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‘Money-grab’: Aucklanders fined for parking in own driveways (www.stuff.co.nz)
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The image in the article shows a car blocking the footpath.

Every person complaining in this article was actually blocking the footpath: because they don't think the kerb crossing is footpath they think it's their driveway, I imagine it's the same for the berm crossing that is actually public property too.

a vehicle parked alongside any part of a kerb crossing provided for a driveway or within 1m of the prolongation of the side of a driveway must be regarded as obstructing entry or exit.

It's endemic where I live, I assume it's the same everywhere.

I do however agree that the council should probably have advertised that they were going to start actually enforcing the rules.

I get it, storage of your vehicle is more important than everyone else's use of the roadway.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah, lawn weeds are frustrating, I compound it by refusing to water the grass when it dries out so its on me (and climate change) in part as well. One consolation is that you can't eat the grass, so in some ways it would be better to rip it all up and turn it to some more productive use anyway :)