Originally Posted by
piper28
I think some of the opinions here seem to follow whether someone's a city person or not. I think people living in the city where you have really dense housing, and are kinda used to the idea that they're not parking in front of their house anyways, and are used to the free for all that street parking is.
Yep. I can rarely get a spot in front of my building; sometimes I'll have to park a block or two away, and my car will sit there for a week or more at a time. Similarly, I have no idea whose cars are parked by my house at any given time. Here street parking is a public resource and nobody has claim to any particular spot.
One exception, though: in neighborhoods with heavy concentrations of bars and nightclubs, residents have pushed to enact permit zones to ensure the streets aren't continually clogged with "foreign" cars. If it's a serious problem in areas near airports, those neighborhoods can work to enact such laws themselves.