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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 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.

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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 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/

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.

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.

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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 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.

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.

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!