How to handle this: local municipal dicks.

bgkast wrote: I Vote move away from the nanny city

Pretty much all of Chicago suburbs are that way.

My new favorite word: unincorporated.

Reason # 6231 to live in Texas

That_Renault_Guy wrote:

Duke wrote:

Appleseed wrote: The big rift is that they allow exceptions. And the "forever" nature of the callback. If someone comes in from out of town and spends the night, are they screwed? If they said there is no parking on the streets for everyone, I think I'd be OK with that. Being singled out by a municipality while following their instructions seems unethical to me.

But you're NOT being singled out:

The ordinance wrote: In emergencies and for overnight visitors, please notify the Police Department, at (815)363-2200, prior to overnight parking so permission can be granted to avoid issuance of tickets.

It's not an EMERGENCY that you just don't feel like putting your car in the driveway. And you're not an overnight visitor in your own house. If you have an actual visitor, assuming they're not conveniently driving one of your cars... They are NOT "screwed". So they are not selectively enforcing the ordinance. They are just declining to keep extending you favors.

Agreed

Me too.

Like it or not, the police ARE following the local ordinances. You are not.

nepa03focus wrote: They can fine you for parking in your own lawn?! Wow lol I park in my lawn all the time

They do it here too.

Usually every city has a bylaw on the books about not letting your property look like ass.

It's vaguely worded and can apply to anyone.

Usually it takes a busybody in the neighbourhood to get it enforced.

Remember, if you don't think there is an shiny happy person in your neighbourhood, it's probably you.

just ONE more reason I say ... "THANK GOD I live in a rural area" ... 15ac of wooded mountain side .... neighbors 100' south and NOTHING north, west, or east except woods woods and more woods ... I'm far enough up above the road that you can't see any more than the roof of the house from the road ..... WOOOT

wbjones wrote: just ONE more reason I say ... "THANK GOD I live in a rural area"

This, I'm not on a mountainside, but sitting in the middle of nowhere.