Street Sweeping and nowhere to park!!!

[phear_me]

What is the name of your state?

California
Los Angeles County
Lakewood

The street sweeping occurs, in the entire neighborhood (1/2 mile radius at least) , between the hours of 7:00am and 12:00pm. We have a 2 car garage town home and own 3 cars. Hence, one of the cars must always be parked on the street. The problem is that, come Tuesdays, there is nowhere to park the extra car. Lakewood allows you to block your driveway during this time or park on your lawn if you have extra cars. Unfortunately, we have a small underground parking garage (my townhome complex has about 16 units) and NO GUEST PARKING for our facilities. So we have no driveway to park in and no lawn to park on.

There is literally NOWHERE to move the car. Zero. Zip. Nada. There are no permits offered by the city, and despite several complaints and phone calls, we have been given no solution to the problem.

This is all absolutely ridiculous and I feel powerless to overcome the injustice. Meanwhile, the tickets are beginning to add up. In fact, all of this is rather infuriating. We don't want to get in the way of the street sweepers, butthree of us live here and we all need cars. What is it, exactly, that we are supposed to do? Surely there is some law or statute that protects property owners from this sort of thing.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

[You Are Guilty]

Originally Posted by phear_me

What is it, exactly, that we are supposed to do?

Sell a car?
Buy a pair of comfortable walking shoes?

[seniorjudge]

Originally Posted by You Are Guilty

Sell a car?
Buy a pair of comfortable walking shoes?

I have some very nifty swampland for sale just west of NOLA.

No streets.

Therefore, no street sweeping.

[tranquility]

Take a car to work/school when you leave in the morning?

[patstew]

Are the streets around you cleaned at the same time? Unless you have a walking disability, perhaps you can park a block or two away.

[xylene]

Are their no private storage / parking facilities?

Why is it the city's problem to provide you with parking at ALL.

Let alone parking for 1.5 vehicles per resident?

[phear_me]

Originally Posted by patstew

Are the streets around you cleaned at the same time? Unless you have a walking disability, perhaps you can park a block or two away.

The do the entire city. 7:00am - 12:00pm.

Why should the city provide for me? Gee, maybe because it's the job of the city to provide for all of it's citizens. That is why the CITIZENS fund the city via taxes, no?

What good does it do you to understand the law if you've forgotten the moral and sociological basis from which it was founded? Screwing people without common sense recognition of current modern society (i.e. given urban sprawl it is absolutely necessary for every person in CA to have a car - and 3 adults living in a 3 bedroom townhome is also quite reasonable) isn't part of the social contract.

If you can't help me by providing legal precedent either way then please do me a favor and keep the smart ass remarks to yourselves.

[Zigner]

Originally Posted by phear_me

The do the entire city. 7:00am - 12:00pm.

This is FALSE - your city has zones that are swept on various days. Last year, the Thursday ban was implemented. Now, the Tues & Friday ban. The ENTIRE CITY is not a no-parking zone from 7 to 12.
Additionally, you are allowed to park your car on the lawn that day, or, you can park you car in the street AFTER the sweeper passes by.

Take some time to educate YOURSELF about your city's rules before you come here with an attitude.


See http://www.presstelegram.com/ci_8255933 for more info

[CdwJava]

Originally Posted by phear_me

There is literally NOWHERE to move the car. Zero. Zip. Nada. There are no permits offered by the city, and despite several complaints and phone calls, we have been given no solution to the problem.

Unfortunately, there is no legal grounds to stand on if the city does not provide an exception. They have a right to require you to move the cars off the street at certain times to conduct routine maintenance and street sweeping.

Where I used to live (also in southern California) a number of people would get up in the morning when the street sweepers and parking enforcement folks were coming, they would remove the cars (go shopping, run an early morning errand, leave early, etc.) and then return the car if they did not have to leave for work. Was it a pain one day a week? Sure. But, it was cheaper than the alternative (a $75 cite). Most people just wrote the extra hour or two into their morning schedule once per week - they all lived.

- Carl

[patstew]

Originally Posted by phear_me

Why should the city provide for me? Gee, maybe because it's the job of the city to provide for all of it's citizens. That is why the CITIZENS fund the city via taxes, no?.

No.

Taxes pay for city services (police, fire, etc.), not for parking, which is a privilege, not a right.

If you can't help me by providing legal precedent either way then please do me a favor and keep the smart ass remarks to yourselves.

You posts in public, you takes your chances.

[CourtClerk]

I am VERY familiar with this city... and they DO NOT sweep the whole entire city on the same day of the week.