You can't walk around the back side of the car without going into the street. They park it so that the car extends all the way across the sidewalk. It is more than a slight inconvenience. It is a safety issue, and it directly breaks the rules specified online by the city of Raleigh: https://www.raleighnc.gov/home/content/PWksParkingMgmt/Articles/ParkingFactsFaqs.html

There is a reason these rules exist and are spelled out online. I don't see how reporting this via SeeClickFix is costing anybody anything. It's not like I called the police about it.

Someone from the City is going to have to investigate. And someone from the City is spending time reading this ... that takes taxpayer money. Seems to me that if a child can safely cross a street that an adult should be able to walk around a car without getting run over. And I'm very familiar with traffic. I live on Wade Avenue. And if I complained about the dozens of traffic violations and ordinance violations that I see every day I wouldn't have time to do anything else. This isn't a perfect world. Most people have learned to adapt and accept a minor inconvenience here and there.

On what authority are you closing this issue? What gives you the right to deem it as a minor inconvenience. If you'd look at the issue in the list when it's open, you'd see that people are voting for it. Leave the issue open and let somebody from the city of Raleigh tell me that they can or can not do anything about it.

It requires no authority other than being a taxpayer. I have the "Option" to express my opinion whether or not I feel that the issue should remain Opened or be Closed. I see it as being a waste of time and money and my opinion is that it should be Closed. The City gives me that option.

Here is the city ordinance, and it is there for a reason. Public safety. People walk their kids to school along these sidewalks, including this very morning. The OP was within their right to report, and the city should investigate.

Sec. 11-2171. - PARKING PROHIBITED IN CERTAIN PLACES.
Designated places.
No person shall stop, stand or park a motor vehicle (attended or unattended) except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traffic-control device in any of the following places:

(1) On a sidewalk , in the area between the roadway and the sidewalk , in the area between the right-of-way line and the roadway or in the median area of a divided roadway .

If you are abusing SeeClickFix to close reports that are indeed active and reasonable to report per city code, perhaps the city should restrict your option to close.

The option is there for a reason but you go right ahead and keep wasting my taxpayer dollars. Have at it. And don't get run over the next time you have to step from a sidewalk to a street.

I've read the Raleigh City Code of Ordinances from cover to cover and have had more communication with the policy analyst than I care to recall and if you look hard enough you can find three or four violations on every neighborhood block. But most people choose to move on with their lives. If people wouldn't complain about every inconvenience they encounter maybe the city would have enough money in the budget to hire a few additional police officers to help deal with the drug dealing and shootings on Kent Road and Western Blvd. Maybe you should walk through there one night, and if you happen to make it back home you'll have some legitimate complaints.

Mose, I’m not sure how you being a tax payer gives you unilateral right to decide this issue. Presumably we’re all tax payers and we need to give everyone a chance to weigh in. Indeed, the only fair way to resolve this would be to hold a vote among all Raleigh residents: Should the homeowner move their car out of the right of way? The percentage of nays would represent the percentage of that segment of sidewalk they can block.

Mose is also not thinking about anyone with a mobility issue (using a walker, wheelchair or someone visually impared) that may want to use this sidewalk and have serious issues because of the blockage. Those people are taxpayers too and have just as much right to use the sidewalk unobstructed as anyone else.

Why not just knock on their door? That's what my neighbors do. I'm sure they'll understand, especially coming from the disabled perspective.

Mose understands the impaired. My Mom can no longer make it into her wheel chair from her bed and she's 90% deaf and blind. If I had been strolling along there with her in her chair I would have rolled her straight to their front door and given them some visual reinforcement to the problem.

Thoughts?

Get a room

Wish I had thought of that.

It looks like they have put their boat into winter storage freeing up enough room that they can pull both cars all the way into the driveway.

And none of the concerned citizens above bothered to simply knock on their door and speak with the owner about the problem. I suggested that above. Did anyone follow through? Anyone ?? You'd rather sit behind a keyboard and complain anonymously rather than speak with another person face to face. That's the way we did things 40, 50, 60 years ago. And it worked. The keyboard method obviously didn't work.

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SeeClickFix has notified me that this issue has been outstanding for 60 days and suggests that I close it, so that's what I'm doing.

Please make it such that only the City of Raleigh may close tickets - there's lots of in-fighting on some of these tickets and that seems counterproductive. Thank you.

I agree with @dannylevenson. It doesn't "take taxpayer money" for someone from the city to acknowledge an issue. That is what this site is built for - and if you see issues along Wade Ave. it would be helpful to report as Wade Ave. is certainly a mess. Trying to enforce a "this is how we did things 30 years ago" attitude is not helpful.

Where do you think the money came from to build this site ??? The Internet Fairy ??? And who pays the people that monitor this site, Tax Payers. ................... Some people just have far far too much time on their hands. I LIVE on Wade Avenue. I can see the "bush" from my front window. It is not out into the flow of traffic. No one swerves to avoid it. And I suspect that the very few people complaining about it are the only ones that have noticed it. smh

The City has asked that the issue be Closed. So leave it closed.

Thanks for fixing this request!

Someone from the City please tell me how to stop the notices from this site from being sent to my mail box. The inane complaints and comments are out of control. See-Click-Fix was a terrible idea.

You can go to your profile preferences and adjust the auto email settings - and you can take yourself off of the site if you find it unhelpful. If the site didn't exist, citizens would call in complaints, so you cannot solely control what is reported, sorry.

Instead of calling in complaints they wouldn't create problems where there are none. A car on a sidewalk. A bush growing over the gutter. Calling the police when a dog poops on a sidewalk. Complaining when a car parks on the street in front of their home. These became problems only after someone created outlets like this one for people who spend their time looking for things to complain about. This site used to be a great way to report potholes, broken sidewalks ... real hazards. Now City staffers have to spend taxpayer money investigating minor inconveniences, annoyances, because citizens can complain with anonymity behind the safety of their keyboards. And STILL, after all of this time I would bet that not one single person that complained about the car on the sidewalk simply knocked on the door and talked to the homeowner. SEE-WHINE-WASTE.