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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 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?

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?

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?

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?

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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 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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.