Just when Californians were paying near record-high prices at the pump, the state's gas tax increased on Friday.
"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," Ed said. "We could be grandfathered in. If we show them a historical photo that showed a car... or a horse-drawn buggy in the carport," said Judy.But officials said: not old enough.And so they combed through hundreds of historic photos."Our house and our neighbor's house had empty fields all around," Ed said.
"I don't know what else they would be," he said."To me, it's pretty compelling that that was a car pulling in or out of the parking pad.""They said that they were too fuzzy," Judy said.Officials tell KGO's 7 On Your Side the couple was violating a code section banning vehicles in a setback in front of a house, even if it isn't blocking a sidewalk.
SF has to get money somewhere so they go after the people that will pay. That's exactly why they got the ticket.
Perfectly legal though for someone to drop trow and take a dump in their planter.
When you use google maps and find numerous vehicles parked in their “pads” even in the most richest part of San Fran. Smh
Thanks for covering this couple's story. The contempt that San Francisco has for its residents needs to be exposed.
There's a lot more to fix about San Francisco than picking on an old couple about their parking spot. Tired of seeing all the homeless people, human feces, urine, garbage and beggars on the street. Used to love coming here but not anymore until they clean up their act.
Someone photo shop a horse carriage onto their car port 😂
LondonBreed knock knock? You there?
The city is dumb. Why they try making something illegal when that parking belongs to the house. That person owns the house and that parking is part of the house. If I own something, no one has to tell me how to use it or what to do with it.
lookitssnansee Damm
“Planning Chief Dan Sider said it was enacted decades ago for aesthetic reasons……”. Ok Dan. But transients crapping on the sidewalk or shooting up is aesthetically pleasing?! GFY San Francisco.
The 🔑 word in this article is SETBACK. It’s not a driveway but a setback ! makes sense
I’d find that Karen neighbor and make sure they could no long report me or others for a jealous or stupid reason again
Yes a friend who lives there said they can’t park in their driveway either ! What!
Don't worry Mike Gaceson will Da reject the ticket! LoL
a perfect example of government overreach. especially as they labeled this activity “illegal” and a law enacted for aesthetic reasons. whats next, sitting on your porch will be illegal cuz of a aesthetic law
1500 homeless could all have taken a dump on the driveway without getting a ticket …. What is the state become 🥲
Somehow some way they will blame republicans
Just say you live in your car and they won’t do anything about it
Pure greed!
The CITY should be fined by the citizens for all the homelessness and TRASH
Because of course this is what SF spends time on right now. Too bad it’s not a tent full of needles and shit.
This is Insane .. Only in SanFranciso u cant park in your Own driveway.! $1500.00 fine. Time to get out . and Florida looks terrific about now.
Wtf?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 but homeless can be posted anywhere
But please no keep voting Democrat. Cause San Francisco is just an affordable and pleasant place to be.
If they were black it wouldn't happen
vjeannek Are the homeowners registered Democrats?
IrinaMoises Gotta get some money somewhere
vjeannek What a horrible place to live. Their carport….almost 40 years….ridiculous. Control much SF?
IrinaMoises Lib cities are just garbage all the way around...
Crazy world we live in! 🤦♀️
With all the illegal homeless drug use, living on the streets, no trash or street cleaning going on, businesses moving away, Walgreens shutting down stores because of lawlessness, and the city is ticketing tax paying residents? Nice going SF..
California needs to get that money back some way 🤷♀️
But you can crap on the sidewalk with no penalty. Lord help us!
Who's the guy they interviewed on the street?
This is what you have to do when 40% of the taxpayers have bailed
WTF?
If this guy would sleep on the sidewalk and take a daily dump in the planter he would be a hero! SFO is insane!
London Greed is the highest-paid mayor in America. Somebody has to pay for all of the fat cats at City Hall.
In SF, you can only live on the driveway, not park. SF hates property owners of any kind.
Sound like a joke. This is some back woods f-ery
SanFrancisco government sfgov is hungry for revenue 💵 💉 ⛺️ 💩
WTH. This is the most ridiculous reason. I’m embarrassed for the city for even going on record.
CA literally finds any and all possible means to stick it to the people in draining all your money by all possible means. Shits whack
Stupid is, stupid does.
We need to fight back, no matter our political association, as neighbors and stop this crap. As long as it is not trashy we should be able to park what we want in our driveway. I am fighting to keep by boat over the summer on my driveway. I don't have a large gated sideyard
Because these governments are out of control with their insane control. Less government, please. Let the people be.
abc7newsbayarea this is ABSOLUTELY THE PINNACLE of ridiculousness!!!
What do expect from a bunch of liberal Democrats!! ! 🤔🙄🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
Further proof how stupid this state is w laws and regulations made by NIMRODS! Aesthetic reasons gtfo w that bs.HAVE U SEEN THE SHITSHOW THT IS TAKING PLACE ON SIDEWALKS HERE?! Every headline is more unbelievable than the prev.But the good people here just take it up the a$$.😬
Makes sense in a shithole like San Francisco. I guess officials have nothing else to worry about in that cesspool.....
...but homeless people can stake their claim in your front yard and shoot up in front of your kids without consequence.
Crazy California. Nothing makes sense.
BS…they pay their home taxes. How much more they want to milk out the home owners?
Oh good grief! SF along with Crazy Cali, this is so dumb! They should sue to get the law changed, or build a covered carport there. Can’t park in the open, but go pay big money for permits to build a carport cover, 4 poles and a roof lol, can park if it’s built. So freakin dumb!
But it’s ok to 💩on the sidewalk.
Now if the homeowners poop on their driveway, shoot up drugs or stand on their driveway naked they would’ve been ignored😆
Move out of that state soon there will be no cops stores!
And that’s why their city will never be visited or get a dime of my money
Good..let them live with their results!
Maybe the City needs their car pad for the homeless to use as a toilet? 🤦♀️
What a bunch of humbug 😂 who are these people that make these rules up 🧐
How can this get coverage 3 families. But our community issue with massive landslide law suits taking homes and an active fire incident caused because of no brush clearance,impacting hundreds, at $$$$, cannot get any media interest.laco rpv landslide
Meanwhile human fecal matter on the sidewalks isn’t an issue for them….. leave this couple alone. They shouldn’t be able to tell someone what they can and cannot do on there own property.
Sf should be ashamed of themselves for doing this to these people. They have done everything to appease the city and it’s still not good enough. They have proven it’s always been a parking spot which leads me to believe the city is up to something else devious
Honest hardworking libs getting a taste of what and there BS. Sf residents you keep enjoying being victims and allow/advocate for criminals n drug use. So now it's hitting home in different manner.
But it seems ok to remove your front yard grass, pour a cement slab and park to your hearts content. Silly.
VoteThemAllOut2022 VoteThemOut VoteRedToSaveAmerica
My property my choice
Make sense. Newsomes home territory. Swindler with a license.
You’d think the Mayor could make this nonsense go away - don’t bet on it. It’s going to be difficult to retrieve a Google Earth pic of this street from the early 20th Century…
There is no curb. Appears the city designed the street so they were excepted or allowed to pull into there.
I'd sympathize, but SF residents voted for this, so I'll just sit back and laugh, and laugh and laugh. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
mmshowalter1 Goodbye California.
Why can't you park in your own driveway, WTF?
What a story! San Francisco is really becoming a zoo with ridiculous laws. Who are they going to bother with parking in front of their house? Now they will fill more parking on the street which reduce more parking. I wish they find that photo and get their parking back!
Coming from the city that has allowed filth to infiltrate it from every angle, sure, why not go after the homeowner who helps to fund the city. “Sorry, you can’t park in your driveway, but by all means, feel free to shoot up in the BART tunnel or take a dump on your street.”SMH!
You get what you tolerate.
Absolutely no reason given for this nonsense.
But by all means let criminals loot our stores.
🤬😤😡😠
Stupid
People can take a shit anywhere they want but you can’t park your car in your driveway? What a joke. Time too change the laws and the leadership in San Francisco
I understand parking ON a driveway is illegal because it blocks a sidewalk. But, this isn't blocking a sidewalk at all. If that space isn't meant for parking, then why have a driveway?
We love SF and miss living there. But it became painfully clear, years ago, that the powers that be care more for the people who contribute nothing than the working folks — of ALL economic classes — who do.
That’s ridiculous!
'Planning Chief Dan Sider said it (the rule) was enacted decades ago for aesthetic reasons...' Wait 🤔 😂have you not seen what the storefronts and sidewalks look like now? That 🚗 is the least of your problems 🤣 dc
Tell the police your live in your car because you’re homeless. They will leave you alone!!!
Huh the city only have right 3 feet and the sidewalk to the street. What they’re doing is abuse of authorities homeowners intimidation.
Pelosi needs that ice cream money
CA has a $100+ billion surplus and they still wanna raise our taxes and don't even wanna pause the gas tax and now fines people for parking in their own driveway? Holy Fuck! Why are voters putting up with this shit around here? Why?
This should be the other way around...Fine the people who have a driveway and don't use it.
SF is a shit hole
ramp_it_up84
I would fight the ticket stating they should be 'grandfathered' into the law that states if the driveway was made and approved by the city when the house was built there is no grounds for the ticket. A city tried this with me and I won based on this.
That’s just great. Stupidest “rule” ever.
Just remove license plate and cover vin. Then likely nothing the city can do. Add trash to car and claim someone is living in it again city will be ok. City loves to harass the mostly law abiding residents
This sort of thing is just really dumb behavior by the municipal government.
SF turning into a ghost town. Maybe SF need to start charging ghost for just hanging out
Why anyone would own a home in a city that detests its non-criminal and homeless residents is beyond me. SF truly is a mess.
Gosh damn SF is a shithole
And you can park against an apartment building with no garage. So concrete pad is 'intent' for parking.
I would go to the title company they used when purchased. If its writen as a legal description then the title co. And city can battle it out. I bet theres a paper trail on this, could be in home owners favor. Compile more eveidence for a case.
they can shit in it for free tho
TheDemocrats
California is so broke that every city wants to make money for every little things next they would want us to paid them to walk our dogs.
Democrats voting Democrat and shocked at the results.
Why does anybody live there?
More proof that our leaders have their priorities backwards and we the people are paying the price.
They claim someone made a complaint, and that's what caused the ticket to be issued. Nonsense. The only entity that stands to benefit from this is the City. Methinks they're that anonymous complainant.
Things you don’t get cited for in SF…
You can do whatever with your gun but you can't park your car in your own driveway. WOW. Only in America.
And it’s ness like this that makes people leave the state!
California has gone to the dogs. One of the best things I have done is leave that place. Idiocracy is upon us.
What they need to do, is sleep in the car port, take a few dumps on the sidewalk, give out crack pipes, and make a donation to the local teachers union. Problem solved!
TF🤬😡😡😡😡
gazooly12 Curious --- Time to change Government.
Yeah, it’s illegal to block the toilet, I mean sidewalk.
WTF🤯
knxnews
Looking for any reason to extort money from the tax payers !
San Francisco land of stupidity apparently. Why does it matter. It's their property. They can park on the roof for all I care.
Should give tickets to people who “save spots” in Los Angeles with random items
It’s literally a car pad.. it states it in the name… one more reasons to never move there. But if it were violent criminals they would look the other way. Attack law abiding citizens.. good job wankers
Tyranny
Put a homeless tent there and nothing will happen!!!! 🙄
imagínense nomás, hasta donde llega la ignorancia y la prepotencia de cabrones que viven de nuestro sueldo, donde hijos de la chingada se va a estacionar si no hay un lugar para hacerlo, PINCHE COMUNISMO DE MIERDA.
Wow
Then where are they suppose to park on the street this is bullsh**
San Francisco is a shit hole. Prove me wrong.
Where does Pelosi park?
Take drugs, steal, shit on lawns, break into cars, attack someone...No biggie. Pay taxes, work hard, pay rent or mortgage...FU It's insane already! WTF 🤷🏻♀️
Wouldn’t Google maps have examples of this? Street view?
This is why San Francisco is such a sh!t show
thats not fair and sf city gooberment knows it and should let them have the space in front of their own property any how
My daughter's car has been broken into six times and stolen once in last two years in SF. Let's focus on parking tickets - great idea.
Per article: Planning Chief Dan Sider said it was enacted decades ago for aesthetic reasons, to 'ensure that front yards don't turn into parking lots.' But it's OK to crap all over the street.
Good! You get what you vote for. Elections have consequences.
And thats why california is going to sh*t 😂
And why do people live in San Francisco?
This is what democrats vote for. More government control over everything.
I’m confused why can’t they park in their own driveway?
'Sider said someone made an anonymous complaint to the city. Two neighbors also got tagged for the same violation, parking in a front driveway.' There's always that one neighbor. Hope that person breaks a hip
So where he supposed to park at?
Put a tent ⛺️ with some 💩 in front of it. The city will then pay you.
Land of the free.
In SF you can shit on the sidewalk but can’t park in your driveway.
Whatever. They turned their yard in to a parking spot.
I’d be painting me a garage…
It would be interesting to see where 'Planning Chief Dan Sider' parks his car right?
Rich white Liberal utopia
I don’t feel bad for them. It’s their choice to live in that shit hole city. They voted for the idiots who enacted these rules. Now live with the consequences.
... did someone at the sfplanning get dumped again? having another bad day.
Sorry, they were given a ticket for parking on their own fucking property?
California is fucking weird bruh
Build a tiny garage and put two matchbox cars in it. Park in front of that.
Used to love SF but now...
Bureaucracy. smh
lalovestrump The criminals need to park there
Meanwhile the homeless can take a dump anywhere they want
Ridiculous. Meanwhile the homeless can post up anywhere they want. What happened to SF
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