If you think this can't possibly happen because it just seems too far out there, think again.........it can and has happened. The powers that be can pass any law they see fit, "for the good of the Community."

When I moved to Cape Coral Florida in about 1985 I had a van. Not a work van but a nice little Chevy van. My new neighbor came up to me and said "I see you haven't lived on the Cape before.............vans and pickup trucks are illegal." I laughed because I thought he was kidding, he wasn't. Cape Coral had passed a law that no pickups or vans could be parked in your driveway, they had to be out of sight. One guy came home for lunch and they ticketed him while he was there for only that little bit of time. I got a ticket at 2 AM, and I finally gave up and sold the van.

The goofiness of that law was that I could park any old piece of crap car in my driveway as long as it was licensed, but couldn't park a $ 40,000.00 van or pickup truck! The city in it's wisdom passed a law to keep big dump trucks and commercial trucks from being able to park overnight, but they extended the law to ALL trucks and vans, even passenger ones.

Finally the law got overturned after about 20 years, and a lot of picketing by van and truck owners, but it took about 10 tries at election time to do it. City Governments can be very stupid in their logic, and unfortunately, they pass the laws we all have to live with.

Don