Brooklyn residents are paving illegal driveways on their front lawns and creating unauthorized curb cuts eliminating scarce parking spots for other people. Some homeowners cut the curb themselves, but most just drive over the short curbs onto their paved-over lawns and then pitch a fit when anyone parks at the curb and blocks them in.
It gets worse! The NYPD has no record of which driveways are legitimate. So if someone parks at a curb and blocks an illegal driveway and the homeowner calls the cops, officers will ticket the car and force the driver to fight it in court.
Not only do the many paved over lawns take away from on-street parking, they also make neighborhoods look unattractive and also take away grass that can contain storm runoff, which could increase the likelihood of street flooding.
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