new law for only 2 cars per driveway in minneapolis

[mdh157]

so I guess as long as you have a garage full of cars and only 2 in the driveway then you aren't in violation. Remember, from the progressive standpoint cars are killing the planet (espec old cars) so they are slowly being legislated out of existence.

 

[DocMcNeedy]

I'm grateful my nearest neighbor is 1/4 mile away and we do not see each other unless one stops by to see the other. My dogs and cars are not their concern. I don't know how you city folks do it.
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You're living the dream...dogs and cars are my passion...I'd rescue 10 more...But, I can't because of city ordinance states only 3 allowed...Also, I'd likely have a pole barn in the country full of Imperials and donor cars, parts, etc...In the city it's like you always have to keep things manicured and your beds made for the good of the community and property value, etc...My choice...So, I blend in.

 

[polara71]

If you look close you can see my 5

 

[300rag]

...So, I blend in.

I don't believe you

 

[300rag]

If you look close you can see my 5

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And here I was counting vehicles, not dogs

 

[polara71]

5 kids, 5 grand kids, 5 dogs, 5 cars

 

[JC68vert300]

I don't live with an HOA, but our town has so many parking rules past in the last 28 years that I can barely keep up. No overnight parking on the street. No trailers of any kind, open or closed. No vans with logos or of commercial use, if it has commercial plates it has to go to a special municipal lot. No tractor-trailers, to the same municipal lot. No RVs, campers, pop-ups,boats, jet-skies on the front or side, if it doesn't fit in your backyard, to the municipal lot it goes. And The genius leaders placed this municipal lot by the river downstream from a reservoir that is in a major flood plain and floods several times a year. No unregistered or uninspected cars unless it is in the garage. No restriction on the # of cars or dirty cars.....so far. But I probably overlooked something. Earlier I posted a snarky comment that maybe Minnepolis was now step below NJ, thought about all these rules and I guess I really can't scrape us off the bottom.

 

[polara71]

I don't live with an HOA, but our town has so many parking rules past in the last 28 years that I can barely keep up. No overnight parking on the street. No trailers of any kind, open or closed. No vans with logos or of commercial use, if it has commercial plates it has to go to a special municipal lot. No tractor-trailers, to the same municipal lot. No RVs, campers, pop-ups,boats, jet-skies on the front or side, if it doesn't fit in your backyard, to the municipal lot it goes. And The genius leaders placed this municipal lot by the river downstream from a reservoir that is in a major flood plain and floods several times a year. No unregistered or uninspected cars unless it is in the garage. No restriction on the # of cars or dirty cars.....so far. But I probably overlooked something. Earlier I posted a snarky comment that maybe Minnepolis was now step below NJ, thought about all these rules and I guess I really can't scrape us off the bottom.

No, you really can't. We are the armpit of the nation

 

[Fury440]

Elected wacko's using bi-laws to experiment with social engineering.
Why do you elect these people?
Why do you allow your rights to be butchered?

 

[MrMoparCHP]

This makes you want to get the ugliest beater I mean beater, rust eaten beat to heck but make sure it is legal by your local police and register it, insure it, and park it out front just to piss them off.


Alan

 

[saforwardlook]

No, you really can't. We are the armpit of the nation

Dang, and all these years, I thought that was what Detroit was labeled! At least that is what I called it when I lived there for 2 1/2 years.

 

[65 500]

We have too many liberals/socialists/progressives living...

I agree completely!

 

[65 500]

The neighbor he was certain complained died, no problems since.

Funny how that works.

 

[patrick66]

In my city, you can't park on grass or even gravel! Generally, it has to be asphalt, concrete, or brick. You can park on gravel, if your lot is larger than one acre. If you're zoned as Ag, you can do damn near what you want (like me!).

 

[cantflip]

This makes you want to get the ugliest beater I mean beater, rust eaten beat to heck but make sure it is legal by your local police and register it, insure it, and park it out front just to piss them off.


Alan

Done that already... It helps a little...

 

[cm23uoc]

Done that already... It helps a little...

This car's owner who actually is a Professor teaching car construction does this for a Sport for decades. Completely street legal and technically intact, had it towed as garbage etc. multiple times and deliberately went through court to have the town's decisions overruled and damages paid. A very well known Story in Germany at least.

 

[fc7_plumcrazy]

No overnight parking on the street. No trailers of any kind, open or closed. No vans with logos or of commercial use

no overnight parking on the street?
Not even for registerred/liscensed cars?

Sometimes cars park for weeks on the street in germany not being used.
All fine as long has it is liscensed and has inspection.

No vans with logos on your own property?
WTF?

There seem to be some real strange laws out there in the good old USA

Carsten

 

[polara71]

So much for freedom

 

[DocMcNeedy]

In my city, you can't park on grass or even gravel! Generally, it has to be asphalt, concrete, or brick. You can park on gravel, if your lot is larger than one acre. If you're zoned as Ag, you can do damn near what you want (like me!).

I go out of my way to park on grass to drive the neighbors nuts.

 

[Carmine]

no overnight parking on the street?
Not even for registerred/liscensed cars?

Sometimes cars park for weeks on the street in germany not being used.
All fine as long has it is liscensed and has inspection.

No vans with logos on your own property?
WTF?

There seem to be some real strange laws out there in the good old USA

Carsten

One thing to understand about the good ol' USA is that while citizens do have many individual freedoms; states, counties, cities and townships also have great autonomy to create their own laws and ordinance.

Densely populated areas necessarily have more law and ordinace. Individual homes plots (in older areas) might be as small as 30'x60'.

Sometimes there are conflicts between local law and Constitutional rights. For example, some cities used to have ordinances that limited political signs to X number of days before an election. That ordinance was struck down as a violation of free speech... Political speech being the most protected. However, my city (like many others) would prevent you from putting up a sign in your yard advertising your business. Commercial speech is the least protected.

As plots of land become further from urban centers, the ordinances lessen to the point they eventually disappear. (State and Federal laws are always in effect.) The price of the land typically decreases as well.

I can't imagination the situation is much different in Germany, or anywhere else in the free world.

Now remember what I said about the Constitution being greater than it all? The entitlement to Due Process requires citizens to be compensated if the government "takes" some value from their property. Driveways that accomodate more than two cars must have existed in Minneapolis before this ordinance was passed. Therefore the city must show a public need and compensate the property owners thousands of dollars each. Or they can drop the overly broad ordinance. But it must first be challenged in court.

Btw, my city also doesn't allow overnight parking on the street (with some permitted exceptions) and I love it. Keeps the junk of the street and makes the lazy folk avoid living here.