[nunez]

my absolute biggest pet peeve about living in "modern" suburbs and a large contributing factor behind why i wanted to (and eventually did) leave them.

imagine having the only well-maintained sidewalk for a good ways out be blocked by cars whose owners have 2+ car garages!

[dnnddidiej]

Blocking the sidewalk should be fineable?

[dboreham]

Such rules are often not enforced.

[rootusrootus]

In my experience, it's often up to the people in the neighborhood to decide. One of my neighbors down the street a number of years ago was militant about it. Code Enforcement does not routinely drive our streets looking for violations, but if someone blocked a sidewalk, parked facing the wrong way on the street, etc, Code Enforcement would magically appear to give them a ticket. Pretty sure this neighbor had them on speed dial.

[dnnddidiej]

I am sure social networks (the non tech kind) help here. Maybe they both play golf or coach each other's kids.

[nunez]

In an ideal world where scrolling and driving would _actually_ be a punishable offense, sure!

In reality: moving away solved the problem.

Note: I grew up in an older (1940s) suburb with a town square that was actually walkable. This problem didn’t exist there. Mostly because the garage was detached and further back from houses, so you had your own proper driveway to park your car onto.