My neighbor is putting in a garden and work trucks are parking in a no parking zone, is this legal for any reason?

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My neighbor is putting in a garden and work trucks are parking in a no parking zone, is this legal for any reason?

Trucks are parked in front of my house
in a clearly labeled no parking zone. It
is not just a two minute load or unload,
they work all day long. If I call the
police is their any reason they wouldn’t
be asked to move? I called the other day
and nothing happened.

Asked on May 11, 2018 under General Practice, Michigan

Answers:

SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney

Answered 5 years ago | Contributor

Towns or cities have the right to waive (or put on hold) enforcement parking regulations for a good cause, such as to facilitate construction; you also often see this done on holidays (to make more parking available for shopping). Also, police have a certain amount of inherent discretion or judgment about what traffic and parking offenses they enforce and when they give tickets. (For example, you've undoubtedly seen police not ticket people who are breaking the speed limit.) So it is likely that either the neighbor or their contractor called and asked for permission to park here for the duration, or simply that the police are taking it on themselves to not enforce the no parking as a courtesy to a resident (your neighbor) while construction is obviously being done. You don't really have any practical mechanism to force the town to enforce it's own parking rules if they are refusing to.


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