Dear Editor,
Re: Letter “Town should consider complainer a nuisance”
Although I do understand Shelley Taylor’s point, I am sympathetic to the so-called “nuisance complainer.”
What Shelley fails to see is that the parking of her and/or her husband’s vehicles on the street in front of her own house takes away a parking spot for visiting friends of hers and her neighbours. If every homeowner would park their vehicles on their property (i.e. driveway or better yet the garage — that’s what they are for) then our streets would be free of so many parked cars, which inhibits visitors from parking.
In my cul-du-sac we have three parking sports to be shared with five houses. If we all parked our own vehicles there all the time, where would everyone’s guests park? One neighbour (who recently moved, fortunately) parked his truck in front of his house every night after work limiting the rest of us to the two remaining spots for guest parking.
So you see Shelly, there is a certain logic to the bylaws. It is called “consideration for others.”
Now, if we could just get the town planners to stop approving developments that have little or no guest parking...
S.R. Watkins
Okotoks
