General Road and Highway Discussion

[numberguy]

It happens: people use forms of transportation on places that are against the law (bikes on sidewalks), people complain about the smell of trash in the summer when they buy or rent a property or business near the local dump, the airport gets complaints from people who live in the flight path.

If you have a complaint, you make it. It's part of the public consultation process.

I'm not saying the residents are right or wrong. I am saying that bought into a property with certain amenities. One of those amenities is being taken away. I can understand why some of those people would complain. Pity has nothing to do with it. It is not in my place nor anyone else's to tell someone what they should or shouldn't do with their garage. It's their property.

Perhaps the residents, having shovelled/mowed the lawn next to the street/weeded the law feel some sort of quasi-ownership. Other jurisdictions have this in varying degrees -- try parking for an extended period of time in front of a residence in many neighbourhoods in Boston and you're basically asking for your car to get vandalized.