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"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit) 10/19/2016 at 13:32 • Filed to: None

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Don’t buy such a big ass’d SUV.

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Pixel > Takuro Spirit 10/19/2016 at 13:35

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Andrews pulls the vehicle up as far as it can go, adding, “I’ve hit the garage a few times.”

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[...]wants to know where the city would like her to park.

Hmm... Maybe in the garage?

Milky > Takuro Spirit 10/19/2016 at 13:40

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Lol. Time for 2 door wrangler.

functionoverfashion > Takuro Spirit 10/19/2016 at 13:45

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On the TV screen overlay:

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hmmmm....

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Takuro Spirit 10/19/2016 at 13:45

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Other tips: gravel and brick decorative fuckery more than doubling the required width for sidewalk/etc. in a neighborhood with drives that are already too short may be a warning that fuckery of a non-decorative and more pedantic asshole nature is probably in the pipeline.

If the resulting drive might still present issues for a Mazda 3 (20" shorter than an Enclave) or an ordinary Caravan/Town and Country (10" shorter), then it’s possible the drive is just too fucking short to park anything on and be clear.

I mean, just having a Grand Caravan would exceed the space taken up by the Enclave, and they’re parking it dead nuts as close as they can get. This, and they have an elderly person to get in and out. They’re not, repeat, not the bad guy here. That would be some combination of the architect/developer, the HOA or whoever does the sidewalk/street planning, and obviously whoever issued the ticket.

fourvalleys > Pixel 10/19/2016 at 13:45

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The driveways in my neighborhood are really short, so I’d say 40-50% of driveways have a second car blocking the sidewalk. There’s no street parking allowed, and they’re starting to crack down on people using visitor parking for residents’ cars.

I’m fortunate to have a driveway that’s about twice as long as everyone else’s, and by driving small cars I can almost fit three in my driveway without blocking the sidewalk. I wish they’d start ticketing people, it sucks walking off the sidewalk in wet grass to go around someone’s car.

In any case, that looks like a terrible setup. Yeah, that’s a big SUV (almost 17' long, jesus) but they can’t have more than 15' between their garage door and the sidewalk. That’s pretty rough.

I hope their garage is full of cool cars, in any case.

CalzoneGolem > Takuro Spirit 10/19/2016 at 13:48

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PUSA tip : Fuck California

BigBlock440 > Takuro Spirit 10/19/2016 at 13:51

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Ha, you called it “big” and “SUV”!

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > BigBlock440 10/19/2016 at 13:52

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If the shortest Tacoma currently on the market is a whole foot longer still, “big” is pretty relative.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/19/2016 at 14:05

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They’re still the bad guys. It’s not an HOA issue because it’s a citywide law. As far as I can tell, there’s a two car garage in front of the car. They can always - you know - park the car in there instead of blocking the sidewalk.

Tekamul > Takuro Spirit 10/19/2016 at 14:09

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It’s always amusing, when someone runs afoul of regulations, the first defense is “I’ve been doing it this way for years!” That is totally a good defense. Always works.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 10/19/2016 at 14:16

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Looks like a wide single-car garage to me. Certainly a single bay. Having more than a single car with a nuclear family which includes two parents, kids, and grandma is not wrong, and that means one of the cars is in the street . The reason I said possibly an HOA might share blame is that *somebody* made the dumbass decision that the total sidewalk-and-related space needed to be so big as to leave <15'. No HOA relation to the reg itself was implied or intended.

Drawing a curved path around the ass end of the car, there is nearly a full sidewalk width around, in the driveway space. I’d be very interested in the reg, but I suspect that what constitutes blocking a sidewalk path is very much up to the individual ticketing officer. Who, I contend, was a cockbite.

Their best solution, if the neighborhood is safe, might be to pull the nose into the garage and leave the bay open, but in most neighborhoods that’s a legendarily bad idea from a theft perspective. If they can swap cars so a shorter car is outside, that’s better, but I don’t know if it makes sense for them.

facw > Takuro Spirit 10/19/2016 at 14:19

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Yeah, I read an article on this issue here in Houston and it’s amazing how many people seem to think it’s totally OK to block the public right of way just because your driveway happens to pass through it. You don’t get to park blocking the sidewalk, and if that’s a problem, you should devote more of your property to parking/garage.

I had assumed since someone decided to cover it that “Ticked in their own driveway” was going to be for something tacky like expired registration on a car that was not actively being driven as opposed to anti-social asshatery like blocking sidewalks (to which I say, don’t just ticket, tow).

shop-teacher > Takuro Spirit 10/19/2016 at 15:00

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When house shopping, I rejected homes with similar parking issues. If I can’t park my truck there, no dice.

Berang > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/19/2016 at 18:38

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It’s that way because they live in an old house in an old neighborhood, back when people generally only had one car per family. So the “bad guys” are probably all dead now, and can’t really be blamed for a situation they never envisioned in the first place.

Berang > Takuro Spirit 10/19/2016 at 18:39

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You know, it looks like if they just pulled in at an angle they’d have all the room they need.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Berang 10/19/2016 at 18:59

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Probably true. The existing sidewalk location proportion relative to the gravel would suggest that at one time the gravel/brick border was a tree, flower, and other things decorative break - which would have been at peak popularity as much as sixty years ago. Whenever it was repoured and the gravel and brick laid would have been the time to reduce the right-of-way use if it was planned, but I don’t think it occurred to anyone.

Still, I don’t think making sure to spec car length down to the inch to prevent the city throwing a shitfit is something that would occur to a normal person buying a new car. Not when the only way to clear the sidewalk *almost* entirely would be to hit the average compact length numbers of a decade ago, let alone anything close to midsize today. They must be glad they didn’t think to buy a pickup - even the shortest of pickups available today are a foot longer still than the Enclave.