Parking on other people's lawns and / or obstructing traffic

Invest in some wheel clamps :D Could become quite profitable :)
On a more serious note, the Rock garden idea should work, it's done all over JHB outside complex's where the lawn is technically Municipality grounds.

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Originally Posted by Sinshroud

Hi guys, I'm not exactly where the right place to post this is, but for about the past 2 years now we have been having serious problems with people parking on our front garden lawns.

We live in a fairly residential area in Table View with 2 big office buildings right next door. The problem is that the one office building catered very little parking for their staff. There is a tiny underground parking lot for top-management and then space for like 8 cars outside on their property.

They need much more parking though, and every day about 4-8 of their staff park on our front lawns. If they not parking on our lawns then they double park in the road (on both sides) so that barely one can can even get through at a time, let alone two.

1) There is a pre-school creche about 2 houses down and the road corners are very tight. Almost every day I see incidents that VERY close become accidents because you can't see around the corners due to cars parking right on the edge. It's putting these children, their family and my family in danger on a daily basis.

2) The cars parking on our grass EVERY day, 9-5 is killing our grass. We have given up trying to get it look nice because it's just turning into brown dry grass with a lot of sand.

3) Our garden services can't cut our front lawn grass, and it's very frustrating. Our garden services don't always come on the same day so we can't say to the people don't park on our grass on Wednesdays because otherwise we can't have our grass cut.

4) We can barely get in and out of our front drive way. My mother works from home and frequently has people coming to pick up products or drop stuff off. It's extremely dangerous reversing out of the drive way because the cars on either side block your view completely and it's also a very busy road so cars are moving quickly.

First we tried leaving notes on the cars windshields. Starting from subtle things like if they parked on the road instead of on our grass we would say "Thanks very much for not parking on our grass this time, much appreciated". We have tried the straight out "Don't park on our grass, it's dangerous and we can't cut our lawn". We have tried going out and talking to them and asking them not to park there. We have tried emailing the owner of the offices next door and he keeps saying that he has asked his staff not to park on our grass.

I want to know is this kind of thing illegal? Can we complain to the municipality or the police about it? I'm so tempted to go put spikes or something in the grass so their tyres burst when driving over the grass to park, but I don't want to endanger pedestrians walking by.

We use to have the exact same problems too until we complained to the neighbours about their friends on our lawn. Since then our grass has grown nicely. They also had a habit of parking in front or accross from our garage blocking the door so couldn't turn in etc.

So if you know which place the people are visiting tell the people who they visiting to tell them to park somewhere else or you may fine or tow them away at their expense.

Dont do anything drastic, go the calm, cool and collected route without spiking tires, scraping paint etc.

Currently we got neighbours who speed up the road at 80 - 100km/h where my cats normally stroll and wish I could catch them before they vanish to complain.

Luckily my current cats have had no problems, but one of my cats 2 years ago got hit by a car in same street yet they never contacted me to apologise, although I am tempted to put a speed limit sign for 30-40 or children/animals at play sign up.

You could put a towaway sign or no parking sign in front of your lawn somewhere :D

Get the municipality involved, also double check if it is zoned correctly commercial zones should have sufficient areas to park and it's not up to you to sort it out it's up to the offices that are the issue.