.[/quote]

Of course they can park on the street, we simply ask them to not park right in front of the driveway so we can have a turning radius. There is plenty of space for them to do this, especially if they parked their cars like normal parallel parkers and not 4-5 ft apart. What we are asking is not unreasonable.

There are some laws in many municipalities about how many feet one can park to a driveway to avoid this very problem. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to find one where we live in NOVA. Regardless it’s a pretty petty thing to do.[/quote]

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