In Walnut Creek (this happened in Clayton, too, off Regency Drive), neighbors are frustrated with the amount of people parking on the public street in order to gain access to and use the nearby open space.
QUESTION: If a person lives near the entrance to a mountain, or a popular open space such as Shell Ridge, do you think they have any room to complain about traffic, or do you think they should just deal with it since they moved into the house knowing they were moving near the entrance to an open space?
Talk about it.
They can complain all they want. Homeowners don’t own the public streets. Anyone can park on a public street. If the neighbors are so annoyed, I can see why they went the parking permit route. If I lived there, I’d get sick of all the cars too.
Werent the residents of Clayton near the entrance to the mt diablo trail complaining about the hikers parking in front of their houses? Where do you expect them to park? You dont own the sidewalks. Clayton residents just love whining about every little inconvenience. Oh heavens!
Deal with it because it is a public space. But the city could impose 2-4 hours parking limit for non residents around the entrances to be fair to the homeowners and visitors.
They have a right to complain – ie, 1st Amendment Freedom of Speech – but should it be a surprise? No
Why not? Complain all you want, just not to me, because, in general, I don’t want to hear it (unless you can gripe in an amusing fashion..).
I would guess the trail heads where there when most people baught their house. Just like living near a park or school.
I park in the neighhoods because the parking lots are hight thief areas. I do try and be respectful of those living there.
People using those trail heads need to be respectful of the home owners. Nobody wants to clean up someone else’s mess. Even if it is a public street…
It depends on when they moved there. If they moved there before the entrance was built,
then they are entitled to make a big stink about it. If they moved in and were aware of the entrance, and knew about people parking on their street, then tuff luck. It at all possible,
maybe they can reach some kind of compromise with the city and/or the park dept. and designate a parking area. I have a friend that’s disabled, and she beat the parking problem
by having the city paint the curb in front of her house blue. All she had to do was fill out a
form and present them with her handicap placard.
Yeah…. one of those rubs…. You knew what you were moving into “possibly moved there for it” so that is that (legacy owners “prior to the parks” exempted here) and we don’t own the streets. This is no different then when your next door neighbor builds an ADU (you did not protest the city prior) and they keep parking in front of your house “although I am not a gentle person here”. Sucks, petition the city to red curb “might work”. Sucks and maybe introduce a bill that would require parking at trailheads….likely impossible.
I remember a couple years ago when I lived in Clayton a resident whose backyard fence bordered the State Park complained because a mountain lion was drinking out of her pool. LoL! What a Karen.
It reminds me of people who move to Anaheim and upset at traffic and loud noise (fireworks) coming from Disneyland. It goes with the territory. I grew up near the entrance to a popular regional park with a huge picnic area. Summer , lots of parking chaos and drunk people wandering around but …it wasn’t a problem.
They can complain all they want, but it’s going to be hard to change things.
We have lived in our little Court 45 years.
At the beginning there were no cars parked on the Court.
Now almost everyone has 3 to 4 vehicles, …. and we are packed.
We are lucky, … we have a 112ft long driveway, so no street parking.
Plus, neighbors on the Street are parking here too, to protect their vehicles.
Too many cars were getting hit and run damage.
Streets here are narrow and through traffic doesn’t work well with parked cars.
I don’t understand the people who buy next to an airport & then complain about the noise. The one’s parking near the trailheads needs to be respectful to the neighborhood, no trash left behind.
If the open space was there when you move in, then you can only complain to yourself. You chose to move there! Maybe you didn’t think the parking issue would be a problem, but then again, you chose to live there.
The same goes for people who complain about the noise at their neighboring airport.
I don’t know, from the sound of things, it has gotten ridiculous because of social media which is bringing in far more people than would typically use the open space. People trampling over nature and making neighborhoods impassable for their precious photo for the gram is a different animal.
Yes, people should complain about traffic in their neighborhoods, as long as they lived in their neighborhood prior to the open space entrance being in their neighborhood, and all residents in those neighborhoods should complain, if those accessing neighborhood entrances to open space if are traveling recklessly in the neighborhood. Where access to open space trails exist, then parking on the open space property should also be provided.
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The same is true for people who purchase a home next to a commercial property which is noisy or people who purchase a home near a school. They should complain, if they purchased their home prior to the noisy commercial property being built, and they should complain if they lived in the area prior to a school being built or if they lived in the area when kids still walked or rode their bikes to school instead of being chauffeured to school by their parents, and all residents near a school should complain about the speeding and reckless manner in which parents travel through neighborhoods when dropping off and picking up their children from school.
MOVE ALREADY!!!! THE BAY AREA IS OVER CROWDED AND OVER PRICED. IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT, LEAVE. BE GRATEFUL YOU BOUGHT A HOME IN THE 70’S FOR $50K AND CAN NOW SELL IT FOR OVER A MILLION…SEEMS FAIR, RIGHT?! =(
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