Not Enough Parking Spaces Infront of My House

LFlat broke on 09/11/2020 - 12:37
Last edited 09/11/2020 - 13:44

Hey bargainers, i live on a corner property and im running out of parking spaces. we have 5 cars in the house and i want to park on the front lawn but don't want to get fined.
anyone knows how i can make that possible? how would i convince the council or is there another way of doing it?

Edit: i meant nature strip not lawn.

5 cars is a lot but there are five adults in the house and everyone's got a different career at a different spot around Melbourne

Also im ok with parking on down the road but looking to see if a more convenient solution is possible.

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Comments

  • tabitha731 on 10/11/2020 - 07:25
    +4

    This is such a typical melbourniite thing to do.. Everyone drives to work, and all those people all complain about congestion in the city! Why are u melbourniites so fearful of public transport?

    • RSmith on 10/11/2020 - 09:39

      Covid recently…

      Also, you can't generalise unless you have been to Melbourne and taken public transport. It is usually pretty packed.

      • 91rs on 10/11/2020 - 10:39
        +1

        Public transport \ transport in India is packed. PT in melbourne can be busy at peak times, like every other city.

        • RSmith on 10/11/2020 - 10:56
          +1

          So Melbourne people are not really afraid of public transport.

          • 91rs on 10/11/2020 - 13:14
            -1

            @RSmith: Aside from some women who work shifts or late nights (given Melbourne being the r@pe capital of Australia) I've never heard of anyone who was fearful of PT in Melbourne. Even during COVID there were so few people on PT they didn't have an issue.
            Most are happy with it. I know people who've sold cars and just walk, ride or PT about but they do live closer to the city.
            If you're crossing city or going out of the way then PT can take forever (2.5hrs PT or 45-60min drive) but that could also be most cities.

            • RSmith on 12/11/2020 - 14:00

              @91rs:

              given Melbourne being the r@pe capital of Australia

              Never heard it before.

              • 91rs on 12/11/2020 - 22:32

                @RSmith: Yeah there was quite a run there for a while where it was a semi-regular thing with quite violent crime against women, it's cooled off a bit but still sketchy at times. Made a few people I know reconsider PT or shift work at nights.

    • picklewizard on 10/11/2020 - 11:37
      +4

      LOL yeah I love the hypocrisy… "there's not enough parking!" literally has 5 cars

    • jv on 10/11/2020 - 11:39
      +2

      This is such a typical melbourniite thing to do..

      Park a car ???

    • smartazz104 on 10/11/2020 - 19:23

      At least we have working trams…

    • juki on 13/11/2020 - 00:36

      because its unreliable and shite

  • Grunntt on 10/11/2020 - 08:55
    +9

    How inconvenient for you - feel free to park either on the footpath or, better still, across it so you don't have the inconvenience of your own making.
    But, please make sure you explain to the guy with the white cane or assistance dog why he has to either squeeze past or, even worse, step onto the road so you can avoid being inconvenienced.
    There are actual reasons for these rules - and they are not all just for your personal benefit.

  • unclekenz on 10/11/2020 - 09:36
    +4

    Raise house one storey.
    All cars park under.

  • OzHunterNSW on 10/11/2020 - 09:51
    +6

    You don't think you have out grown the premises?
    Five individuals can surely pool their collective resources together and obtain a larger premises with plentiful parking.

    • dcash on 12/11/2020 - 13:03

      I think OP believes it's his right to have council provide him, free of charge, five car parking spaces in the street directly outside his premises.

  • popsiee on 10/11/2020 - 09:58

    If any of the 5 cars are sheet boxes they have the priority of parking any spaces down the street .
    If not sell them so x amount of cars that don't normally fit are sheet boxes that can do the above .
    My bad if your in one of those suburbs with no parks down the street as well lol .
    No way would I recommend getting a coffin on 2 wheels with not only the drugs but worst people every 5 sec's looking at screens .

  • 91rs on 10/11/2020 - 10:37

    Old enough to own a car? Old enough to move out and live on your own where you can pay for your own parking (a place that has parking) or battle for street parking elsewhere.

    Big problem is the poor planning in car hating Melbourne, while everyone drives everywhere it's still very car hating in the planning for parking (and lack of).
    Subdivided lots broken up into 3-6 units or houses, zero visitor parking is the norm.
    Apartment blocks that have no free visitor parking and what parking they do have is paid parking so you end up having to fork out for parking to visit friends.
    So many main roads with houses fronting onto the road but only parking would be in frontage roads nearby which are always packed with cars already.
    Families that turn the garage into bedrooms or play areas for their kids and then park in other people's way in driveways or driveway entries are an issue.
    Parking on nature strips on busy roads so people cant see traffic and nearly have accidents when trying to leave their driveways are the worst.

    One of the most livable cities in the world they say …

    • [Deactivated] on 12/11/2020 - 13:20
      +1

      Liveable ≠ driveable.

      If you can't get to your jobs in five different suburbs maybe all the people living in this house are living in the wrong facking suburb? Like it's not that hard to move. Find a place near a train line or a smaller place closer to work.

  • jv on 10/11/2020 - 11:38
    +11

    Park them in your garage…

    • Drakesy on 10/11/2020 - 14:29
      +2

      JV Please have my up vote

      • jv on 10/11/2020 - 14:34
        +2

        Good job there Russell…

        • Drakesy on 10/11/2020 - 14:48
          +3

          Not all heroes wear capes.

  • AustriaBargain on 10/11/2020 - 12:03
    +3

    Take in a sixth renter, someone who is really good a Tetris and can figure out how to pack six cars around your house.

    • chriskq on 10/11/2020 - 23:02

      best comment in this thread.

  • sarahlump on 10/11/2020 - 12:44
    +1

    Catch the bus!

    • What is rrp on 10/11/2020 - 12:59

      careful now!
      this is oz-bargain, not oz-actual-good-advice-to-help-you

  • confetti01 on 10/11/2020 - 13:02
    +1

    If you happen to live next door you can rent my carport space seeing as I don’t own a car and take PT.

  • panorama on 10/11/2020 - 14:25
    +1

    Dont you dare park your car in front of my house………….I want the space free…and not looking out at your car……. How dare you even contemplate parking down the street, rip out your front garden and park there in your property.

  • sardines on 10/11/2020 - 15:29
    +5

    Thank you for not parking on the nature strip … That shits me, many times i have rang up the police where cars are blocking/parked on the pedestrian walkway between the nature strip. At my old place a friend down the road is a quadrapledric and he used to have trouble navigating the footpath and risk going on road when people just impeded access and parked in driveway/walkway or just block the whole walkway…(profanity) them

    • So Was Red on 10/11/2020 - 20:17
      +1

      Hell yeah sardines (both the fish and sentiment of this comment)
      (profanity) em!

    • BobLim on 10/11/2020 - 21:45
      +1

      It's also dangerous for anyone pulling into/out of driveways (blocks all vision), blocks vision of traffic approaching intersections if it's near the corner, and damages the grass and any buried services. There's good reasons why you're not allowed to do it, and should be fined/towed if you do.

    • pippohippo on 11/11/2020 - 22:53

      Do the police/council do anything? In my area there are cars parked on cycling lane, blocking half a driveway so you can't do a 3 point turn. Some dude park his boat and blocks half a lane. Council hasn't done a thing!

  • BargnHuntr on 10/11/2020 - 15:48
    +1

    take a photo of your house with nature strip, print massive photo/hoarding board of it and park behind it.
    When Parking Inspector comes he/she wont see any car since they are hiding behind it.

    Or get a job as Parking Inspector

  • imurgod on 10/11/2020 - 16:23
    +1

    I rent 4 parking spots out to people. Maybe you could rent someone's parking spot/garage.

  • MorriJ on 10/11/2020 - 16:25
    +2

    Quite a predicament. I would go the route of campaigning the local council to change the road into a one way street and have them mark out parking spots outside the front of your property (only your property) so you can 90 degree park there. Maybe get them to paint your numberplates on the road in each spot so other people don't take them.

  • greencomet on 10/11/2020 - 16:47
    +2

    Do what the neighbours opposite me do (8 people renting a 3 bedroom, 1 bath home with 7 cars) give zero f#$ks and park your sh*t boxes all over the street. Your neighbours will love you for it…

  • akashra on 10/11/2020 - 19:41
    +2

    I don't understand why we as society allow people to store their private property on public land. If you want to own 5 cars, then it's your responsibility to purchase land/property sufficient to park those 5 cars on that property.

    • Save 50 Cent on 11/11/2020 - 07:42
      +1

      Hey mate we pay rego to use the roads. It isn’t free you know.

    • bobbified on 11/11/2020 - 12:11
      +1

      I don't understand why we as society allow people to store their private property on public land

      What? Are you suggesting we each pre-purchase a piece of land/parking spot everywhere we intend to drive to so that we don't "store our private property on public land"?

      Imagine what a train station would look like!

    • Mistredo on 11/11/2020 - 16:40
      +1

      In most cities with parking permits you wouldn't be able to get 5 car spaces for a single house.

    • Drakesy on 12/11/2020 - 13:30

      Couldn't agree more, in China free parking is almost unheard of. Here in Australia we've grown up with free parking and therefore believe we're entitled to it. Councils typically should be charging a permit/rental fee for on street parking in line with land prices, this would make people reconsider having 5 cars and would push them onto alternatives such as cycling or public transport.
      Unfortunately due to the tragedy of the commons, it's a free for all at the moment with people preferring to park on the street than in their own property.

      Currently our parking system is broken and this is one of the few ways of fixing it.

  • leiiv on 10/11/2020 - 20:59

    Find neighbours who have unused car ports and rent from them.

    • jv on 11/11/2020 - 16:49
      +2

      have unused car ports

      Are they like ethernet ports?

  • chuckles89 on 10/11/2020 - 21:19

    If you own the premises, can you not make some amendments to your front lawn so all your cars fit? Dont be like my neighbours who have a garage, a driveway but park their freezer truck and their vehicle on the nature strip…..

  • ribze1 on 10/11/2020 - 22:29
    +1

    This thread has given me some great giggles.

  • living4music on 10/11/2020 - 23:17

    I am guessing OP is renting. So save all the headaches, just move to another house.
    You will not have a solution other than finding a parking on the street.
    A lot of people suggest costly solutions like OP is living in his own mansion.

  • [Deactivated] on 10/11/2020 - 23:19
    +2

    Your main issue is that this is a first world country and people arnt cattle.

    Got one of these ghetto houses near me with 6 cars and people living in a 'furnished' garage, yeah they anit citizens either

  • DarkOz on 11/11/2020 - 07:45
    +6

    5 adults 5 jobs in the same house. What is the total annual income and I am sure that you can use part of that income to solve your parking problems.

  • gimme on 11/11/2020 - 10:25
    +10

    Living next to a household with 5 cars would be my idea of a nightmare. Typically bogans and/or share houses and/or both.

  • behindmyego on 11/11/2020 - 13:03
    +4

    Having 5 cars in one house hey? What if all your neighbors do the same? Stop being selfish mate.

    • popsiee on 11/11/2020 - 18:59
      +1

      There a certain culture that buys a large house fills it with 20 + people and fills the whole street with their cars :)
      Economy of scale lol

      • fusion17 on 12/11/2020 - 10:05

        Hes in melbourne. wait, which one?

        op should move into a complex and park in all the guest spots.

  • bmerigan on 11/11/2020 - 13:37

    driveway?

  • seraphim2017 on 11/11/2020 - 15:34

    Do you have side access to your property to park in your rear yard at all? That might help at least in front of your place. Of course then your neighbours might see the vacant space and use it themselves!

    I understand a lot of households have 'kids' still at home with their own lives/jobs/cars. Opposite me, they have 9 cars, 4 are their work vehicles and are ute up to LR size, 5 are normal cars. It's annoying but it's a public space and usually 3 or 4 are on their drive, but it does make parking or having anyone visit you a bit challenging.

  • Mistredo on 11/11/2020 - 16:39

    Sell them and buy five small cars like Kia Picanto.

  • luffyex2010 on 11/11/2020 - 16:41

    Invest in one of those japanese rotating garage from ff:tokyo drift

  • Sad Dino on 11/11/2020 - 18:15
    +1

    Won't happen. Transport engineers at Councils have heard every excuse under the sun.

    Parking vehicles on the naturestrip damages the vegetation on top, and over time compacts the soil to possilbly damage the assets underneath.

  • iceyfire on 11/11/2020 - 18:58

    I have solved your problem, buy one of those mutli car trailers so you can store your cars onto of eachother, utilise that vertical space you got!.

    https://www.homestratosphere.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/…

  • zeomega on 11/11/2020 - 22:59
    +2

    I can imagine the annoyance of the neighbours.

  • color on 11/11/2020 - 23:15

    build a ramp on the way to your backyard and park there

  • peppermint420 on 11/11/2020 - 23:25

    you live in a house that does not fit your requirements, move house.

  • sendoor on 12/11/2020 - 07:13

    I am not sure whether each council have different rules
    But in my area, I can park in nature strip without blocking the concrete footpath (some nature strip has the concrete divider between kerbs)
    You better check with the council rules or requirements. Most importantly keep best relationship with your neighbors. (That will solve lots of problems from council fines)

  • TheOtherLeft on 12/11/2020 - 09:45
    +1

    My neighbour had 6 cars. They kept on getting fines because they would park in front of the Auspost mailbox, or park too close to the intersection/roundabout. They've since sold at least one car and now park down the street. The council also put up no parking signs in front of their house.

  • Jackkkkkk on 12/11/2020 - 09:56
    +2

    Lol, move houses with the 5 income to cover a mortgage/rent for another house with enough space for 5 cars. Nuff' said

  • demoiree on 12/11/2020 - 09:59

    get a foldable bike or scooter , so you can ride from your house to the car , vice versa

  • node modules on 12/11/2020 - 12:31

    We live in a country where a lot of street parking is free.

    Perhaps you could make adjustments to your property to accomodate your needs?

    • SF3 on 12/11/2020 - 13:00
      +2

      OP, "struggles" with walking 40m to a car (in the rain).

      • RSmith on 12/11/2020 - 14:02

        Maybe he needs better shoes so he doesn't slip while walking in the rain.

  • [Deactivated] on 12/11/2020 - 14:22

    One of my neighbours is a house with 10m frontage and 2 cars garage. They have… 6 cars (4 bmws, 1 range rover and a kia). Combined cars value bought new easily exceeds $380,000.

    1 car for mum, 1 for dad and 1 each for the 3 late adult kids and the kia for the nanny.

    They obviously can afford a house with on a much bigger block with more garages but seem happy to park 4 at least 3 cars in front of neighbours houses. Plus 2 more cars when their kids boyfriends sleepover.

    The OP has similar problem but feel entitled to for more.. instead of actually move to a different house.

  • SF3 on 12/11/2020 - 16:21

    I'm not sure how others feel about this, especially if you have experienced it.

    When your neighbour's vehicles are parked (on the street) in front of your house (obvious not enough room on their land or some sort of laziness) on garbage night.

    You can't find a spot to place your bins (and you have place them to block your own driveway)

    BUT they manage to leave enough room on the street to fit their own bins!

    😠😠😠

    • OzzyOzbourne on 12/11/2020 - 23:58

      How clumsy of you to drop those nails along the edge of the road

  • Davo1111 on 12/11/2020 - 16:45

    lol 40m walk to car, the struggle is real

  • Philthy on 12/11/2020 - 19:34

    a house in our cul de sac road parks their 10 cars ( 2 working , rest all shitboxes) in the cul de sac… so 1 ) can turn around 2 ) cars / delivery trucks cant get through.

    and guess what happens when they have visitors..

    • gimme on 12/11/2020 - 22:15
      +1

      report it to council. They can't park on the street if not registered.

  • smartazz104 on 12/11/2020 - 19:40

    OP what suburb do you live in and what suburbs are these 5 jobs in?

  • krisspy on 12/11/2020 - 21:08

    Park in the middle of the road. Why bother wasting time parking, just get in and go

  • cashless on 12/11/2020 - 23:14
    +1

    Buy self parking cars thus delegating the problem

  • chrisd262 on 13/11/2020 - 14:11

    In my area unregistered cars cannot be removed from street unless permission given by owners.
    Usually a sticker is added to windscreen giving them 14 days to respond - if no response then can be removed.
    Boats on trailers have to move at least one block every 30 days.

    Please note Councils have no responsibility to provide on street parking.

    If you buy or rent then you need to be happy with the available parking - its your responsibility.

    Some Councils have residential parking for 1 or 2 cars only but permit costs.

  • kevsta on 19/11/2020 - 12:29

    Visit Sydney's inner west and you'll notice that some residents reserve the parking spot at the front of their homes with traffic cones or wheelie bins.

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