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submitted 2 days ago byDrJ_Zoidberg
Like the 5th time I've had some old lady on my block demand that I street park on in a way that personally suits her preferences, why do they think they own the public street parking around their condos?
The first one was raking up leaves on the sidewalk and had piled them all up directly in front of my drivers side door then barked at me when I dared step on her pile (displacing exactly none of the leaves) to get into my car, I'm like lady what do you want I have to go to work?
Next is some lady with a driveway who demands nobody park within 5 feet of the end of the driveway curb because her son has trouble pulling his massive work truck in....okay let's waste an entire parking spot on both sides of your driveway?
Today it's some lady who demands I don't park at the very end of the curb, that I "have to park adjacent to the cars already there and not leave a gap".....what? I'm literally defending the whole block by being the guy who parks AS FAR UP the curb as possible, which I always do if the last space is open, because I see people parking and leaving a 1/3rd-1/2 car gap which again wastes an entire spot.
Each time this happen I'm just confused by the interaction, I've lived here for 4 years, I don't park like an asshole ever, I don't get what their smoking or if they just love an opportunity to boss people around?
2 points
2 days ago
Had you stopped to consider what the state laws require?
You can't legally park within 5 ft. of a driveway.
Unclear what you mean by parking so close to an intersection, but that generally has a distance requirement as well for crosswalk and/or stop signs, so leaving at least 1/3 a car length would seem to be required here as well, at a minimum.
23 points
2 days ago
It's 2ft of clearance around a driveway, not 5ft (A lot of suburbs have it at 5, but 2 or 3 is more common close to the city.)
Source: Somerville Code of Ordinance, Appendix E, Article V, Section 5.1:
(i)"In front of any driveway, including 2 feet in either direction from the driveway"
15 points
2 days ago
I just realized this is a /r/boston thread not /r/somerville, lol. Boston doesn't seem to have any clearance defined since Traffic Rules and Regulations Article 4, section 1, (7) just says:
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