Local church is deeding two back lots to a non-profit for transitional housing for young adults coming out of foster care, a very vulnerable group. I volunteered a boundary survey with topo, this morning (Saturday) as nobody would be around. Wrong. Track meet across the street. Hundreds of people looking for a parking space and what better than those big cleared dirt lots. I put up a row of traffic cones but that did no good - they drove over them. That's when I gave up. I was lucky to get away with my equipment intact (seriously). Talk about a feeding frenzy and never mind that man in the safety jacket in the middle of the lots. Amazing how many people are all about me, me, me.
Seems to me there was a video game once upon a time that might have resembled your struggle.
There is no one more self-centered than someone attempting to get to a child's activity before that child's 30 seconds to 10 minutes of glory takes place. Well, to be honest, the grand champion of all time might be me trying to get to some polite facility for personal waste elimination before that material heads for my socks.
Figured out the game. It was Frogger. Happened to see the episode last evening of Seinfeld where George has found a big Frogger machine that he considers extremely valuable. The final scene shows him attempting to push it across a street with heavy traffic. The aerial view resembles the Frogger game view.
There were cones, a guy with a safety vest, it's near an event, they figured you're a parking attendant. They drive over the cones, that's bad form by them. You should have charged them $15-20 bucks a car and made back some of your lost time.
Our church has a parking lot next to a "slum lord's" apartment complex. On the west end cars from the apartment complex park in the church lot, and the church being a church has let it slide. This winter being the worst ever got a mountain of show piled on the west end till the room in the parking lot was getting very restricted. People complained that it needed to be removed and the pastor says, "do you know what that would cost". Well, one day dump trucks and equipment showed up and hauled it off, the "slum lord" was seen running out as the last of it was taken shouting "no, no, not that snow". Hey, the crew looked at where the residents were parking. One of the ladies at the church said they should make the apartment residents pay a fee for parking, knowing what dump trucks and backhoes cost I said they just paid for a number or years.
In Portland the de rigueur thing is to build high density housing in the "downtown" area without provision for cars. That is, no parking spaces for the tenant's cars. Everyone is expected to rely on Uber, bicycles, and public transit. I figure that we will soon be frantically building parking garages.
Stupid is as stupid does.
There were cones, a guy with a safety vest, it's near an event, they figured you're a parking attendant. They drive over the cones, that's bad form by them. You should have charged them $15-20 bucks a car and made back some of your lost time.
Our church has a parking lot next to a "slum lord's" apartment complex. On the west end cars from the apartment complex park in the church lot, and the church being a church has let it slide. This winter being the worst ever got a mountain of show piled on the west end till the room in the parking lot was getting very restricted. People complained that it needed to be removed and the pastor says, "do you know what that would cost". Well, one day dump trucks and equipment showed up and hauled it off, the "slum lord" was seen running out as the last of it was taken shouting "no, no, not that snow". Hey, the crew looked at where the residents were parking. One of the ladies at the church said they should make the apartment residents pay a fee for parking, knowing what dump trucks and backhoes cost I said they just paid for a number or years.
we have a bay area slumlord across the street, a duplex. The other duplexes with local owners aren't a problem. The bay area people show up and complain, hey you idiots don't own investment property 3 hours from your house through Bay Area traffic. They don't care about the neighborhood as long as they get their checks.
Our church has a parking lot next to a "slum lord's" apartment complex. On the west end cars from the apartment complex park in the church lot, and the church being a church has let it slide.
The church is well within its rights to charge the slum lord for parking, but he will refuse the opportunity. Then the church will have no recourse but to have the slum tenants cars ticketed and towed, which would lead to a lot of ill feeling.
Perhaps a good stout fence is in order.
