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Couple fined $1,500 for parking in own driveway
Posted on 7/5/22 at 9:44 am
Posted on 7/5/22 at 9:44 am
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For decades, Judy and Ed Craine parked their car in the driveway in front of their San Francisco home. Parking in the Golden City can be tricky with its steep hills and busy streets, and the Craines say they were lucky to have a spot that's all their own for the past 36 years.
That is, until they received a $1,542 fine for parking on their own property -- with the threat of a $250-per-day fee if they didn't get the car off their carpad
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The Craines told ABC-affiliate KGO-TV that the San Francisco Planning Department is enforcing a decades-old section of code that bans motor vehicles of all kinds from being parked on a carpad or setback in front of a house unless it's accompanied by a garage or cover.
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Added Ed Craine: "To all of a sudden to be told you can't use something that we could use for years, it's startling. Inexplicable."
The Craines believe the space has been used for parking since the house was built in 1910. So the planning department told the couple that the city would waive the fine if they could prove that the lot has historically been used for parking.
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The Craines dug up a photo of their daughter from 34 years ago, where their car is just visible in the driveway -- but officials said the photo wasn't old enough.
Then, after a lot of Googling, they found a blurry aerial photo from 1938 that shows a car -- or a possibly a horse-and-buggy -- pulling into the driveway of the home. But the planning department said the photo was not clear evidence.
Planning Chief Dan Sider told KGO that the code was enacted decades ago for aesthetic reasons, and that no exceptions can be made.
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"I recognize that the property owner is frustrated. I think I would feel the same way in their situation," Sider said in an email. "But the Planning Code doesn't allow for the City to grandfather illegal uses on account of their having flown below the radar for a length of time."
The planning department was alerted to the Craines' use of their driveway by an anonymous complaint that was lodged against the Craines and two of their neighbors, who were also tagged with the same violation.
In the end, the city closed the case against the Craines and threw out the fines after the couple agreed to no longer use the carpad, according to KGO.
City officials told the Craines that the couple can build a cover for the carpad, or a garage, if they want to continue to park there.
Posted on 7/5/22 at 9:46 am to tduecen
$100 says they voted for the same people who are busy ticketing them
Posted on 7/5/22 at 9:46 am to tduecen
Meanwhile, there are no more retail stores left in downtown San Fran due to the crime
Posted on 7/5/22 at 9:46 am to tduecen
quote:land of the free
they received a $1,542 fine for parking on their own property
Posted on 7/5/22 at 9:47 am to tduecen
The Government is the greatest HOA of all time.
Posted on 7/5/22 at 9:47 am to tduecen
Thank you kind mother government for letting them build something on their own property to park where they have always parked.
Posted on 7/5/22 at 9:48 am to tduecen
If you live in San Franscico you deserve these things happening to you and much worse
This post was edited on 7/5/22 at 9:49 am
Posted on 7/5/22 at 9:48 am to tduecen
City must be going broke or want to harass them into leaving.
Posted on 7/5/22 at 9:49 am to tduecen
When you vote democrat, democrat is exactly what you're going to get
Posted on 7/5/22 at 9:50 am to tduecen
So...they were breaking the law right?
This post was edited on 7/5/22 at 3:58 pm
Posted on 7/5/22 at 9:50 am to tduecen
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their San Francisco home
frick me, I found the problem right away.
Posted on 7/5/22 at 9:52 am to tduecen
But you can take a dump on the sidewalk in broad daylight in front of a cop and all is well
Posted on 7/5/22 at 9:53 am to tduecen
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City officials told the Craines that the couple can build a cover for the carpad, or a garage
Likely can't even get permits to do this.
California!
Posted on 7/5/22 at 9:54 am to tduecen
Thats bullshite. I would put a cheap tent in my driveway
Posted on 7/5/22 at 9:56 am to SlowFlowPro
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Likely can't even get permits to do this.
California!
I think it took Bill Maher almost 4 years to get solar panels up and running at his Beverly Hills estate
Posted on 7/5/22 at 9:57 am to FredBear
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When you vote democrat, democrat is exactly what you're going to get
You checked the couple's voting record?
Posted on 7/5/22 at 9:58 am to Damone
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You checked the couple's voting record?
Is San Francisco controlled by the democrat party?
Posted on 7/5/22 at 9:59 am to tduecen
Worried about “aesthetic” appearances from cars in driveways but not worried about the homeless everywhere.
Frick SF and all who run it.
Frick SF and all who run it.
Posted on 7/5/22 at 10:02 am to tduecen
Is this the freedom Newsom proposed in his ad that aired in Florida? Freedom against parking on your own property? Got it.
Posted on 7/5/22 at 10:06 am to tduecen
They have to park in the street? But where will they poop now?
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