Looks like the van is just barely past the curb cut! Not really blocking the driveway. Full parking spots can be really hard to find at certain times in certain neighborhoods, especially for larger vehicles. Do you really want more people endlessly circling your block, adding to congestion and pollution, taking time and reducing productivity, because they can't find a good enough place to park?

Please think hard before reporting. Is this vehicle actually causing any serious problem? Ask yourself what if it were you or a friend or family member of yours parked there longer than usual for whatever reason? How would you want the situation handled for you or them?

It could belong to a person who's already just holding it together. Getting hit with a parking ticket or worse an expensive tow could be the thing that pushes them over the edge.

https://www.aclusocal.org/en/news/california-pushing-people-deeper-poverty-towing-their-cars-non-safety-reasons

https://talkpoverty.org/2020/03/16/san-francisco-tows-cars-homeless/index.html

Even an expensive vehicle may belong to someone who is “car rich” but cash poor. Luxury cars getting repossessed because the owners become unable to make the payments on them is a real phenomenon:

https://eightify.app/summary/economy-and-finance/luxury-car-repossession-crisis-signals-economic-downturn

I could've easily gotten out of that driveway Mark, and I suspect you could have as well. Maybe by driving over the curb on the other side a little, but there's a wide sidewalk and lots of room to maneuver.

I understand how it would be annoying to have to do that, like it's annoying when someone cuts you off in traffic, but this kind of thing shouldn't rise to the level of trying to sic government on someone and require them to pay an expensive ticket or even more expensive tow.

We all ned to have a little more patience with others, and not be so quick to try to escalate things into the legal realm. By the time a ticket or tow takes place, your immediate need to use the driveway will probably have passed, and so it's not really accomplishing anything except to punish someone, and seeking to punish your neighbors just encourages @#$%-for-tat retaliation, makes people trust each other less, and degrades civic harmony for everyone.

"Laws are laws"? I really don't think you want to be cited or persecuted every time you break a law – going a few miles over the speed limit, not coming to a complete stop before making a right turn, not collecting taxes when you have a garage or sidewalk sale, putting up fliers without a permit, having overgrown bushes on your property, or whatever.

Most people break laws every day without even realizing it, because there are so many laws on the books. And The Law™ is not always just, right, or fairly and consistently enforced either. Just look at the history of things like slavery, women being denied the right to vote and own property, gays being denied legal equality, etc.

As Martin Luther King said...