How do I keep cars from parking on my lawn?

Question

My lawn extends out to the edge of our street. There is no real curb, so cars free free to park with their tires on the edge of my lawn...I was thinking about putting down some bricks or something to line the edge of the lawn...any suggestions?

Answer 1

I would start with a polite request to not park on the lawn. In person if you are home or a written request on a paper left under the windshield. You could even write a nice note and make copies or print copies from your computer. If that does not have the desired result, edge the yard with something that blends with your home. It could be round wooden posts that stick up 6 inchs or so. It could be bricks half buried at a 45 degree angle so it creates a sort of sawtooth look. If that doesn't work try a short picket fence. After that if the problem continues it is time to call the police and/or have the vehicles towed.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Your lawn may extend to the street, but the city owns the sidewalk area even if there is no sidewalk. You can't have cars towed because you don't own the street. You can't put spikes or nails, that is a trap. At the very least you will be sued for damage to a vehicle, and you could seriously injure somebody out for a walk or a child running along the side of the road. Have you considered making a kerb out of landscape ties or 4x6 lumber? As long as you don't pour concrete, and whatever you put is removable, it should be fine, especially if you get togerther with the neighbours and all do the same thing.

Answer 4

While I wouldn't like cars driving /parking on the grass.. you do not own the part of the lawn beside the road. You can check with the city and see where your property line is to be sure. Or do as you are saying and put bricks, stone or something there to keep them off. As long as the city doesn't say anything you can keep the cars off. Good luck.

Answer 5

You'll need to check and see where the property line lies. In many cases it can be several feet back from the edge of the road. If that's the case, there's little you can legally do to prevent people from parking on the right-of-way even though you generally have to maintain it.

If you do anything to block the right-of-way you can be cited. And of course setting up a booby-trap will only get you into trouble and can even be considered a criminal act.

In my neighborhood, most folks set railroad ties just inside the right-of-way and then tilled over the grassed area and laid gravel. It's looks fairly nice and is pretty easy to keep tidy.

Answer 6

The bricks would be a pretty good idea. Maybe you could put signs up at the edge of your lawn that say "Beware of Dog". Maybe then, they won't even park CLOSE to your yard!

Answer 7

I have seen a lot of people that put decorative posts up around their lawns. You can find pretty ones at Lowe's or Home Depot. Don't give them room to park on it. I don't think bricks would stop them because they could just park on top of them.

Answer 8

I've seen alot of people line their lawns with big rocks. it works, I NEVER see anybody parked on the lawn with rocks lining the edge, hahaha.

and the iron bars sound alittle mean, you just want to stop people form parking on your lawn, you dont want to trick them into ruing their tires.

Answer 9

I grew up in an all-white working classification community and that i had a neighbor who continuously had a minimum of one vehicle parked in his backyard in any respect situations. He purely parked them there while they not handed inspection and used them as a storage for his kit. This, regardless of having ordinances prohibiting unlicensed vehicles being parked everywhere. They have been very effective acquaintances, although, so we by no skill pronounced something approximately it.

Answer 10

Put down something that will damage the tires on the very edge of your lawn. For example, rod iron hammered in so that only a very little bit shows. Who ever tries to park there will hopefully see them and not park onto the grass. And if they do they'll have to buy new tires. I don't believe you would be responsible for the damages since they encrouched on your property.