Mayor Greg Ballard's decision to illegally appropriate hundreds of valuable public parking spaces all over the City of Indianapolis for Blue Indy's exclusive, for-profit use is now turning neighbor against neighbor. In the Old Northside neighborhood, Blue Indy has consumed dozens of what had been free, on-street public parking for area residents. That's forced some residents, most of whom are apartment dwellers, to find new public parking further away from where they live. Single family homeowners are taking matters into their own hands and issuing faux warning tickets to motorists parking in front of their homes threatening to have their cars towed.
The homeowners are citing a city ordinance prohibiting motorists from parking for more than 6 hours at a time in public parking spaces abutting a homeowner's residence without the consent of the impacted homeowner or tenant. "[H]omeowners proximate to Englewood Lofts have
been waging a battle of bullying and 'faux police' parking tickets to
intimidate and force residents away from the curbs in front of these homes and 'their' parking spaces," neighborhood activist Chas Navarra tells Advance Indiana.
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I guess my question is, will a tow driver come and hook someone's car like that??? If it isn't your car and there is no prior agreement with the company the tow company could open themselves up to exposure.
If a car is LEGALLY parked, then no one should be towing a car.
My question is, how will someone's house look with boards over those two large picture windows?
Careful when you tow cars. All bets are off, and everything is fair game.
Village Management is the agent for Englewood Lofts and has consistently made known that residents with motor vehicles can easily obtain an Englewood Lofts Parking Permit for the ten space lot across the street and across one lot west of the apartment building.
On July 10, 2015, apartment residents received a letter stating that Englewood Lofts executives with Village Management were advised if residents have an Englewood Lofts parking pass affixed to their [residents'] windshields, these residents' vehicles CANNOT be reported as abandoned as thie sticker identifies the vehicles as belonging to a bona fide resident of the neighborhood. Therefore, the vehicles owned by renters of the area CANNOT be towed simply for parking in front of someone's owned home.
The men living in the house immediately south of Englewood Lofts creating the unwarranted, unneighborly stink may have purchased their home but their deed did not include the street in front of the place.
What these particular homeowners never tell anyone is that they have a garage and [I am told] a new parking pad at the east end of their home's rear yard and which is accessed by an alley.
We have some neighbors in Lockerbie who don't like residents with neighborhood parking permits parked in front of their homes even with the stickers in their windows. You're right, Chas. They can't claim ownership of that parking space in front of their house. If you don't have a sticker though, look out. You will get ticketed, and you can be towed.
Indy consumes itself in an effort to be cool. This is actually becoming sort of fun, like Kabuki theatre. It sure as heck beats anything on cable.
I guess this is the question that needs to be added to list when looking at purchasing a home now?
I was eating at a open aire downtown restaurant this evening noticed an Indy Blue car at the light, told my friends look, there is one of those corrupt Indy Blue cars, just then the driver picked his nose and wiped it on the steering wheel, we all yelled his new nickname: bugger!! it made our evening, for the next people who rent that car will get an unwanted gift!
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