So, today I went to put the garbage out at the curb, only to discover that there was a car parked in front of my house, blocking about two feet of my driveway.
I live on a court. The court has houses on it with wedge shaped lots, with the narrow edge of the wedge at the front where the road is, and then widening to the back yards. In front of my house there is a section of curb about 10 or 12 ft wide between my and my left hand neighbour's driveway. Every once in a while someone decides that this is the perfect place to park their car, and then they block about a third of my (or my neighbour's) driveway. The neighbour on my right hand side has a driveway that meets my driveway, and usually parks his vehicle at the bottom of his driveway close to where the two driveways meet.
The upshot of this is that when my driveway is blocked by someone parking in front of my house, it's extremely difficult for my wife to maneuver the car out in the morning.
I've called traffic enforcement a couple times, and they'll come out within 3-4 hours to write a ticket. But they require that I be there when they're writing the ticket. This doesn't really work on weekdays when I work. Extra annoying is that today was garbage day, and the car was blocking where I put our garbage bins out.
What is the best resolution to this problem?
Call a tow truck. Preferably one that will not charge you, but charge the owner of the car.
I used to live in an apartment building with assigned parking and packed street parking. There was one apt in the 4 apt unit that had one parking space but 3 cars. Often, one of them would park in the back of the lot. Now, I could still back out if they did that. But sometimes, a second person would park there, effectively blocking me in. I went to work at 7 am. I called the landlord, they called the tow truck. When they heard the truck coming there would be a lot of swearing.
Now, I'm not a bad guy - if they had only left a note on their car or mine (hey, we are in Unit B, knock on door if you need to leave - fine).
The other option is to leave a nice note on the car, that we cannot pull out.
That has worked in my current house - where we live on a hill and a curve. There are usually 3 large trucks/ SUVs who love the spot in front of my house because it's big. Unfortunately, when you drive a small car (Corolla or Civic), you cannot see to pull out. We had one car totaled that way and the Civic had $6500 of damage. So a few times, when a new large SUV parks there, I put a nice note. "Hey, we can't see to pull out when you park here, and we've had one car totaled with our child in the car, can you please park elsewhere?" It worked.
Sometimes though, I just park there myself.
If the nice note doesn't work, then a nasty one or tow truck.