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Fun story:
A family friend had a small bayside beach bungalow on the Balboa peninsula near The Wedge. It was probably built in 1950 and was still an original 1 story with huge 3 story renovations being built all around them. Across the street is a public beach access to the bay side with a children's beach and small pier. During mornings and evenings they had an amazing view from their front picture window and could watch the boats coming and going but during peak hours the beach park attracted a lot of cars who parked in front of his house completely blocking their idyllic view.

He got to know the city workers while often out walking and saw them painting a red curb downtown one day. He casually ask them what paint they used that would hold up in the harsh beach environment and they showed him a can. He then went out and bought a can of this red paint and after dark one night went out, taped off his curb and painted it red to keep the flat landers from blocking his view. It worked like a charm and forever after the city workers maintained this red curb, repainting as necessary every few years. Idyllic view preserved!

He is gone now but I think the little beach bungalow is still an original one story with an amazing view of the bay from the living room window. Miracles do happen.

Another possible solution that some have use to keep vagrants away from their property: Change out all of the parkway sprinkler heads from 180* to 360* and make sure that parkway gets well irrigated 2x per day, every day, all year. He will get the message and move on.
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