2017-02-01 Hearing Transcript - County Council Initiated Bill 256

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CHANG: her garage is a two -car garage. CLARKSON: Okay. CHANG: But then she has a long driveway where she puts her other cars. CLARKSON: Okay CHANG: So she owns five vehicles, but when she rents out her rooms, her vehicles, her own vehicles is [sic] parked outside, but sometimes her own vehicles are outside for like a month. Sometimes a week, more than a week. CLARKSON: But, I'm just trying to make, make it clear in my mind, if she didn't have any renters, she could park four cars on her property. SONOGNINL No, what it, what it is, on the average, she usually has at least, I would say, four or five couples, or some with children, so in order for her to get those cars, five or six cars in that parking area, she parks her cars and the extra that she can't fit in there on public parking, you see. CLARKSON: Okay. No, so that answers my question. She, even if we adopted, even if the Council adopted this language, she would be in compliance if she can park five or six cars on her property. So, I just wanted to point that out SONOGNINL Right, okay— CLARKSON: because although I sympathize SONOGNINI: Right— CLARKSON: there's apparently no law that prevents people from owning as many cars as they want SONOGNINI: Right— CLARKSON: —and parking them all over the neighborhood. SONOGNINL Well, that's— CLARKSON: But SONOGNINL that, but the problem we're having is she's not respecting the law as far as parking it parallel with the road or where the parkI had to go through the Act of Congress to get the State, City & County, and the Planning Department, and the Tax Department to get the city to put parallel parking, so now that we have parallel parking, she parks four of her cars on EXHIBIT B 9