Roanoke
Palo Alto cars treat the public streets in front of their houses
Age 28
Where they pose a traffic hazard limiting visibility the city already has the tools to move them. When I was on Council, the City moved the motorhomes away from the Target driveway on Latham. When I was Mayor, I relayed, to Public Works, concerns from the CEO of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation that its garage driveway exit onto Continental Circle was obstructed by oversized vehicles. When I checked it out, I found construction trucks. So the City immediately painted the adjacent curb red, and soon we posted signs prohibiting tall vehicles a little further down. See photo.
The proponents dont want to make the streets for all. Throughout our single-family neighborhoods, people treat the public streets in front of their houses as their own private property, parking their cars for much longer than 72 hours and leaving basketball hoops there permanently. I dont really have a problem with that. So why do they have a problem with other people parking their vehicles on streets that are not in front of houses?
Finally, some of the proponents claimed that even before the COVID-19 pandemic, our police were not enforcing the requirement that vehicles be moved at least every 72 hours. Vehicle residents, on the other hand, told me that the police were over-zealous. The proponents of Measure C chose to forget that the purpose of the 72-hour rule is to prevent the accumulation of abandoned vehicles, not to harass people who cant afford the rent.
The courts have ruled that cities cant roust homeless people or people whose homes have wheels unless there is someplace local for them to go. Thats why the proponents pretend that the measure is about traffic and parking.
The proponents dont want to make the streets for all. Throughout our single-family neighborhoods, people treat the public streets in front of their houses as their own private property, parking their cars for much longer than 72 hours and leaving basketball hoops there permanently. I dont really have a problem with that. So why do they have a problem with other people parking their vehicles on streets that are not in front of houses?
Finally, some of the proponents claimed that even before the COVID-19 pandemic, our police were not enforcing the requirement that vehicles be moved at least every 72 hours. Vehicle residents, on the other hand, told me that the police were over-zealous. The proponents of Measure C chose to forget that the purpose of the 72-hour rule is to prevent the accumulation of abandoned vehicles, not to harass people who cant afford the rent.
The courts have ruled that cities cant roust homeless people or people whose homes have wheels unless there is someplace local for them to go. Thats why the proponents pretend that the measure is about traffic and parking.
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