Anyone else know about this? I was informed by Sunnyvale PD today that you can get a parking ticket for overhanging your own driveway. I didn't ask whether or not it'd be fightable in court because he didn't seem like the kind of officer that'd say "Yeah, you can easily defeat us in court."

So anyone have any experience with this? I didn't get one, just some interesting info. I can see how you could get one because parking enforcement has no way to know that it's your car and your driveway, but it seems like it shouldn't be too hard to fight.

 

What do you mean "overhanging"???

My parents got a parking ticket because I used to park my car on the unpaved area of the front yard. Kinda ridiculous that it's illegal to park on unpaved areas :/

 

Sidewalk is PUBLIC property. Once you pull into your own driveway you must not have anything that could block the sidewalk.

Again... "think of the children"...

And yes I got a $50 ticket from Fremont about this same crap...

 

yup, overhang is public property, it becomes a safety issue.... man i love watching parking wars lol

 

Even if you are parked fully on the street (normal parallel parking), it is actually a parking violation if you block access to your own driveway.

 

Also, on-street, you MUST park in the direction of traffic. I got a ticket for that outside my own house.

 

Sorry, I meant partially blocking the driveway, not overhanging the sidewalk.

Just seems like such BS to me.

 

In San Jose it's legal to block your own driveway

 

Same in San Mateo. never got a ticket for that, and have done it for years

 

"not ticketed" is not the same as legal though. It's not anything I'm trying to fight, just curious about reasoning.

 

Sounds almost as bad as the one time I got a ticket for riding my MTB bicycle with headphones on. This was in 1998, and the ticket was almost $100! CHP went out of his way to nab me... F'ing *****.


it's almost as if these laws exist just to give the officials more power.

 

i'm not exactly sure but the reasoning is that it's a "fire hazard"

 

At least in Sac, blocking a driveway isn't illegal - or, more accurately, they're not going to ticket unless there's a complaint from the owner (so they're not looking for it unless you call up with "hey, some jackass is blocking my driveway")

Blocking the sidewalk, however - they definitely ticket for that. Bumper hanging over, or car overhanging more than 10 inches up (like from a rolled curb) and you're getting a ticket.

Got to work out that particular distinction last week when my dad pulled up in front of my house for a quick stop - walked inside for 2 minutes and came out to parking enforcement leaving a present on his windshield, heh.

 

that's because you were probably wearing or covering both ears...

just like in cars, you cant cover both ears with a headphone.


guess where i learned this... an episode of CHiPs...

 

People block their own driveways in SF all the time. It's definitely illegal, but not often enforced.