To make my point extra clear:
The city says, if you want to have a block party, fine. We’ll let you close off the street with removable barricades (such as cones; no non-removable barricades, including vehicles) if you get the signatures of the people in the affected houses saying they’re fine not having access to their driveway.
My neighbors said fine, and filed a permit to close 2402-2516, accompanied by the signatures of the residents of 2402-2516.
Since the flyer said that the block party would be from Cross Street X to Cross Street Y, and I live between those two streets and never met those people (and, thus, never signed the required paperwork), and know that the people across the street wouldn’t sign that paperwork under any circumstances, I suspected that something was up & I got my hands on the granted permit application.
When I saw that it was to close 2402-2516, instead of Cross Street X to Cross Street Y, I went on my way and pretty much forgot about it, since I live between the cross streets on the flyer but not the affected houses on the permit.
Then when it came time for the block party today, instead of closing 2402-2516, they closed from Cross Street X to Cross Street Y, meaning 2300-2516, with a vehicle blocking 3/4 of the road & cones blocking the rest.
As I live between 2300 and 2402, that royally pissed me off, since I can’t legally pull out my driveway to do my errands.
I wouldn’t give a fuck if they closed the street where they said they would, and I would’ve moved my schedule around and signed the paper if they did what the city requires and introduced themselves and asked for my approval (again, I can’t say the same of the people across the street, though, so it’s somewhat irrelevant).
But instead, they got the permit, within regulations, then illegally closed the street wherever they damn well wanted. And, yeah, I called the cops because it’s illegal to park a vehicle across more than a lane of traffic and leave cones in the road without approval.
But since the dispatcher told me that all they know is that they’re authorized to close part of the street, rather than exactly where, I doubt anything will come of my call.