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This literally happened to my neighbour when a film crew came into our neighbourhood. My neighbour was out of town, off vacationing with their family. They had

This literally happened to my neighbour when a film crew came into our neighbourhood. My neighbour was out of town, off vacationing with their family. They had a large family with several kids, so they had a good 2 or 3 cars parked around the front of their home. The film crew had mandated that all cars needed to be cleared from the set. So absolutely no cars on the street. They went around asking people to move all their cars down to the school parking lot a couple blocks away. My neighbours weren't home to hear this or even be notified. The set director (I think that must be who they were cause they yelled a lot at everyone) was cursing at my neighbour's home, waving hands angrily, and called a tow truck to move all of the neighbour's cars. A person came to ask if we knew where they were or had their contact number. We told them they were out of town. They did not move the cars back. School re-opened after the long weekend, neighbour got fined for parking tickets down at the school. Came back home to missing vehicles, called the cops, freaked out, eventually found their cars down at the school, had to pay over $500 in parking fines, one of their cars had even been towed down to the impound lot for improper parking on a private space. It was a gigantic mess. Doubt the film crew cares, they were long gone and probably not even in the country by the time my neighbour was capable of filing a grievance with them.

JackFr 4y ago
In NY the film crews out up emergency no parking signs 2-3 days in advance which 1) are issued by the police; 2) describe the time and date of the shooting and name of the production; 3) list the name of a production assistant in charge and a cell phone number. Seems like a pretty good compromise.
- etskinner 4y ago
  How does that fix the issue where someone is on a week-long vacation? Seems like a letter a few weeks in advance is they least they could do.
  - jjulius 4y ago
    That is also commonplace.
  - jffry 4y ago
    In many large cities, there's shorter-than-a-week minimum notices for street closures. For example in DC, no-parking permits have to be posted at least 72 hours in advance. If you are going out of town for longer than that amount of time, you either need to find somewhere you can pay to park your car, or you need to get a neighbor or friend to check in on it periodically and move it if there's a sign. This responsibility is the only cost of using public space to store your car, aside from a nominal annual vehicle registration fee. Seems fair to me.
    - mynameisvlad 4y ago
      Most big cities have the shorter notice periods because they also generally have maximum parking time limits. In Seattle, for instance, you have to move your car every 72 hours if you're parked on the street. Is it enforced? No. But technically, it's there.
      - humanistbot 4y ago
        > Is it enforced? No. But technically, it's there. In California we have the same law, and it is certainly enforced, usually at the behest of nosy neighbors who have nothing else to do.
        mynameisvlad 4y ago
        It's probably the same here -- it's enforced extremely selectively and only because they're tired of getting the complaint for the dozenth time. To verify, they usually have to mark your tires to check you haven't moved the car in the 72 hours (you could've just parked in the same place), so it usually requires two outcalls to even issue a ticket. That's a lot of work when you're anywhere outside of the downtown core where that initial call could be done as part of other work.
      - JackFr 4y ago
        > Is it enforced? No. But technically, it's there. Very much enforced in NYC - where they do around $600 million a year in parking tickets.
  - jenny91 4y ago
    In NYC you generally have to move your car twice a week due to street cleaning. No way you could park for weeks without issue.

JackFr 4y ago

In NY the film crews out up emergency no parking signs 2-3 days in advance which 1) are issued by the police; 2) describe the time and date of the shooting and name of the production; 3) list the name of a production assistant in charge and a cell phone number. Seems like a pretty good compromise.

etskinner 4y ago
How does that fix the issue where someone is on a week-long vacation? Seems like a letter a few weeks in advance is they least they could do.
- jjulius 4y ago
  That is also commonplace.
- jffry 4y ago
  In many large cities, there's shorter-than-a-week minimum notices for street closures. For example in DC, no-parking permits have to be posted at least 72 hours in advance. If you are going out of town for longer than that amount of time, you either need to find somewhere you can pay to park your car, or you need to get a neighbor or friend to check in on it periodically and move it if there's a sign. This responsibility is the only cost of using public space to store your car, aside from a nominal annual vehicle registration fee. Seems fair to me.
  - mynameisvlad 4y ago
    Most big cities have the shorter notice periods because they also generally have maximum parking time limits. In Seattle, for instance, you have to move your car every 72 hours if you're parked on the street. Is it enforced? No. But technically, it's there.
    - humanistbot 4y ago
      > Is it enforced? No. But technically, it's there. In California we have the same law, and it is certainly enforced, usually at the behest of nosy neighbors who have nothing else to do.
      - mynameisvlad 4y ago
        It's probably the same here -- it's enforced extremely selectively and only because they're tired of getting the complaint for the dozenth time. To verify, they usually have to mark your tires to check you haven't moved the car in the 72 hours (you could've just parked in the same place), so it usually requires two outcalls to even issue a ticket. That's a lot of work when you're anywhere outside of the downtown core where that initial call could be done as part of other work.
    - JackFr 4y ago
      > Is it enforced? No. But technically, it's there. Very much enforced in NYC - where they do around $600 million a year in parking tickets.
- jenny91 4y ago
  In NYC you generally have to move your car twice a week due to street cleaning. No way you could park for weeks without issue.