Mackenzie Click-Mickelson
Chugging along the path of life
- Joined
- Oct 23, 2015
If speaking towards cars it's 48 hours without moving at the city level and 24 hours without moving on the street at the HOA level.What's the limit? Around here it's a universal 72 hours unless there's some sign posting a different limit. Pretty much every city sets it up that way, and if unincorporated the county has a 72 hour limit regardless of whether it's the burbs or a rural area. However, it rarely gets enforced. We don't have a specific parking enforcement division around here, so the police handle it. Apparently they'll only enforce the limits if there's a complaint by a resident. I've parked in front of my house for over a week and nothing happened. I've seen enforcement once, and that was in the form of a notice on the windshield giving 72 hours from the time of the notice to move. I think one of my neighbors called it in.
I remember visiting some rural part of California and I was curious as to how long I might be able to leave my car parked on the side of the road if I went backpacking or took the bus. I looked up the county code and couldn't find anything other than on specific streets in the main town.
Honestly I don't know that it is enforced all that much (it really probably hasn't been) but I know people complain to the HOA from time to time. Usually the issue gets brought up more (and the HOA will send a reminder in the social networking site they use for most of their communication) in the wintertime because cars parked on the street mean plows (and pick up trucks when used with plow attached) can't treat the roads or plow them as effectively.