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US State Denies Appeal Of Woman Fined $100K For Parking In Her Own Driveway - SlashGear (www.slashgear.com)
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[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 days ago (4 children)

That's shitty. In my town we aren't allowed to park on the "yard" like in that town but here all she would have had to do is put a strip of gravel where the tire ran over and it's legal.

But if it's a four car driveway and they have four cars why don't the cars fit?

[–] Sybilvane@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Because American cars get more massive each year.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, I wonder about this. I have a similar situation with a “2” car driveway where I must park within a foot to clear the sidewalk. It’s inconvenient since sometimes you need to rearrange cars and you can’t be at all sloppy with parking.

I might have to park one car on the grass if I didn’t want to be inconvenienced by rearranging cars, if I couldn’t park closely, or if I had larger vehicles.

[–] protist@mander.xyz -4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

They don't get wider. They have to fit in the same lanes that were there 30 years ago. They've only gotten longer and taller

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

I've had some people complain about not being able to easily park a large car which made me want to ask why they are driving such a high-difficulty car if their driving skill is low.

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

They get wider, on average, up to the limits of the roadways. It's likely that they would've been fine if they had compact cars, or the typical cars of 20 years ago.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I can guarantee you an HoA that fines slightly parking in the grass is gonna have some rule about not using gravel on your front lawn

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

I'm certain they make them get signoff from neighbors, do an architectural application, and have it reviewed.

The minimum they're likely to be able to get away with is repaving in whole or part and about 6 months to get the authorization.

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

The fines here are from the city

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

it's becoming damn near impossible to buy reasonably sized cars here anymore