Pennsylvania Residents Being Ticketed For Parking In Their Own Driveway

[The Straight Story]

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Some Pittsburghers are being ticketed for parking in their own driveways under an obscure ordinance that requires them to pay $225 for a permit if they wish to park within 30 feet of a street.

City council members say they’ve been getting complaints about the tickets which are issued by the city’s Bureau of Building Inspection.

John Jennings, the bureau’s acting chief, says the agency is caught in the middle.

The bureau doesn’t issue tickets unless residents complain and, often, those complaints aren’t prompted by people who park in driveways but by those who create cement or gravel pads in front of their homes.

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[madinmaryland]

1. *snort* The complaints are probably coming from cigarette smokers who are getting busted

for littering their "neighbor's" yards with smoldering butts.

[The Straight Story]

3. I used to leaf blower to blow the butts off, now I just use an ar-15 and shoot them off the lawn

[madinmaryland]

4. LOL!

[NutmegYankee]

2. BS ordinances like that make me happy to NOT live in a city. nt