The city has been allowing "resident only parking signs" in downtown Jeff for a few years. The ordinance says there is to be a $100 annual fee for this privilege. So for $100 a year the city street in front of your home becomes your private parking spot. A 25.00 ticket can be written to violators. I think this needs to be stopped because a street is a public right of way. Would the city pave my drive and maintain it for $100 a year? I doubt it! This poll is for your views on this subject.

Question:
Should the city of Jeffersonville continue to lease parking space on the city streets for $100 a year?

Choices:
Yes
No

 

It always cracks me up during Thunder and other major events when residents take chairs, line, etc... and block off city streets to keep people from parking there. But if I am honest, I would probably try the same thing.

How about those neighbors with 10 junk cars and only 2 spaces in front of their house to park. Guess where they're going to park? In front of a house that doesn't have 10 junk cars and room to park. What about this issue? Why should people put up with a junk yard in front of their house? I'm definitely for Resident Only Parking signs!

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Originally posted by Susie Sunshine:
How about those neighbors with 10 junk cars and only 2 spaces in front of their house to park. Guess where they're going to park? In front of a house that doesn't have 10 junk cars and room to park. What about this issue? Why should people put up with a junk yard in front of their house? I'm definitely for Resident Only Parking signs!

Yes Susie, 10 junk cars can be a big problem. Jeffersonville has strict codes and ordinances to deal with junk autos. But I think people are abusing the signs. My daughter lived on Maple up to a year ago. Her next door neighbor had no auto but had the ROP signs in front of her home. She even called the police one day because my daughter parked her vehicle with 6 inches of the rear bumper past the sign. Another one is John Perkins. He has the ROP signs in front of his home on Chestnut Street, not for one vehicle but for three vehicles. John also has a three car garage on the back of his property with paved parking in front of the garage for three more vehicles. Are his three REP spaces needed? A local drug store with home deliverey has told me at times the delivery vehicle had to park more than a block away at times for a delivery and then walk past empty parking spaces on the street because of the ROP signs.

I guess my biggest question is" Is it legal for the city to lease parking spaces on a public street"? Will it stand up in court?

I don't agree that anyone be given the opprotunity to lease a space, but the residents with handicap placards should be given the opprotunity.

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Originally posted by VirQuisqueVir:
I don't agree that anyone be given the opprotunity to lease a space, but the residents with handicap placards should be given the opprotunity.

YES, I agree on the handicap issue. And the fee should be reduced for them to $25.00 a year. If there is not an annual fee there is no way for the city to know that someone has died or moved to another location so the sign can be removed.

I live downtown and have been guilty of putting up signs for the past 2 Thunders...and I too have thought it was probably illegal but no one has stopped me.

Here is why I do it: have you ever seen the way the street/yard/parking lot looks after Thunder is over? Trash, cigs, junk, clothing, coolers, you name it it is left behind. I don't want that trash all over my front yard so I block it off. It may not be the correct, legal thing to do but until someone stops me I plan to continue...

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Originally posted by Green Shoes:
I live downtown and have been guilty of putting up signs for the past 2 Thunders...and I too have thought it was probably illegal but no one has stopped me.

Here is why I do it: have you ever seen the way the street/yard/parking lot looks after Thunder is over? Trash, cigs, junk, clothing, coolers, you name it it is left behind. I don't want that trash all over my front yard so I block it off. It may not be the correct, legal thing to do but until someone stops me I plan to continue...

Just park your cars out there on the street....no problems and the same result.

I am confused.....why would anyone have to pay to park in front of the home they live in? Moneygrabbers, they are trying to do something similar in New Albany. They need money also, annexation and taxation will be forthcoming.

Dad of 3- that's kinda what I do, I park my vehicle there and I save a spot for my friends/family who show up a little later. I also have a driveway in front of my house and I swear, if I didn't block that off people would park right in front of it.

I live among the churches of downtown Jeff and on one of their nights I'm lucky if I can get into the driveway. I know, I can have them towed but I'm already going to Hell on a Scholarship so I figure why push it???!!!

I'm all for Resident Parking Only signs! Nothing worse than coming home and not having a place to even park your own car in front of your OWN home.

Downtown residents also pay the property taxes that pave our city streets. To pay a surcharge for an RPO sign is perfectly legitimate. Just as non-dowmtown dwellers probably paid a bit more for their suburban lot with room for a driveway.

It comes down to courtesy. I live downtown but do not have RPO signs. To come home with a load of groceries and have to park a half block or more from your house? It can be infuriating!
Sure we do not "own" the spot on a public street in front of our home. But common courtesy should allow us close proximity to our home.

Turn the table, and realize how furious you would be if you were to come home and find your driveway full of strange cars and you had to park down the road and walk home.

I've had my garage blocked. I've found a car parked in my lawn. My brother-in-law once lived with us for a while. He came out one morning to find a motorcycle on the hood of his car. If he had purchased an RPO sign, would the motorcycle have been parked there illegally?

"I've had my garage blocked. I've found a car parked in my lawn. My brother-in-law once lived with us for a while. He came out one morning to find a motorcycle on the hood of his car. If he had purchased an RPO sign, would the motorcycle have been parked there illegally?"

Say what????

I would have to say yes.