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Can the City enforce home owners to black top parking areas in the back of their home? I heard through the grapevine that a lady who owns some buildings on Lake and County received a letter to that effect. Why should the City be concerned about the back of her property?
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i don't know exactly about the back of your property verses the front, but the city can enforce the amount/square footage of the parking area. i was told it could not be more than 40% of the available space. i'm sure they have something on the books.
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There's grass on the front lawn but not in the back where the Tenants park.
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There's an ordinance that you can't park on soft surfaces like grass or dirt.
Go figure!
I think that the city and the sanitation district made an agreement many years ago that the city would force homeowners to blacktop their drives and parking pads, so that he NSD could then tax them for water run off into the sewers based on a calculation of the square footage of the surface of the driveway or parking area that is hard topped.
This is based on the permit dimensions shown on the permit which has to be approved by the city.
The city then sends that information to NSD and they add it to your tax bill and the city gets the permit fee.
