That'll show em - stick it to the man!

Background:
I live in a neighborhood with an HOA. It's an affluent neighborhood with all homes probably in the 3,000 - 4,000 sq ft range and most with 3-car garages.

Part of the CC&Rs is no street parking - which I am a fan of. It's rarely enforced unless people complain, and our neighborhood also backs up to a middle school (my house & street specifically).

When I bought this house people used to pull into my driveway to drop their kids off or pick them up. Or park in my driveway to cut through my yard to the sports fields - not kidding. I moved my fences up & installed a driveway gate & got nasty notes left on my door for blocking access to the school for like 6 months.

Last year, due to a push by our neighborhood, to stop all the parents from lining our streets & blocking the entrances to neighborhood when dropping off & picking up their kids, the Town installed no parking signs along all our streets with specific times - goes for home owners too.

Yesterday was the first day of school and of course a thousand cars filled our neighborhood. Police drove through and gave warnings. Today they started writing tickets.

A neighbor whose house is across from mine always parks his X3 on the street & walks across his yard to his door. I don't get it, he's got a large garage & driveway.


Today a ticket was placed on his X3 along with 5 other vehicles parked on my street & I'm sure vehicles parked on the other streets.

Here's where it gets funny. About an hour after the X3 was ticketed, he comes pulling out of his driveway in his Tesla & sees the ticket. As he stops his Tesla in the middle of the street, the Cop happens to pull around the corner. He stops the Cop and proceeds to argue with him for about 15 min. Lots of shouting, arms swinging around, pointing down the street, etc.

Cop drives off & the neighbor swings around and parks his Tesla on the street behind the X3, stomps across his yard, pulls his Escalade ESV out of the garage and parks it on the street behind the Tesla, and proceeds to wave his arms at the cop driving away.

I mean if that doesn't show em, I don't what will. He's left all 3 parked on the street since the ticket, so we'll see if he ends up moving them or getting more tickets.

TX is the only state I've lived in (6 different states) where people park in the street & not their driveways or garages. I honestly don't understand it, and nobody has ever given a good explanation as to why.

Anyway, that entertainment today provided a nice break from working on my computer all day.

I have lived in Michigan, Indiana, Washington state and New Jersey: In all of those states I have seen multiple unable to park their cars in the garage due to using the garage for storage (instead of car parking). As to the not parking in the driveway....yeah, that is much more odd. Unless the driveway is so narrow and short that it "double parks" a car that is left in the garage (Escalade in this story)?

Egad, why would you want to park in the street if you had other options? On the very rare occasion when I have to park in the street, and I live on a street that ends in a cul-de-sac, I fear for my car the whole time. Just waiting for some garbage truck or kid on a bike to ding it.

My "No Parking" story:

I was working for a company doing a short term job in the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston. As I was getting to the job site one day, there was a delivery truck trying to back through an overhead door into a building. The door was just a bit bigger than the truck, so the driver was having a hard time. But he was blocking the street while trying to back in. I left my engine running and flipped on my 4-way flashers, then got out to help him back in. I left my door open, too. As I was guiding him through the door, a meter maid came up to my car and started writing me a ticket for parking in a no parking zone. I was like, WTF? I ran over and tried to tell her that I was stopped there because the guy in the truck needed help backing into the building. She said it was too late for her to undo the ticket and that I'd have to fight it in court. Then she walked away. It was a $40 ticket, so I just paid it rather than lose a day's pay going to court. I guess a quota is a quota to some people.

I'm in Ohio and it's the same here. We've have parking issues in our neighborhood. Lived in our neighborhood about 30 years now and it seems to get worse every year. Most of the offenders are entitled assholes that don't give a shit about anyone else. No common sense either.

Our street unfortunately is a cut through and always a bit of traffic. We have a number of curves in the street one of which is a couple of houses down. It's better than a 90° turn and two particular families throw parties all the time and people park in the curve blocking one lane of travel. Always a stand off or near miss if you are traveling on the street in this curve. City did put up some no parking anytime signs in sections of our street except this particular curve.

One of the families mentioned above has a family member that lives the next street over and parks his F**king boat (about a 24 footer) in the street and a 10-12ft utility trailer in the front yard

Neighborhood used to be nice, 2500-3000 ft homes in the $300,000-400,000 figure (4000.00-5000.00 year in property taxes)

Yeah, and a lot of them park in their driveways because their garages are full of junk and most have two, three even four cars parked in the driveway.

Nobody cares anymore except for themselves and if you say anything you're the bad guy.

I live in a new-construction housing development with homes that have 2- and 3-car garages. But what drives me crazy is the dimensions of these garages. In order to park two cars in one of the "2-car garages" you would have to not have anything else in the garage. The width of my 2-car garage is 22 feet. Uniquely, my house also has an RV garage, so my wife's car lives there.

When I designed my own 3-car garage it was 28 feet wide for 2 vehicles and then 16 feet wide for the other space.

The excuse that many of my neighbors use is "we have multiple drivers & don't want to have to move cars around".

I don't care. Growing up I constantly had to move cars around in our driveway or garage. And during the summers I'm home all day & see none of their cars move.

The typical using the garage for junk storage, or their "man cave". You have a 4,000 sq ft house with a gameroom & theater inside & you need to use your garage for a "man cave". GTFOH.

Re: the neighbor in the OP, his Escalade is in the garage, the Tesla is in the driveway & he keeps the X3 on the street. All 3 are currently still parked in the street. His X3 is also almost always parked right at the corner of his street & mine (T-intersection in front of his house) which blocks the view of cars at that stop sign.

30 yards down (in front of my house) is a 90-degree curve that people always cut.
So there are almost daily near misses of cars cutting that curve and cars turning onto the street around his X3. Or a lot of times kids riding their bikes or scooters.

That's my biggest concern with the cars parked on the street. A couple months ago my son was on his way to take his SAT and two dogs ran out from between cars parked on the street (another issue in my neighborhood). He ended up hitting and killing one of the dogs.

Then he had to find the dog owner who, thankfully, let my son know it wasn't his fault. But what if that was a kid. Needless to say, my son bombed the SAT (big dog lover) and we had to pay for him to take it again.