Is it illegal to park on your own lawn?
#17
Lexus Champion
Not necessarily true. Municipalities have the ability to set their own standards as to what is and isn't acceptable on properties within their jurisdiction. Becomes even worse in architecturally controlled neighbourhoods that are controlled by a HOA or condo boards.
#18
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San Jose (largest city in Silicon Valley with a population of over 1 million people) has this ordinance in place:
17.72.600 Parking on Unpaved Surfaces Prohibited
A. No person shall keep, store or park any trailer, Boat or Motor Vehicle on any portion of a front yard or corner lot side yard facing a street of a property designed or used as a residence, except on an area that is paved.
17.72.600 Parking on Unpaved Surfaces Prohibited
A. No person shall keep, store or park any trailer, Boat or Motor Vehicle on any portion of a front yard or corner lot side yard facing a street of a property designed or used as a residence, except on an area that is paved.
#19
Lexus Champion
The people on our street didn't complain, they admitted they lived "blocks" away. However, our house is located pretty close to the park and its a corner house, which makes it all the more visible. No one on our street has complained, and believe me, if they weren't okay with it they would've been knocking the night the Avalon set rubber on the lawn.
good luck and let us know how it turns out.
#21
I got a ticket in Rosemead (Southern California) for parking on the lawn. Meh, it was a ****ty neighborhood, people couldn't park, no permit required, and I don't believe there were no parking hours either since the street never saw a street sweeper. That being said, a parking enforcement guy opened the gate, and issued me the ticket which cost me $50.
#22
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My brothers HOA rule says you can't park a car on your own lawn sighting it brings down the home value or something like that. They got a notice when my dad parked his Lexus on my brothers lawn when he was loading things up for a couple of hours. My brother was going to park his NSX on the front lawn and see if they claimed it was unsightly and brought down the neighborhood value. In the mean time he has two old broken down cars sitting in his driveway and that is perfectly fine since it's not on the lawn 2 feet away. Sometimes I wonder, what is worse? A Lexus or NSX on the lawn for a couple of hours or two old broken down cars in the driveway.
PS. I guess we are ghetto because we grew up in the country. You could park cars, broken cars, tractors, whatever on your own yard. I guess I we just don't fit in with the rich city life. Us poor country folk don't measure up.
PS. I guess we are ghetto because we grew up in the country. You could park cars, broken cars, tractors, whatever on your own yard. I guess I we just don't fit in with the rich city life. Us poor country folk don't measure up.
#23
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I don't live at a country club either, but I do live 1/2 mile above a country club. Later I will share the story of somebody trying to park on the golf course/green and the police response.
More on topic, above I posted related San Jose ordinance. (post#18)
I don't live at a country club either, but I do live 1/2 mile above a country club. Later I will share the story of somebody trying to park on the golf course/green and the police response.
More on topic, above I posted related San Jose ordinance. (post#18)
Last edited by IS-SV; 02-08-11 at 10:02 PM.
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hey OP, I live in SJ too and go to school there. You dont have to wait til the pge to come to your mail. just go online and log in to your pge account and add the name and then print the page =)
#25
You can change your address on both your license/registration online and print it out from there. Ask the people that register the permit if the printed out forms from the DMV Website is sufficient (it should be IMO).
You can do this at a later time too, it does not cost anything nor do you have to go to the DMV.
You can do this at a later time too, it does not cost anything nor do you have to go to the DMV.
#26
i think most residential neighbourhoods in the bay area have similar laws.
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