Welcome to El Segundo. Now keep (your car) off the grass
Police in El Segundo are handing out $35 parking tickets to scofflaws who dare park on their lawns instead of in their driveways, the Daily Breeze reports:
An orange pickup truck parked diagonally across a weeded side yard, a few feet from a pristine empty driveway Wednesday.
Up the street, a fifth-wheel trailer sat hitchless on a sad patch of green next to a cinder block wall.
And a few blocks east, a bright yellow truck rested atop sparse grass outside a house still festooned with faux boughs of Christmas holly.
These scenes might be typical in areas still on the border of gentrification, but in well-scrubbed El Segundo?
Yep, the tiny town affectionately known to some locals as Mayberry by the Sea has apparently seen an uptick in the last few weeks of folks parking their vehicles on front lawns, police say.
"For us, it's a lot," Lt. Tony de la Rambelje said. "We've had probably eight or 10 complaints."
Violations of the 11-year-old law are $35 a pop. Is it also illegal to grow grass in your driveway? Full story is here.
-- Veronique de Turenne
Photo: Carlos Chavez / Los Angeles Times
