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This sounds bad but it's one of those laws that prevents trouble. (As an aside, I once signed a lease in San Francisco that was eleven pages thick, small print

This sounds bad but it's one of those laws that prevents trouble. (As an aside, I once signed a lease in San Francisco that was eleven pages thick, small print, and for each clause you could easily imagine the lawsuit that led to its inclusion in the lease terms.) I have a neighbor who has a cousin who does this. He gets old POS cars and then tries to get them running. It's not a bad hobby, but he does it in the street, and in other people's garage spots (the houses here have a small shared parking lot.) This is specifically called out as no-no in the lease. So when this dumbass tries to fix a car in my parking spot, I can call property management, and they can go talk to the guy and get him to understand that he has to move his POS lemon car right now or there's going to be a tow truck there in about twenty minutes. That's why laws like this exist: one dumbass ruining things for everybody.

smbullet 4y ago
You described exactly why this law isn't necessary. Property rights already exist and can be enforced without infringing on another's.
- carapace 4y ago
  I think you're raising a good point. FWIW, I don't think working on your car should be an actual crime. That's messed up. I see this (the Sac law) as a sort of county-wide HOA rule. Sacramento is the seat of the state government, I bet there's some pressure to keep it looking nice, eh? Presumably folks voted for this law, yeah? As I grow older I find my attitude towards HOA-type rules is changing. When I was young I could put up with a lot of chaos around me, but now that I'm pushing fifty I feel like the advantages of the stricter rules are becoming more obvious and the disadvantages less onerous.
cobertos 4y ago
I don't think that is comparable. It's very different to do something in someone else's spot than in a spot you own and in a way that doesn't impact other people.
akerl_ 4y ago
The rule in your case is narrowly defined: the shared parking spaces are allocated to residents, and the rule makes sure that one person doesn't intrude on another person's allocated space. The rule in the article is not: it would make it a crime for your neighborhood dumbass to use his own allocated space to repair his car.

smbullet 4y ago

You described exactly why this law isn't necessary. Property rights already exist and can be enforced without infringing on another's.

carapace 4y ago
I think you're raising a good point. FWIW, I don't think working on your car should be an actual crime. That's messed up. I see this (the Sac law) as a sort of county-wide HOA rule. Sacramento is the seat of the state government, I bet there's some pressure to keep it looking nice, eh? Presumably folks voted for this law, yeah? As I grow older I find my attitude towards HOA-type rules is changing. When I was young I could put up with a lot of chaos around me, but now that I'm pushing fifty I feel like the advantages of the stricter rules are becoming more obvious and the disadvantages less onerous.

cobertos 4y ago

I don't think that is comparable. It's very different to do something in someone else's spot than in a spot you own and in a way that doesn't impact other people.

akerl_ 4y ago

The rule in your case is narrowly defined: the shared parking spaces are allocated to residents, and the rule makes sure that one person doesn't intrude on another person's allocated space. The rule in the article is not: it would make it a crime for your neighborhood dumbass to use his own allocated space to repair his car.