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Exactly, we paid for our house, the sidewalk in front of it, and the street beyond that sidewalk! And our enjoyment will be ruined by... seeing people on our st
by dkarl 2y ago
Exactly, we paid for our house, the sidewalk in front of it, and the street beyond that sidewalk! And our enjoyment will be ruined by... seeing people on our street who don't live here!
That's the part I don't understand at all, and I've had people try to explain it to me in person. The anger, anxiety, and affrontedness of seeing somebody parked at the curb in front of one's house... the neighborhood ruined... I can see it in their eyes and hear it in their voice, but can you explain it? For context, people frequently park on our street because of the proximity of a couple of commercial streets a few minutes' walk away, and we get completely parked up for events at a church down the block. The worst thing that has ever happened as a result is that our dogs have woken us up barking at someone retrieving their car. I blame that on our dogs, but I guess I could blame the people instead?
- cyberax 2y ago> Exactly, we paid for our house, the sidewalk in front of it, and the street beyond that sidewalk! And our enjoyment will be ruined by... seeing people on our street who don't live here! I actually did. When I bought a house, we had parking minimums around here. And I'm also legally responsible for maintaining the PUBLIC sidewalk in front of my house. Now the minimums are gone, and density went up. We have a couple of new slum boxes that are supposed to be "transit enabled", and of course most of people there have cars. Without parking. And so now the street parking is gone.
- cool_dude85 2y agoSo you bought a place with no parking spot, now there are a bunch of other people in a place without a parking spot, but you were here first?
- nayuki 2y ago> We have a couple of new slum boxes It's good to see how you honestly view apartment buildings: with condescension.
- cyberax 2y agoOh, absolutely. I grew up in one, after all. I'm fully fed up with all the urbanist nonsense because I _experienced_ it. There's nothing in urbanism but misery.
- dkarl 2y ago> now the street parking is gone By "gone," I think you mean "used."
- cyberax 2y agoPart of it is _gone_, as in "replaced by unused bike lanes". My local government _brags_ about the number of parking spaces eliminated in favor of bike lanes.
- vel0city 2y agoSometimes the street out front of my house will get crowded with parking. I don't mind a few cars here and there on the street, but it gets annoying when its completely slammed. It's not very comfortable driving down a street where there's only a few inches of clearance overall for a long stretch and I'm not even driving a giant truck. I wouldn't want to live on a street where the street parking is always crowded. Some cars parking some of the time is fine; having people storing stuff on the street or being overcrowded is annoying.