Spotted this sign left on the windshield of an VW bus that had been left parked in one spot too long, apparently, for the taste of some neighbors.
If you’ve just got to leave an anonymous note on someone’s windshield, thank you for making it a work of art.
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Four words: Citywide Restricted Parking Zones.
Rad! I love the creativity. If I got that on my car, I wouldn’t be mad – I would laugh and move my car.
hey!
where’s the Peace Vans love? Local wallingford resident, I, own a VW bus/van shop in SODO….tow that shit down to SODO and we’ll get it running again..
🙂
Harley
http://www.peacevans.com
I vote with Doug.
How ’bout this:
When you register your car in Seattle, you are assigned a parking space, as near your house as possible.
Anywhere else in the city, you have to park in a lot or garage (as do unregistered cars).
This way:
You still have your car for big trips to the grocery, or to go out of the city.
You have your precious parking space in front of your own house.
You can get around the city without worrying about parking by walking, biking, taking the bus or some combination. Good for you and the environment, connects you more to your community.
It’s win/win/win!
No real need for citywide RPZ, all we have to do is enforce the law already on the books: Max 72 hours parking in the same spot. Report violations to SPD Parking enforcement. See http://www.seattle.gov/police/parking/default.htm for info.
That van is now parked just around the corner–again. If history’s any indication, it’ll sit there again for another month or so, unused because the owner actually drives another vehicle, in front of the house he shares with his elderly landlord, forcing her to carry groceries from the only parking space she can find, often a block away. This has gone on for well over a year, all the while promising her he’s going to get rid of it.
Maybe the creator of that cute reminder would like to print out a bunch of them!
I second xtina48’s comments. Those converted school and Greyhound buses and other “campers” down on Northlake way have been a problem for YEARS! well known by but NO enforcement by SPD at all. Now one is parked in the Chahully studio/city park lot. I guess you get a real break if you wan’t to live the alternative life style in Seattle. It’s posted NO Parking between 2-5AM. The campers spray paint them out and leave fuel cans/propane tanks,lawn mowers and garbage around and under their “camps. SAFE? I don’t think so. Sad to see the Burke trail area and the great views of our city trashed so
Nisida
nisida–
If you read xtina48’s comment, you would see that the van’s owner lives in the neighborhood (in a building). The problem seem to be that the van owner parked his vehicle in that prize spot in front of his home, as we all fervently hope to do, but deprived his landlady of the spot. Which may not be nice, and has violated the 72 hour law–but has nothing to do with homeless people in campers.
The 72 hour rule would be a joke, if rarely enforced laws were funny – but they aren’t. A rarely enforced law against something everyone does, is too often a way to selectively harass someone for real reasons that aren’t legally sanctioned. If the city started rigorously enforcing that rule, it would be off the books in weeks. It remains because it can be used against undesirables – so that followup about the bus people was really fairly pertinent.
It breaks my heart to hear of the elderly landlady having to haul her groceries home from a block away because of her tenant. Perhaps she doesn’t know about the 72-hour law.
Is there any way of helping/informing her of that law? Has anyone printed out a copy of the law and put in on the van? In the mailbox of the lady’s house? Talking with her or the miscreant?
Cars in Wallingford routinely get the 72 hour tow treatment. Call it in, get it towed.