How to park politely.

This is probably the least ideal because the red & teal cars have encroached on the boundary of the center space causing the maneuver to use the center spot to be accessible to only tiny cars.

A slight spin of the red car, which is completely inside the box, has the front out far enough to waste space along the lawn’s edge and makes it harder for two cars to pass each other on the narrow roadway.

Here the teal car has encroached on the turn area for the roadway and the red car put the driver’s side near the lawn also forcing them to encroach on the turn area for the roadway.

In this instance, the orange pick-up truck has backed up past the parking spot and sits over the sidewalk. This encroachment doesn’t consider pedestrians (or their pets, or in the winter the service person that clears our sidewalks).

Sidewalks are a safety device for walking. See also By-Laws 7.06., and encroachment is prohibited by NYS law.

Parking on the end line gives extra space to the car that parks next to the red service van here, but that one car’s gain is the loss of cornering space for all vehicles that make the right turn onto the roadway for Building 4 (units #58 – 76).

Similarly, here the red service van has not entered the parking spot fully. Leaving extra space in front of it has taken away extra space behind it where many cars navigate the right turn.

Here the subtle difference is the purple sports car took the normal spot even though it’s a shorter vehicle than the black and grey pickup truck which was forced to choose the parallel style parking.

Smaller cars should prefer parallel parking spots over standard parking spaces.

It might look like there’s a lot wrong here but theirs just two impolite positionings here.

The orange sports car has encroached doubly into the roadway’s turn area; the front is over the end line and its driver decided to leave space to exit the vehicle onto the pavement instead of the lawn.

The silver pick-up truck has also left space to exit onto the pavement but has now prevented the grey & black pick-up truck from leaving its place.

In this minor variation, the red car did not go fully into the driveway of 116 and is encroaching on the sidewalk.

See also By-Laws 7.06., and encroachment is prohibited by NYS law.

In this instance, the black SUV has no yellow line to guide them into alignment but has encroached on the egress of the teal car as well as any vehicle in the garage of unit 118.

It’s likely the teal car can exit without damaging the black SUV or the orange sports car, but it is impolite positioning.

Similar to the last situation the black SUV came into the space a bit carelessly and has unnecessarily encroached on the egress of cars parked at unit 118.