What is the name of your state? Missouri
First time poster, and I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
My husband and I moved here two years ago and live inside the city limits. We have 6 cars, three of which we use on the road, the other three are being worked on. We do not have a functional garage. They are not sitting on blocks. Since we have moved here, we have had neighbors complaining about the number of cars that we have. When the city comes out and checks them out, all they bust us on is the registrations. On the prior complaints, we had two of the cars in the lawn on the side of our yard, and we have moved them into the back yard. You cannot see either of those cars from the front of the house, or the road. Our back yard is partially fenced in, and the only way you can see these cars is if you walk into our back yard.
Today I get a voicemail left on my phone from the city that neighbors complained about our yard (I admit back yard is kind of high...it was going to be done this weekend) and the cars. She reiterates that she has contacted us on the cars before, and she will contact the police if need be. I looked up the city ordinances and do not see anything which prohibits us from having unregistered vehicles in our yard, nor the number of vehicles. Again, we are not at all driving these vehicles.
An acquaintance of my husband indicated that the city can't do anything about the vehicles on the properties per a case that went through the system a few years ago versus the City of Des Peres where a resident had a few cars in his yard that he was working on. I want to say that it went to State Supreme Court stating a city cannot dictate how many vehicles a person has on his/her property or whether they are registered. The registration dictates whether it can be legally driven on the road.
Does anybody know if the city can really do anything? Again, they had to physically walk into my yard to determine whether the two in the yard were unregistered. I am currently out of work, and our next project was to build a garage that would take care of this, but we don't know what to do in the mean time with nosy neighbors and the nagging city.
Also please inform me if I am misinformed.
First time poster, and I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
My husband and I moved here two years ago and live inside the city limits. We have 6 cars, three of which we use on the road, the other three are being worked on. We do not have a functional garage. They are not sitting on blocks. Since we have moved here, we have had neighbors complaining about the number of cars that we have. When the city comes out and checks them out, all they bust us on is the registrations. On the prior complaints, we had two of the cars in the lawn on the side of our yard, and we have moved them into the back yard. You cannot see either of those cars from the front of the house, or the road. Our back yard is partially fenced in, and the only way you can see these cars is if you walk into our back yard.
Today I get a voicemail left on my phone from the city that neighbors complained about our yard (I admit back yard is kind of high...it was going to be done this weekend) and the cars. She reiterates that she has contacted us on the cars before, and she will contact the police if need be. I looked up the city ordinances and do not see anything which prohibits us from having unregistered vehicles in our yard, nor the number of vehicles. Again, we are not at all driving these vehicles.
An acquaintance of my husband indicated that the city can't do anything about the vehicles on the properties per a case that went through the system a few years ago versus the City of Des Peres where a resident had a few cars in his yard that he was working on. I want to say that it went to State Supreme Court stating a city cannot dictate how many vehicles a person has on his/her property or whether they are registered. The registration dictates whether it can be legally driven on the road.
Does anybody know if the city can really do anything? Again, they had to physically walk into my yard to determine whether the two in the yard were unregistered. I am currently out of work, and our next project was to build a garage that would take care of this, but we don't know what to do in the mean time with nosy neighbors and the nagging city.
Also please inform me if I am misinformed.
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