1776: When Freedom From The State?

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Mon Jul 4 23:39:21 PDT 2022


Here the US Tyrant State tries to spark a revolution via
pissing off all those who live within it...



San Francisco Couple Gets $1,500 Fine For Parking In Their Own Driveway

Things really seem to be going "uphill" in San Francisco. A couple
from the city, who has parked in the same spot "every day for the last
36 years" was ticketed $1,542 for parking in their own driveway this
month.

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.

And the couple came up with a photo from 1938 which shows a car or
buggy pulling into his driveway. But the planning department told them
the photo was too fuzzy and that it couldn't be used as evidence.

Today, their carpad sits empty and the couple is forced to park on the
hill. "The onus is on us to prove we're innocent... though I don't
feel guilty," Judy concluded.


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