Why Parking On Your Lawn In Loudoun Could Cost You…
The Loudoun Board of Supervisors may follow Fairfax and Prince William Counties in making it illegal to leave cars parked on your front lawn.
The reason: it looks bad.
Scott York, Loudoun Board Chairman says, “It brings down property values and adds to neighborhood problems caused by crowding of homes and the recent spate of foreclosures.”
Under the proposal, lots with 36,000 square feet (the 6 homes that have that much, lol) or less would be prohibited from parking on unpaved sections of their front yards. They also couldn’t pave over 30% of their front yard to comply with the ordinance.
The truth is that most communities that have this problem do not have an HOA. Most HOA’s would never allow this. I agree that it looks bad. The question becomes should the government be able to control where we park on our land?
Let me know what you think…
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Parking on the lawn is trashy! Glad to hear someone is working to retain the neighborhood look and value.
Jonathan – I agree with Susan, it just looks trashy. I notice in my town the neighborhoods with the most cars including parked in the yard also have the most rentals.
Susan and Ashley…
This is really a tough call. I think it looks bad also. I’m just not sure the gov should be able to fine someone for it. Sorry. I am just never a fan of more gov control.
Have to go with Jon here, I don’t want authorities telling anyone what to do on their private property. On the other hand if you bought into a HOA, you can’t then complain about the rules you knew were there. A HOA is a nice concept and sometimes needed but are reminiscent of unions to a point in over promising and under delivering. No cars on the lawn equal a safer neighborhood? A shallow, superficial and false sense of security if I ever heard one.