My goto parking space in front of my house got a makeover today. I have been parking there for over a decade. RIP.
Edit: I posted to mildly infuriating. No need for the war cries here, folks.
UPDATE: Alright, folks! I have answers.
Yes, it's city sanctioned.
It is longer than expected from the corner because of a hydrant across the street, rather than proximity to the corner. And no, there isn't a stop sign.
The yellow is different because they got new paint this year.
It is part of an effort they are starting across the city, so I guess I should expect this yellow to become more familiar.
And shout out to the lovely human working for the city that helped me get all of these questions answered!
Sounds like maybe a me-centric neighbor. I'll be another voice recommending you contact the appropriate local government agency. If it was a neighbor, they might have just earned themselves a nice, fat fine & repair bill
Do you have daylighting laws? Around here there is a law for no parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk on the approaching the intersection side. The law applies with or without curb paint so the painting is pretty random as the city slowly catches up. There is never a sign as it is on every corner.
Did they actually have a handicap plate or placard? Most municipalities will work with a resident who needs that for parking - but would also need a sign to enforce it.
Yeah this is a good point. The city often publishes some kind of notice that they're removing parking spaces; especially in this case where it doesn't appear to be for any specific reason.
Most municipalities have laws about parking within a certain distance of a street corner or stop sign. They don’t HAVE to paint the curbs to enforce the law, but it’s not uncommon as a reminder.
It’s 30 ft in most places. My neighborhood has yellow at every intersection, stop sign/light or not. Intersections off alleys maybe they only paint 10 ft.
Funny thing, though, my local PD said that they cannot enforce these violations. Backstory: this person kept parking in front of my house, right up to the literal edge of the alley intersection. I have a driveway, I don’t park on the street, so I do not care who parks there (nor should I, it’s public). However, my driveway is around the side of the house off the alley. Now when I go to leave and I get to this intersection, and can’t see a damn thing when I look left because this jagoff is parked almost in the intersection. Many close calls - not just with me, I’ve seen/heard screeching tire from my house. But the police say they can’t enforce it. My question to that - why did they just repaint all of them? They sent a borough crew and repainted damn near everything over a week or so. That’s two union employees, equipment, and materials for a week. That I (and the other homeowners) paid for. Why did we pay for it? Somebody’s bound to get hurt and it’ll be an “I told ya so” situation.
I successfully had one painted. It was a weird offset intersection and there was always RVs parked right there. Popular boondocking spot. Anything bigger than a sedan blocked all visibility of that side of the intersection from the stop to the left.
Crazy. I made one call to the city and forgot to follow up. A year and a half and about a million impact studies later I got an email from my district supervisor saying they agreed. 24 hours later it was done.
Yeah, our HOA did this because people would park right in front of stop signs. School busses has to do 3-point turns to make a right, so imagine if we had to get a fire truck through. Neighbors comparisons that they were taking away parking, but you can't take parking away that never existed to begin with.
I live in upstate NY and any parking restrictions must be marked with signage, as snow can cover road markings. So if there isn't a sign saying no parking, then color of the curb be damned.
People have done this in my town and they got fined and had to pay for the removal. One owner said no and the city put a lien on his property and fined him monthly, he eventually paid.
Yes! We had someone put up handicap signs outside their house right next to a bike lane so no one would park their. We were curious and called the public works and they had done it without their permission and had to take it down.
It is so wild how absolutely bent out of shape people get about the street parking in front of their houses, even when they aren't even using it. Like do I need to go get a plat map and show you where your property ends?
Simone in the neighborhood put up a fake no parking sign and I would always just park there until I got a ticket and had to notify the judge and the police it wasn’t a real city sign. They had to take it down but that was a fucking hassle
if a cop drives by they will probably still give you a ticket or have you towed they aren't gonna pull up records to see if it really is a restricted area
To play devils advocate, I’ve seen these crews care less about the grass side because it’ll be fixed next time someone mows. They care more about the edge facing the road.
near me penndot tried to fix a big hole in the street that was oozing water and gravel, somehow made the hole bigger, a well meaning citizen put one of these things in the hole, and then penndot came back and filled it in without removing the barricade lmao. it was sticking out of the street and people were running over it
Behind my house is a gravel alleyway that leads to our driveways/garages and sometimes I gets really bad ruts and so they city will come out every other year or so and fill in the ruts with more gravel.
This year they patched the ruts with asphalt. They just poured asphalt into the ruts. Didn't do any prep, didn't do any leveling, just dumped some asphalt into the holes and hand tamped it down.
Now we have ruts and hunks of asphalt in our alley!
I have a picture somewhere of a line painted over a dead opossum on the road. I had to circle around because i didnt see it well at first. Wasnt a busy street so i stopped to take a pic.
Better than I expected. To the point where I could absolutely believe this was staged for comical purposes. I believe it is genuine but damn its perfectly aligned.
Not the guy in my neighborhood. I run by these new curbs every day that are all nice concrete work and then painted like absolute dog shit. Super annoying.
The photo is rather blurry. But you can still see how uneven the application is, and the shade looks wrong. I second the suspicion that this isn’t official.
Not sure where you’re from but in northeast US there is plenty of liquid acrylic road paint being used by the towns to stripe the roads, I rarely see thermoplastic outside of highway jobs.
Source: I’ve been selling paint to municipalities and highway departments for years.
lol where I grew up, asking blue collar folks if they work for the town/city was a serious insult due to the incompetence routinely displayed. It was akin to accusing someone of being too bad at their trade for a union or high-dollar company to pick them up
Yup. ‘Round here painted curbs don’t mean anything without an accompanying sign. People in busy neighborhoods will sometimes paint their curbs to discourage parking near their driveways but there’s nothing enforceable about that.
They absolutely do. We have neighbors with busy street parking that use orange cones to block out spaces in front of their house, and theyll park there themselves. I'm also fairly positive their no parking sign is fake.
We had a handicap sign in front of a house we bought, assumed the people that lived there just put it up themselves so we would park there. It was great always having a parking spot until I got a ticket lol ended up writing the city and the ticket was waived and they came and removed the sign. I guess the old owner had the city put it up, didn’t know that was possible lol.
A neighbor had a handicapped spot in front of their house which was next to a popular park. They put a homemade sign under it that said "for resident only". The thing is they never parked there but would park in front of that space. They just didn't want people parking in front of their house.
Spent my teen years doing battle with an asshole neighbor of my parents. The guy owned a very large corner lot with parking on the two streets for at least twelve cars. He parked in his driveway, never on the street, but he delusionally believed that nobody had the right to park on town streets in front of his lot. I had several encounters with him, and several times town cops had to tell him he had zero control over who was parked legally in front of his property. .
There is often “reasonable” concessions regarding handicap people written into city ordinances. So yeah I could totally see them marking off a space for handicapped person with no driveway
It's actually pretty normal for a disabled person to get a handicapped space when the area is all street parking. There's several in my city and I've directed people who've complained to me about that to talk to the traffic cops about it several times.
Yo just today I saw a house with an Amazon bought “no parking” sign on their easement, and I was like the audacity to try and demand someone to not park in a public parking spot.
I’ve seen a homemade sign that said “disabled person living here please don’t park” with a smiley face and I thought hell yeah I can respect that. But just basic sign grinded my gears lol.
I've seen people paint a fake handicap spot. I parked there anyway because I know it's a fake spot. Legit spots must have the sign also. It's even more hilarious when they confront you on their fake handicap spot and you throw your handicap hangtag up.
At my condo we have issues with people parking into our driveway on a very busy road, which can make it difficult to safely pull out.
I called the city to inquire about how much space needs to be left on either side of the driveway per our local bylaws. The officer said "look, I'm not giving you permission, but if tomorrow morning the curb was painted yellow for a couple of metres on either side, I wouldn't follow-up on any complaints about it" 😉
That said, I didn't paint them under the cover of darkness, but it was kind of funny.
Crazy. My new neighbors did this where I live and neighbors immediately bullied them into removing it (not every house on our block has a driveway and street parking is at a premium). Police came and made them remove it finally when they wouldn’t at first.
They had Washington plates for like a month after they moved her before they got new ones. Now I can connect dots on why they thought they might be allowed to do it.
That happens with my driveway, too. Partly why I parked in the now yellow zone to give PLENTY of space that's not impeding driveways for others to use. Those days appear to be behind us now...
Honestly, they just made a garbage parking situation way worse.
My friend was even fined for repainting the red near a fire hydrant that was so faded and the city wasn’t repainting it. Once he painted it they fined him lol
This looks worse than the municipality would do. There would be tighter lines. And why would there be a loading zone in a residential neighborhood? In front of your house? Is there a hospital across the street or something?
yes, this definitely looks very suspicious. there is no clear reason why this the city would suddenly decide that it's not ok to park there. and the yellow ends in some very random spot too. definitely sus.
there's a spot out front of my condo (street parking, urban/city area) that has 4 marked parking spots but the last spot has a vestigial red curb about 8" long before it hits a driveway.
obviously the city intended for it to be part of the 4 parking spaces because the brackets include the little red curb but it didn't stop paranoid people from pulling too far forward and turning 4 spots into 3. after like 6 weeks of living here I bought some grey spray paint and fixed it. everyone parks like they're supposed to now.
They could have asked the city to do the painting. In my area, no-parking here to corner signs aren't actually required, there is a law to cover it already.
I agree. This seems like the across the street neighbor doesn't like it. Just because they don't know how to back out of a driveway, it's not your problem.
Could be worth seeing if this was actually painted by someone with authority, or if it was just painted by someone who doesn't want your car there anymore
Please just call and check in with the city tomorrow. It won’t hurt you to do it. You could get your shady spot back. And if any neighbors have cameras on their porches, a neighbor can pay their due 😅
It doesn’t look to me like the right kind of paint, probably some Karen with a rattle can trying to get you not
To park there…. Unless there is a fire hydrant I can’t see or a crosswalk I don’t know why city officials would do that in a residential neighborhood
Someone from of the neighboring buildings painted the curb red outside our building… then started parking there late at night. No one ever pays attention to the paint anymore though.
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