Council confirms verge parking legal

Posted on 03-02-2012 22:49 | By 71local

Were have you people been living? Of course you can park on grass verges. I have being doing it for years and have never received a ticket. The reason for this is I park on the GRASS verge, not a footpath, not even part of my wheel on the footpath. I also avoid doing it around the hospital were there are a whole lot of signs prohibiting it, such as around the hospital. I can also not believe that people thought they own the grass verge outside their house. If that,s the case why is do you have a fence between the garden and the verge? And no you do not have to mow it, who said you did? (abridged)

Posted on 02-02-2012 17:35 | By crazysteed

Im sorry but i think TCC are going to have to fine the Parking wombles in that photo im not going to let this rest, and I dont think anyone will want double standards it don’t work and should be one rule for everyone, its bad enough trying to park in downtown Tauranga let alone at the beach and see parking wombles, i have spoken to a number of people who dont go to downtown Tauranga because of the parking wombles

Posted on 02-02-2012 11:51 | By razzy

I was told 8 years ago by the Council that it was legal to park on the grass verge. Immediately after purchasing my property , yellow lines were put along the road, consequently visitors had nowhere to park. Grass verge was the answer.

Posted on 02-02-2012 06:29 | By Jack the Lad

G Really, it is the hypocrisy in question here, you cannot have double standards, and I agree with a previous writer, T.C.C apologise and take the punishment, what is good for the goose

Posted on 01-02-2012 22:29 | By jaznz

While working at Tauranga Hospital I used to park on the grass berm behind the yellow line in Clarke Street. I worked in the old ATR ward. So if the Parking wardens were parking legally then so was I. I want my $65 back please.

Posted on 01-02-2012 20:23 | By jeancraven@slingshot.co.nz

What a can of worms - sort the bylaw out once and for all otherwise parking on the grass will be a free for all and there will be some pretty scruffy looking frontages.

Posted on 01-02-2012 16:03 | By Jitter

If TCC cars are found in future parking anywhere on the grass burm where it is "supposedly" legal then there is a solution. Park two cars legally one in front and one behind the TCC car/s so close that it/they cannot move forwards or backwards. Childish I know but aren’t TCC staff being childish also ? If people have been ticketed in the past for parking legally on a grass burm then TCC parking staff have also been childish, over zealous and officious. Sounds like another easy revenue collecting excercise to me. You could always let all their tyres down !!! Ooops, then you would get a ticket.

Posted on 01-02-2012 14:36 | By patricia1955

Hey beware the council will only mow it if you dont when its a foot high and considered a fire hazard!!! We mowed council verge for 30 years. The corner verge was bigger than our own lawn. They did come to the party eventually...30 years later and mowed it when they did the park over the road. Know many a person who has had a ticket for parking on a grassed verge too. Council might have a few court appearances this year.

Posted on 01-02-2012 13:40 | By xenasdad

I mow the uphill sloping grass berm in front of our house and keep it neat. Yobbos visiting nearby house park on it even when soft, and leave bare earth wheel spin gouges metres long as they drive back to the road at the next driveway. For years I have filled in the ruts and resown the grass at my own expense, sometimes only months apart. Thank you TCC group manager of customer services and environmental monitoring Peter Frawley for giving TCC public blessing to these vandals. Can I now ask TCC to come and mow and repair THEIR constantly damaged berm. I also seem to remember a couple of years ago when a whole new raft of traffic regulations came in (one November I think), that one of them provided a fine of $43 for parking on a grassed surface!!!!! I clearly remember pointing this out to occupants of the house the yobbos were visiting.

Posted on 01-02-2012 11:11 | By The Sage

The Council have really opened this up for the public to park where they shouldn’t. Can’t have one rule for them and another for everyone else. Just fall on your sword I say.

Posted on 01-02-2012 11:06 | By Gee Really

I’m no apologist for Council and believe they should be accountable when they are wrong. But a bit of balance is required here. In Tauranga it seems you are allowed to park on grass verges, unless signposted. Not sure who put the bollards in that are shown on the photo. Of course you aren’t permitted to park on footpaths. Some people who post here should engage their brains a little before they fire off. Some look libellous to me. Sure it seems a silly place to park and it seems silly to need 2 cars, but if it’s not illegal what’s the real gripe? Just council bashing for the sake of it, which means there’s less impact when it’s a justifiable complaint?

Posted on 01-02-2012 10:02 | By wonkidonki

This is just rubbish, TCC once again you have tarnished your reputation. Instead of just admitting you made a mistake you always lie to your rate payers !! DISGUSTING.

Posted on 01-02-2012 09:51 | By charob

so every grass verge will have cars parked on it especially at the mount. So what does this mean. angry residense, what about parking on grass verge and part of the foot path. Have that problem in greerton along cameron road. saw an elderly lady trying to get past a car parked like this the other day on her mobile wheel chair and had to go on the grass to get past..There was plenty of parking in the business car park that they parked outside. Perhapes the entrance was to difficult. hahahha common drivers of these cars use your common sense. foot paths for walking and wheel chairs NOT to park on.

Posted on 31-01-2012 20:50 | By MikkiT

You didn’t think that one through did you TCC? Some scrambling to put something in the Bylaws now is there??

Posted on 31-01-2012 20:29 | By festino lente

Ridiculous. This is a massive double standard. Do we really want every mount verge with cars on it every time the mount gets busy. Why on earth be so arrogant about it. Just cop the flak, apolgise, and move on. Advising all that verges are open slather, is simply out of control

Posted on 31-01-2012 19:00 | By Darth_Vader

If the council advise that it is not illegal to park on the grass berm as long as no signage is present advising parking not permitted ... then I guess the council may be busy next moth in court when all those that have been ticketed for legally parking on the grass berm take the council to court to get their fines reversed and refunded the money’s they have paid in fines to the council

Posted on 31-01-2012 17:50 | By R1Squid

Of fish has been opened. I hope that we all shall be able to abide by the smell!

Posted on 31-01-2012 17:29 | By Jack the Lad

We can save the ratepayers thousands, by not having to build more car parks, the answer is there for all to see, plant more grass,

Posted on 31-01-2012 17:24 | By Demandthetruth

I was one of many victims of TCC parking wardens on the grass verge opposite the Hospital lower parking area. Thre was an event on at the Historical Village and many of us parked on the verge by the trees & drain. We all got ticketed! THIS was totally unwarranted and unreasonable - guess what we did not get off

Posted on 31-01-2012 17:07 | By charob

so all grass verges are council owned. woooooooooooope i dont have to mow the big pice of grass out the front. i own a corner section. they can mow it for me.......

Posted on 31-01-2012 17:02 | By dgk

I’ll show this to one of my neighbours who keeps threatening to get my car towed when I park on the grass verge outside their place.