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Park in Your Own Driveway? A $1,500 Fine in San Francisco

• https://libertarianinstitute.org, by Matt Agorist

As many people do, the couple lives on a hill in a city where parking is always at a premium. The couple has been parking in the carpad in front of their house—which they say has been there since the house was built in 1910.

But now the city planning department is saying it is "illegal to park in the front yard of a house" and threatened further tickets should the couple—Judy and Ed Craine—continue to park where they have been.

"We always use the carport," Judy told ABC 7 San Francisco. "Parked in that driveway every day and every night," Ed added. "We got this email saying we can't park in the pad anymore. I said what, that's crazy."

Judy continued: "It was very surprising, to say the least. I wrote them back saying I thought this was a mistake."

But the city planning department confirmed the ticket. "And if we were found parking there again, it would be a $1,500 fine," Judy added.

Ed asked: "Why are you taking away something that has great utility? To all of a sudden to be told you can't use something that we could use for years. It's, it's startling. Inexplicable."

The city planning committee then made the couple prove that parking there was a historic use on the lot, so the couple started digging. "We could be grandfathered in. If we show them a historical photo that showed a car… or a horse-drawn buggy in the carport," Judy said.


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