Street parking is fair game and legally available to everyone.
parking anywhere is fine, taking up more than 1 spot is not cool.
The problem is you took two spaces!
Don't take two spaces!
If you suck at parking, go practice. Street parking is open to everyone, sure, but don't be a dick about it and take up 2 spots.
Why are you living somewhere with no parking if you have a car?
I honestly understand both sides - I get it, you need somewhere to park your car and it's super annoying when there's nowhere to park.
But I've also lived somewhere where people kept leaving their car parked in front, and it was really annoying. It wasn't their space to park in.
Honestly, I would honour the sign. You don't live on that street so you shouldn't park there.
Um, no, it actually isn't. Especially in the UK where every square inch is compact and accounted for.
Yeah but it's still a dick move to park in front of a house that isn't yours all the time.
Be a good citizen and neighbour, don't be that guy who starts wheeling out the legal technicalities.
OP, if its a public road they can fuck off. You're fine.
Speaking of which, why do people get so mad about cars in front of their house? My girlfriend's neighbors have told her parents that they don't want me parking in front kf their house. Why do you care? Its a public street. Also nobody is looking at your damn house.
In most places you can apply to your city to have a space in front of a house designated as disabled. Not sure how you expect anybody to know your personal situation otherwise. They are public spots. Should people just never park anywhere because someone else might need it?
Also, why do you own a car if your home/apartment doesn't provide parking? There is nothing available on your street? Where was your car stored before you got your licience or did you just buy it? Is there not public transportation? Can you not car pool? Or get scooter? Is there a lot near by you can rent parking form? If you need a car, should you not move to where you can have parking?
Yes, public parking is open for everyone, but if there is no space, there simple is no space. You are not helping by denying another resident a parking spot by taking two spaces. They can't claim the spot, but they have every right to call you out for taking up more space than you need.
glad you don't live in my neighborhood.
ever heard of "residential parking only"?
[guess not]
OP, don't consistently park in front of another person's house when they're already consistently having issues parking in front of THEIR OWN DAMN HOUSE.
at least in my municipality, it's very illegal for most people to just roll up and park in front of my house.
but this is partly due to the way taxes work here, us homeowners fork over pretty much 100% of the municipal taxes through property tax [we pay over $5,000 a year just to own a house].
whereas in the UK everyone pays council tax, regardless of whether you own a house or not, so i would presume everyone has equal rates to all municipal services [and probably no such thing as residential parking?].
still, this note was NOT unfriendly - i think you could talk to this person and just explain what you explained in the OP and they should be receptive to it.
i dunno, you seem nice, they seem nice [for a NIMBY] i think this has potential.
edit: aaand, it seems like we finally have some more homeowners chiming in, glad to see i'm not the only one kind of siding with the homeowners here.
Meh, strong disagree.
In BC, residential parking is the norm - if you don't live on the street, you can't park there.
Then, even if you do, you might not be able to.
In my municipality, you only have the right to use residential street parking if you live in a home zoned as a single family dwelling.
Meaning, any tenants living in a suite, or anybody renting a room in a house split into multiple units, can fuck right off [those have to have off-street parking / garages / multiple driveway parking for those people to park in].
What happens here quite often, is those renters in those multiple unit homes use their legal garage / driveway parking for setting up mini carpentry / car-fixing shops - and park their six redneck vehicles on the street [which is fully fucking illegal].
Then us homeowners, who are the sole fucking financiers of the muncipality's entire fucking funding stream, can't even park in front of our own fucking houses.
edit: but this is the UK we're talking about, where it sounds like no such parking rules exist.
seems like manners and decorum should prevail, in which case a simple conversation would fix this entire issue.
Residential parking zone
53 (1) The driver of a vehicle may park it or permit it to remain parked on the street in a Residential Parking Zone if, in relation to a dwelling located on a City block abutting that Zone, the driver:
(a) resides there;
(b) is visiting an occupant there; or
(c) is transacting business, performing work, or rendering services there.
(2) Despite subsection (1), if only one side of a street is designated a Residential Parking Zone for a City block or part of a City block, a driver of a vehicle may park the vehicle or permit it to remain parked on that side of the street for any one or more of the purposes described in subsection (1) in relation to a dwelling if the dwelling is located on a lot that
(a) abuts a No Stopping Zone or a No Parking Zone that is on the other side of the street,
(b) is located on that City block,
(c) is located on the other side of the street directly across from the Residential Parking Zone, and
(d) is zoned, under the Zoning Regulation Bylaw, for single family dwelling or duplex use.
I dont like people routinely parking in front of my house. Park in your own lot.
It's really not that uncommon to lack space to park at home? I live on a one way street with no off road parking, I can sometimes end up 2 streets away from my house. It's all fair game.
The only thing I'd say is stop taking up more than one space.
We were one of the first houses in our sub-division (never do that three years of construction) and picked the largest lot and it was next to model home. For three years I had to put up with people parking in front of my house, in front of my mailbox, in front of my driveway and actually in my driveway, along with the occasional stranger peeking into the window to look at the inside of the house. We complained to the real estate agent and they did what they could but was annoying as fuck coming home to find a car in the driveway blocking my garage.
Now to your situation, just be mindful of residences, the one off parking is one thing, but all the time, not so much
I guess I got lucky but my driveway at home can fit 8 cars and then another two In the street outside my house. I can understand parking issues living at an apartment complex but they at least give you a single parking spot so I have no idea how a place you live doesn't at least provide you a parking spot.
I lived on a street without designated parking. I was never out a space, but I found it super annoying when someone parked in front of my house, especially when I had just come back with a bunch of shopping bags.
I never made a fuss about it, I just grumbled under my breath...it's not reserved, but it's generally accepted that you park in front of your own house.
Taking up two spaces makes you a douche though. Can't get past that one.
Learn to park ASAP. In area with very little public parking, it is a dick move to take up 2 spots, period. You're lucky they left a note instead of doing something drastic.
Also, why do you own a car if your home/apartment doesn't provide parking? There is nothing available on your street? Where was your car stored before you got your licience or did you just buy it? Is there not public transportation? Can you not car pool? Or get scooter? Is there a lot near by you can rent parking form? If you need a car, should you not move to where you can have parking?
Yes, public parking is open for everyone, but if there is no space, there simple is no space. You are not helping by denying another resident a parking spot by taking two spaces. They can't claim the spot, but they have every right to call you out for taking up more space than you need.
I'm sure everyone does park in front of their own house when they can.
It's not about legality, it's about consideration for your neighbors. I live on a street that is frequently parked on by a multitude of cars visiting a nearby district for restaurants and shopping. No big deal, I can park farther away. But when people park like imbeciles (taking up multiple spots through bad spacing, parking facing the wrong way, hastily pulling in so your car is two feet from the curb, etc.) now you're violating the social code. And, frankly, repeatedly parking on a residential street you don't live on violates the social code as well. It may be legal, but not having any consideration for the residents of that block is absolutely a moral failing. I realize in America caring about other people is viewed as Godless Commie talk, but this is something people should make more of an effort to be aware of so that we can all live together peacefully.
That post is referring to streets containing terraced houses with no individual driveways, just a very small front garden. Parking in these areas is a bit of a free-for-all. The OP's neighbourhood is, I assume, fairly similar in terms of parking.
1) It is not a driveway, it looks like a driveway, but it is half my neighbor's property and half mine. Also, for clarification the screaming guy is not the neighbor who shares the property line. My dad had no legit right to ask the guy not to park there.
2) the note my dad left was in chinese and I didn't know he left it so I just got woken up in the morning by a guy screaming at me while holding up a note in chinese. ( I am the son of immigrants and cannot read chinese)
Of course, but OP said he parks on another street because he can't drive properly.
This looks like an old friends mums street in bath.
I was thinking something similar, it really does look like Bath.
For example, in Victoria, the restriction on single-family dwellings only applies if one side of the street is marked residential. It doesn't apply if both sides are marked.
OP, does the road have little boxes to park in? Slightly confused by the two spaces comments as most streets in the UK will just be kerb with no specific parking boxes.
I lived on a street without designated parking. I was never out a space, but I found it super annoying when someone parked in front of my house, especially when I had just come back with a bunch of shopping bags.
I never made a fuss about it, I just grumbled under my breath...it's not reserved, but it's generally accepted that you park in front of your own house.
Taking up two spaces makes you a douche though. Can't get past that one.
Not OP but it sounds like there aren't any lines, it is just something like parking halfway between two driveways that could otherwise have two cars parked between them.OP, does the road have little boxes to park in? Slightly confused by the two spaces comments as most streets in the UK will just be kerb with no specific parking boxes.
Having grown up in a terraced streets surrounded by other terraced streets, you park where there is a space. You park outside your house when there is a space to do so, more often than not there isn't. Most of those houses have families with 2 or 3 cars do unless we start stacking, it ain't happening.I never made a fuss about it, I just grumbled under my breath...it's not reserved, but it's generally accepted that you park in front of your own house.
People from an apartment complex would park in front of my house everyday. I got fed up with it and bought a cheap car that I park in the middle to reserve the space and just move it when I get home from work.
Are you parking in the same space all the time? Even though parking on the road outside my house is a free for all residents, I'd get a bit pissed if the same person kept parking outside my house.
How does that work? You still need to find a spot later for the garbage car.