Darrell Smith
Junior Member
What is the name of your state? Alabama
I live in Montgomery, a city with a population over 200,000. It's probally like any other city that size where the different neighborhoods represent ones financial status. I live in a middle class blue collar WORKING neighborhood. Houses sell for between 40 to 65,000. Most of the people keep a nice and clean yard. I have lived here for 18 years. Never new about a city ordinance that states you can't park an automobile in your front yard. I know in some neighborhoods this would be unheard of. But if I had a 3 car garage and a driveway the length of a football feild, I wouldn't need to park in the yard. I would say 50% of our neighborhood does. I'm sure I was not the only one to get a notice from the city, but there is still a lot that didn't. From what I've been told they only enforce it if someone complains. The way I see it is EVERYONE or NO ONE. I (my family) has four cars, three will fit in the driveway. The other one , I park off the drive way at the edge of the yard. The city expects you to park it on the street. Well over the last 17 years I have seen 5 parked cars get hit ,3 fender benders and 2 children on bicycles get hit. The speed limit is 25 MPH. Yep, I feel real secure parking on the street. I am buying my house, I keep the yards neat and clean and most important of all I MIND MY OWN BUSSINESS. I don' care what anybody else does in their yard as long as it don,t bother me or violate any REAL laws. I have a lot of questions about this situation,but I would like to hear someones SERIOUS opinion about this.
I live in Montgomery, a city with a population over 200,000. It's probally like any other city that size where the different neighborhoods represent ones financial status. I live in a middle class blue collar WORKING neighborhood. Houses sell for between 40 to 65,000. Most of the people keep a nice and clean yard. I have lived here for 18 years. Never new about a city ordinance that states you can't park an automobile in your front yard. I know in some neighborhoods this would be unheard of. But if I had a 3 car garage and a driveway the length of a football feild, I wouldn't need to park in the yard. I would say 50% of our neighborhood does. I'm sure I was not the only one to get a notice from the city, but there is still a lot that didn't. From what I've been told they only enforce it if someone complains. The way I see it is EVERYONE or NO ONE. I (my family) has four cars, three will fit in the driveway. The other one , I park off the drive way at the edge of the yard. The city expects you to park it on the street. Well over the last 17 years I have seen 5 parked cars get hit ,3 fender benders and 2 children on bicycles get hit. The speed limit is 25 MPH. Yep, I feel real secure parking on the street. I am buying my house, I keep the yards neat and clean and most important of all I MIND MY OWN BUSSINESS. I don' care what anybody else does in their yard as long as it don,t bother me or violate any REAL laws. I have a lot of questions about this situation,but I would like to hear someones SERIOUS opinion about this.
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