Irvine: TOO MANY stuck up neighbors!!!

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Wow - I didn't realize that in Irvine you HAD to use your garage - where I grew up a bit north of here NOBODY uses their garage for cars - only storage - since there isn't any storage in CA houses. Just one more reason I won't be paying outrageous prices to live in houses where I don't even have a place to put my bicycle. crazy.
 
Well, if no one used their garages, there wouldn't be enough street parking in most of the complexes. Perhaps the homes aren't as densely packed up north as they are here.





I haven't seen a garage that can't fit both a bike and a car at the same time. The smallest garages in Irvine that I know of are in the TIC apartments and in the old 1960s condos in University park and they still have enough room for a few bikes and a car.
 
<p>In L.A. we have the 72 hour rule as well. D.O.T. will chalk your tires and come back to check to see if it's still there 3 days later, if so...TOWED, not just ticketed. So consider yourself lucky ! (check your tires for chalk buylow)</p>

<p>Eva, this wouldn't be a police report, so no way to allege "false police report"...it would just be a phone call from a citizen. Police report requires a signature from complainant.</p>

<p>Optimus. Next time you're faced with an emergency situation, I trust you won't call IPD...I mean, considering that they suck so bad. </p>
 
Trooper...I don't put myself in situations to call the IPD.





I hope I'm in another jurisdiction if I had to call any law enforcement. IPD sucks!
 
<p>I guess my question to some of us will be: If one have a garage, why not park in there? If the garage is full, why not park on their own drive way if have one? Just because one doesn't want to park his/her car in their own garage, or own drive way, or in front of own house, why the neighbours have to look at your car in front of their house when looking out from their front door or front windows???? </p>

<p>I will call IPD if my neighbours park in front of my house all the time while not using their drive way or garage. There is nothing stuck up about this. Plus, most of us signed an agreement not to park our cars on the street for more than 72 hours before escrow closing. Since we agreed to it, so WFT is the problem????????</p>
 
Trooper....so the parking police in LA actually patrol the neighborhoods too? Now I understand patrolling the major streets and garages but neighborhoods...come on!!!!





I swear the sun has done something to many of people's brains out here.
 
<p>irvine123,</p>

<p>umm, it's a car...parked on a street...wtf do you care if it's parked there or not? you don't own the street, nor do you own your neighbors house, nor is the car parked in your driveway...so again,wtf? </p>

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Thank god IPD doesn't patrol my neighborhood otherwise they would have get another officer in with another stack of tickets. I don't understand the communist theory that you can't park on the street. I've never even thought of it being a problem unless there isn't any other parking available. The 72 hours I can understand. I had a car parked in front of my house with the sunroof open and it rained. Two days later it still hadn't moved. Called the Sheriff and they came by and gave them a ticket. That is reasonable but parking in the street overnight when there is still available parking? Lighten up. There are more important things in life to concern your life with.
 
<p>Mino, yup....D.O.T. trolls the neighborhoods. Parking is scarce in L.A. everywhere.... I guess it's their way of trying to manage it. </p>

<p><em>"Trooper...I don't put myself in situations to call the IPD".</em></p>

<p>No one plans on being a victim optimus. Some things you just can't control completely.</p>
 
<p>Ok, I'll come out of the closet as a Person Against Unnecessary Street Parking.</p>

<p>See, where I live the streets are narrow. When people are parked on both sides of the street, especially with their vans and SUVs, I have hard time seeing down the street when I approach on the perpendicular. It just a matter of time before I get T-boned. And heaven forbid someone orders pizza - the delivery folk have to double park making it impossible for two cars to get through at the same time.</p>

<p>The street are pretty wide where my parents live (built circa late '60s). Visibility is less an issue there, but if there are cars parked bumper to bumper up and down the street, it looks pretty messy and gives the place a very dense/claustrophobic feel. You expect parking like this in a city, but not in the (allegedly less dense) 'burbs.</p>

<p>Primarily, though, my gripe is visibility when driving.</p>
 
That is a valid gripe. Luckily the streets here are pretty wide and it only gets bumper to bumper when there is a big party. Even then the neighbors who warn us get to use our driveway and others for additional parking just for being curtious. But on an everyday basis there are always cars parked on the street but it has never really been an issue.
 
<p>I can see Irvine123 frustration. Most of the newer neighborhoods have no front yard as buffer. The sidewalk is within feet of one's front door or windows. So to look out one's window(s) and see a monster truck. Well, you got the idea. Luckily for me my place is elevated from street level. </p>

<p>But then again. Living in high density neighborhoods, parking will always be an issue. </p>

<p>By the way, I have this one neighbor. He keeps letting his german sheperd do "doo-doo" at the front sidewalk. Now, I don't mind little "doo-doo's" from a chiwawa. But a german sheperd. Ughh.....</p>
 
<p><a href="http://www.municode.com/resources/gateway.asp?pid=10941&sid=5">Irvine Muni Code:</a></p>

<p>Sec. 4-5-710. Excreta nuisance prohibited. </p>



It shall be unlawful for the owner or person having charge, custody or control of any animal to permit, either willfully or through failure to exercise due care or control, any such animal to commit any nuisance by leaving its excreta, and to allow such nuisance to therefore remain on any public sidewalk, public park or any other public property or on any improved private property other than that of the owner or person who has custody or control of such animal.
 
<p>Ok, one last complaint. How much is a car wash these day?....$12?....$15?....I think it's only $8 at the gas station.</p>

<p>Now, I have a neighbor that washes his car and would block our garage alittle. Enough where I would have to be extra careful backing out. Again, can't he afford to pay a freaking car wash that he has to wash at home? Especially when he knows it would hinder his neighbor's garage. </p>

<p>Ok that's all the complaints I have </p>
 
<p>The police are doing their job - if the law is don't park then there is no reason to complain about the police - complain about the people who made the rule. I believe we should all be grateful that we live in a country where we have police, firefighters, paramedics, etc., etc. I know I am.....</p>

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