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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • Call the fire dept and say youre concerned it might be blocking those exiting the building, (especially the handicapped) from clearing the area of a potential fire in a safe and orderly fashion.

    I did this once when my neighbors landscapers parked blocking in my front door, despite me catching them at stand asking them not to park on the yellow line, when I needed to get my mom to a post-op checkup (making that the only viable door as I had to carry hwr down the stairs, and the back is 2 flights compared to a half)

    Not only was the fire dept there in like 5 mins, they had a bunch of guys flip the truck over to roll it out from between cars on either side, they broke the windows to throw a tow strap through the cab, dragged it upside down out into a place the wrecker could get it, and pulled it upside down onto the flatbed.

    Then they helped me get my mom down the stairs as a bonus. Extra bonus was they landscapers tried to sue the homeowner for the loss of the truck over their refusal to provide offscreen parking (my street fills up despite the town’s requirement for adequate onstreet parking intended for workers like landscapers)

    They ended up dropping the neighbors house, which due to the publicity got them on every landscaper in town’s blacklist. The inability to get landscapers ended up making the house no longer atractive enougb for short term rentals, first replaced by a long term rental, and eventually they sold, and now there’s a real, working class family there!


  • My town requires a certain amount of onstreet parking be alotted based on number of houses on a road. Iirc it works out to about one car length per 3 houses. I live on a narrow one way road, (parking only on the right hand side, but houses on both sides- the road is too narrow so a driveway on the left becomes inaccessible with a car parked across it on the right) that has now hit its maximum on non parking areas, which has started to have an interesting effect; one house was demoed and rebuilt with a garage included. They were not allowed to have the driveway open onto our road, as that would necessitate a yellow line in front of it, and ended up having to spend ~$1M to buy access rights to connect through the neighbor on the other side’s property.

    There are currently 2 lots that could in theory be subdivided with new houses on them, that currently cannot be approved for building, because adding even one house would create the need for one new, impossible to eke out, on-street spot (even if they had a driveway, its about required parking for home service industries, guests, etc)