This neighbor complaint is a new one on me.

[tlombard]

Clevername, I'm with you. HOAs are nothing but a bunch of nosy people who can't mind their own business or accept the fact that what they want is not what everyone else should want.

I have friends who couldn't put up a fence in their back yard so they had to keep their dogs on a chain when they let them out. Apparently the other nut jobs in the neighborhood felt that fences were ugly and would ruin their property values. Yeah, dogs on a long cable sure looks a lot nicer than a professionally installed fence. Morons. Of course that also meant that they couldn't put in a pool when they wanted to because no fence means a pool is definitely out of the question. Now that they have a little girl and another on the way, they are much happier in their new house where they still have a HOA but they are at least reasonable.

Oh, worst part... the president of the HOA and a couple of other people have fences but were 'grandfathered in' because they put them up before they decided no more fences.

[Fat_Bulldog]

What do the neighbors look like?

[tlombard]

[haltz]

I can't imagine caring if someone parked on the side of the street in my neighborhood. It's like people who come in and throw a fit that they aren't sitting at a certain table. How awesome is your life that this is a big deal? I mean really.

However, I live off of McCausland at 40, which is a pretty busy residential stretch of road, and it drives me crazy when people park on the side of the street. It's legal, but it takes out one lane and causes traffic or accidents constantly. I assume it's people who don't want to walk another 40 yards to park on one of the side streets, so they just leave their [expletive] in traffic.

[Michael]

In my old neighborhood we had a neighbor who parked their boat on the street year around. It was a real eyesore.

[Arthur Dent]

What exactly is the problem with neighborhood street parking, anyway? Is this one of those things where people don't have enough real problems, so they to invent new things to worry about?

That said, there are a couple streets in my neighborhood with no parking signs on one side as the roads are too narrow to allow two way traffic with parking on both. Especially going around bends, parked cars are kind of a pain. Nonetheless a lot of people use the no parking zones as their normal spot as the rule appears to be totally unenforced. I've considered leaving passive aggressive notes, but I guess I don't really care enough.

[Swirls]

Up here in the Arctic there's actually a city ordinance effective from 11/1 through 5/1 where it's illegal to park on the street at night, as they interfere with the snow plows while they're running. During the day it's okay (even though the plows also run during the day), but after like 10pm you'll get a ticket. During the summer of course you can park on them without a problem.

And I echo haltz's gripe about cars parking on the side of the street where, despite being perfectly legal, it completely eliminates a possible lane of traffic. We have some real douchegoblins ones on the road who will be cruising in that lane, despite it only being a 30 mph speed limit in town, realize there's a car parked directly in front of them, and then have to swerve over at the last second into the other lane to pass by the parked car, then swerve back over into their first lane until they come up to another parked car and have to repeat their maneuvering over again. It really sucks when you're the guy who about gets sideswiped by the jackass who can't drive because he/she is not paying attention.

[Fat Strat]

What exactly is the problem with neighborhood street parking, anyway? Is this one of those things where people don't have enough real problems, so they to invent new things to worry about?

Property values. It's always about property values for Homeowner's Associations.

[cardsfansince82]

I can't imagine caring if someone parked on the side of the street in my neighborhood. It's like people who come in and throw a fit that they aren't sitting at a certain table. How awesome is your life that this is a big deal? I mean really.

However, I live off of McCausland at 40, which is a pretty busy residential stretch of road, and it drives me crazy when people park on the side of the street. It's legal, but it takes out one lane and causes traffic or accidents constantly. I assume it's people who don't want to walk another 40 yards to park on one of the side streets, so they just leave their [expletive] in traffic.

Some of the residential areas in STL are scary as hell. Cars lining both sides on a road that isn't that wide to begin with and traffic flying both ways. I always feel like I'm about to run somebody over.

I park on the street but no one cares because there's plenty of room to get by.

[AdmiralKird]

In Springfield a long time ago there was a company that came by and planted Gumball trees all over town because they were cheap, and they would make everything more green. But their such a nuisance to maintain. My dad has wanted to cut ours down for years and replant a much nicer tree but the neighborhood won't allow it. Twenty-five years living there and we're not allowed to do what we want on our own property.