Maybe it depends on the width of the street? When you have one car parked on the street, it's no problem going around it. I've driven in some neighborhoods where they're parked on both sides of the street and two way traffic does not work. It's not a pretty sight. I wonder how a firetruck would get through sometimes.

That said, HOA's can suck the oxygen out of the room.

HOAs are probably a lot like Timeshares....

They might be fine for some folks.... just not for me.

If you ever park your RV on the street, then you get it tow but if you are homeless, with a rabid dog, a bunch of disgusting trash along with the mattress, tent and are strung out on drugs or alcohol, then you get a free pass. I say burn all the siht to the ground. Now that's only part of LA. In some areas, park your car there for 5-10 over the time limit or without a permit, get ready to get tickets. Permit requirement is to eliminate having parking taken away from residents.

Claremont

You could always call the PD for special situations, prepping for a trip or guests staying over. You just had to call the PD and let them know.

I didn't like the tickets I received as a teenager for forgetting to put my car in the driveway, as an adult I like the rule.

My neighborhood streets are plenty wide.... tho' not many park on the street, there's room for cars on both sides while not impeding traffic.

I think back to when I had my bass boat .... didn't keep it at my house for many of the 25+ years, but if I were going fishing at dawn, I'd have the boat hooked up, parked both on the street and ready to pull out at 4 am.

All guests must leave by 10 pm if parked on the street? Gimme a freakin break .... utter stoopidity that SM is becoming engaged with imo.

I look forward to lots of similar threads fwiw ;)

I can't even imagine owning a home somewhere with rules about how many and where I park my vehicles. I grew up in a rural area and I live in one now. Shoot guns, ride dirt bikes, atvs, snowmobiles, airplanes, park inside or outside, have campfires, fish in pond etc..... I don't know how you guys do it living in urban settings.

City people are weird… that is all.

A better rule would make it illegal to post anything about HOA's on PPOT 24/7.

I lived across the street from that guy in Hawaii. On weekends he basically ran a Jeep repair/upgrade shop from his garage. Holiday weekends were the worst. He would start the grinding/welding around 8am and it continued, along with the radio, until sun down for the entire 3 days.

Wouldn't have been so bad but w/o AC you must have the windows open to catch the cool ocean breeze.

I'm sure he was a nice enough guy but honestly, he gave not one concern for his neighbors and what he was putting them through.

No overnight parking sounds like a way to prevent people from having parties at night. If the cars don't fit in the driveway then it's too big a party to go past 10pm, I guess. I wouldn't mind that for my neighbors a couple houses down.

Then again, almost everyone on my street uses overnight parking for one reason or another, just not enough garage and driveway space, and the driveways are only one car wide (very sad). I'd be happy with an ordnance against long term parking in the street, but it hasn't really been a problem.

My new neighbor 2 doors down .... with the RV and expensive truck has had 2 NYEve parties with 5-6 cars parked in the street until 1-2 am .... 10 pm curfew ..... nah :D!

In college, the keg parties didn't start until 2 am ;)

My former longtime g/f always parked in the street when visiting, as do all guests staying overnight at my house too.

Hell .... I don't even have 5 cars, but the driveway is full :)

Just to clear up a couple of things.

Daytime street parking is not prohibited or restricted in any way.

Overnight parking is restricted, not necessarily prohibited.

A violation of the covenant only occurs if a vehicle is parked adjacent to a structure for 5 nights in a month. So that could be 5 nights in a row or once every 6 days.

So it's not meant to be a traffic control or security measure which is what's always had me confused, it seemed to serve no real purpose other than what I've just come to, to prevent people "storing" cars on the street because that doesn't look nice.

At my old sub 1,000 square foot bachelor pad starter house most of the houses in the neighborhood had converted the garage into living space. I was one of the rare houses with a garage, a small single car garage.

My neighbors had one single driveway, and they parked the multiple cars in front of their house, and in front of mine. My guest rarely could find a place to park, except in my driveway. I had asked them nicely to leave the spot in front of my house open for my friends to use when visiting me, but they never did.

One of my friends had a Cadillac project car, that he bought and was mostly going to be a parts car. It was tagged and ran, but not well. I had him bring it over, and parked it in front of my house one day when the neighbors were at work. Shortly after that I saw a rare event, the spot in front of their house was open, so I parked it there. Perfect.

The neighbors were not about to call the cops, as they had all their junky cars parked in the neighborhood. They finally asked if I knew anything about it. I said I was storing it for a buddy.

They asked me to move it, and I used their line they gave me when I asked them to move their car, it is a public street, and open parking, and convenient for me.

They finally agreed they would not park in front of my house except for short term and not all night. I took the project car back to my buddy.

It took that to get them to understand parking on the street. They finally choked up the money to have their driveway widened to two cars wide and solved their problem, and my problem.

Our HOA has the same rule, but it is unenforceable because the streets are public.

You and I both.

I was sorta wondering about this aspect too...

We are unincorporated.

We are our government.

The community is run by a Fresh Water Improvement District which is a board made up of elected residents. It runs and manages all municipal functions / infrastructure. They are separate from but work in tandem with the HAO. Think of it as The House, The Senate, and our management company is Executive.

Back in the day we had the neighboring towns POPO practicing aggressive revenue generation in the community.

Stupid stuff like 1 mph over a posted limit or not coming to a full stop at stop signs even if you did. They’d say “it didn’t look like a full stop” which led to “The Lantana Bounce”. To avoid tickets you had to stop in a way that caused obvious nose dive and settling after.

One day someone figured out that none of the tickets were enforceable, the towns that issued them had no legal way to enforce the payment or collection of fines but they could accept “donations”.

Residents started tearing up tickets on the spot suggesting the cops go f themselves.

Once “donations” dropped the cops just stopped showing up because it was no longer profitable.

Well now that all traffic signage was effectively nothing more than “a recommendation” the place turned into the Indy 500.

To get things back under control we had to cede enforcement powers to the County Sheriff which required us getting signatures from 50% + of the residents which meant going door to door for months until we had enough.

So long story short, while the roads / streets are technically public they are public roads owned by our effectively private government.

It’s a weird structure anywhere else but not all that uncommon here.

Takes a while to wrap your head around it.

On the flip side there is an extensive condo neighborhood with parking on both sides of the street. Plus small hills. Only room for one car at a time to get through. People at the back have to drive 1/4mi to get to the main drag. Drove through there during the winter on icy pavement and said 'nope'.