Parking Ticket in Glenbrooke = $110.00
GLENBROOKE NEIGHBORS
By Mary Weatherill.
Now we all know we are supposed to park our cars in our garages. CCR’s Section 8.09 (a through f).
I would like you all to look down your streets and note where the fire hydrants are located. Why you ask? One of our residents informed me yesterday that a visitor to her home had parked in front of her home overnight Saturday evening to Sunday morning. To her shock and surprise, there was a ticket on the vehicle for parking in a hydrant zone when she went to her car on Sunday morning.
Have you looked down your street yet? The ticket was for $110.00. That’s a lot of money for not noticing a hydrant. This meant that a Police Officer came through our neighborhood at night and wrote this ticket. Have you looked yet?
This same spot has been used by others during the daytime—luck of timing. How many of us have gone to neighbors homes, day or night, for a get together—have you noticed the hydrant and given it the proper clearance? I’m not sure I have always been aware myself—I will in the future. For those of you who live on the corner where the hydrant is in your yard you might look at the red zone marked on the corner of Del Webb and Hatherton and Del Webb and Caldon. Those residents have little or no parking available in front of their homes. Some of you have the same sort of hydrant location on your lot.
Just something to think about before any more of us gets a ticket.
Mary
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Believe it! Paul got 'one' 2 yrs. ago parked by our daughter's home. You are suppose to be 15 ft. from the hydrant. She lives in a gated community so the police patrol there also.
The curbs should be painted red so we can see the 15' in either direction. I have one between my house and my neighbors and people park there all the time. I tried to find out how far away a person should be but received no response from the fire dept or police dept. I guess I have to go out and measure so I can tell my guests where to park.
I think they could paint the fire hydrants too, they look awful. Rust color is not very attractive, I wonder if the Design Review Committee could send one of those letters to the fire dept asking them to take better care of their hydrants.
Great idea, Kathy.... Go out and paint your flowers on the hydrant!
Check out the fire hydrants here
I just called CSD to get some informaton about the curbs being painted red and learned from Fire Prevention:
1) There is no law that says they must be painted red in front of hydrants
2) Red curbs are actually fire equipment parking zones- not marking hydrant location.
3) The developer would have had to paint the curbs at some point and then the HOA would have to maintain them.
4) Vehicles need to be at least 15 feet from fire hydrants.
5) The water department is in charge of the hydrants.
So, you learn something everyday and I want to thank again, the nice lady at fire prevention (sorry, I forgot to get her name).