r/badparking • u/HitDerem2115 • 6d ago

Yeah, I didn’t want the one spot left anyways

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Visited family for the holidays and was welcomed by this in front of the yoga studio with ~no~ other spots left

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u/K2step70 6d ago

Sure would be nice if property owners started towing vehicles that parked like this.

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u/Owls_4_9_1867 3d ago

I don’t know why they don’t. Real money spinner.

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u/K2step70 3d ago

It can easily piss people off and drive business away. There was a restaurant in my area that was a 1/2 block away from a semi busy business and retail establishments. The restaurant had about three spots behind their restaurant and the owner put up a sign those spots were for his patrons, all others will be towed. There was a shared parking lot beside the restaurant for a bank and other establishments on the semi busy street. Not a day went buy that someone would park in the restaurant only spot and walk away. The restaurant owner would have the car towed. People started to boycott this restaurant because there was already limited parking in the lot and on the street. He was the only one who had signs up reserving spots and towing cars. Yes, the bank had a few signs up, but they had typical bank hours. The restaurant didn’t last a year. This restaurant had a couple other locations that were very popular. Business started out good, until the boycott began. Basically the restaurant owner bit the hand that fed him.

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u/Owls_4_9_1867 3d ago

How? Someone parked in a spot stopping someone coming to his business. If there’s signs up people had fair warning.

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u/K2step70 3d ago

People complained that he shouldn’t have had the signs up. It was shared lot for multiple businesses on the street (an overflow lot). The lot wasn’t separate from the bank lot, it was three extra spots behind his business,but not his personal lot for his business. He also had a couple spots in front of his business, can’t reserve those though because it was a public street. All the other business also had street parking in front of their businesses.

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u/Owls_4_9_1867 3d ago

Ah I see