My suggestion is to permanently scar their lawn with an oversized handicap logo. You can buy chemicals at HD or Lowe's to do this. Urine also burns grass so that's another option...although you need a damn good aim for that.

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I don't consider the Shepherd/Westheimer neighborhood to be Montrose.

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Well, it is.

ruSAL,

I like this idea, but I'm pretty sure I would get busted. I do want to do evil things to these ladies, but I don't want to go to jail over it. Anyone more daring than me please take your chances (2410 Driscoll).

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As far as my car it is a small sporty two-seater not a huge white PSB SUV or anything like that.

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explain to us again why you don't park in your own private parking? Why do you need to park in front of a neighbor's house?

Personally, I would be screwing with the cars parking in front of my house instead of having the handicapped signs.

Ryan the Temp,

What do you consider to be the easternmost street not in Montrose? I can tell you that several realtors have told me that Shepherd/Westheimer is not considered Montrose. People who request to look at houses in Montrose are looking at least a mile east of Shepherd.

not to one up you Old Main, but my gay neighbors have a "stud only" parking sign...

fortunately, i still qualify for parking anywhere around here.

cjg89,

There are a three spots (usually taken) behind my fourplex but the drive to get to them is extremely narrow and my rear view mirrors barely clear the brick walls and fences by about an inch on each side. My car is very wide. I tried it once and it is just not worth it.

i'm still confused why them being lesbians has anything to do with this arguement

Check with the cops to see if the signs are legit

fwiw, if they are NOT indeed handicapped, then their cars can be ticketed if they park on the street.

If it is THAT important to you, and you honestly believe the sole purpose is to keep people from parking in front of their house, call HPD immediately any time you see someone park there, especially them or their guests. I can guarantee you the first time they or one of their guests gets a $270 parking ticket, the signs will come down. HPD can be reached at 713-884-3131.

Alternatively, you can become a volunteer enforcer. There is a City program that certifies citizens to write real parking citations for handicapped parking violations. You can get certified and then write up a ticket on the spot whenever someone parks there. It is the same ticket a cop would write.

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Alternatively, you can become a volunteer enforcer. There is a City program that certifies citizens to write real parking citations for handicapped parking violations. You can get certified and then write up a ticket on the spot whenever someone parks there. It is the same ticket a cop would write.

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Can i still write tickets if I wear pasties?

rdag04,

It doesn't really - I was just adding some color to my original post. I already apologized to anyone I offended. I will stick to my observation that gnarly four-wheelin' grandma lesbians are more likely to put up fake handicap parking signs than your everyday neighbor.

The main thing that pisses me off is that the only reason these ladies put the handicap parking only signs up is to keep me and my neighbors from parking in front of their house - the last time I checked Driscoll was a public street. Not one handicap tagged/licensed car has parked along the curb since the signs went up over a month ago - so of no handicap cars are parking there why are the signs necessary?

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I have found that since the western-most side of Montrose is being redeveloped with upscale residential, a lot of people are basically trying to redefine it as "River Oaks West." realtors will tell people the area is not Montrose because there is still a stigma for some about living "where the gays are."

It is historically Montrose.

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There are a three spots (usually taken) behind my fourplex but the drive to get to them is extremely narrow and my rear view mirrors barely clear the brick walls and fences by about an inch on each side. My car is very wide. I tried it once and it is just not worth it.

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You should have considered this when you decided living in the fourplex. Just took parking in front on the neighbors as some sort of right? an entitlement?

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There are a three spots (usually taken) behind my fourplex but the drive to get to them is extremely narrow and my rear view mirrors barely clear the brick walls and fences by about an inch on each side.

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I know where you live.

just for those who are not aware.... gays and lesbians are legally able to live outside of the montrose area despite what boundaries define it

cjg89,

Cars were already parking along the curbs before I moved here - this is not something new I started. The handicap parking sign eliminated two parking spots on a street with very limited parking to begin with.

Ryan,

I'm curious as to what is considered to be the western boundary of Montrose - I'm not being a smart-alec, I really don't know.

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Resident bull dyke problem, the worst kind a man could have.

it is a PUBLIC street. People can park in front of whomever house they want. It happens all the time in college and in Houston.

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You should have considered this when you decided living in the fourplex. Just took parking in front on the neighbors as some sort of right? an entitlement?

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it's not their property

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gays and lesbians are legally able to live outside of the montrose area despite what boundaries define it

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I know ... have you been to Timber Grove lately?

yeah, its city living...i'd expect to see plenty of cars on the streets parking. in fact, i do every night. it's a public space that nobody owns

have not heard of timber grove....where is that?

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I'm curious as to what is considered to be the western boundary of Montrose

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It is not a single street. It roughly follows the western boundary of Freedmen's Town/4th Ward and Midtown. It's Taft-ish sort of on the north and Bagby/Spur-ish on the South.

Timber Grove is west of the Heights.

ah yeah.....nevermind.... i know where you are talking about

Still the Western boundary has to be somewhere. My guess is that it might be Woodhead or somewhere like that. How can one say something is Montrose or not if the boundaries cannot be defined?

edit: wtf?


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A nice rainbow colored map for your viewing pleasure.

Let's see if this works now ...










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You could always try talking to these ladies, maybe they would be willing to remove the signs.

noway zap. they're lesbians. they can't be talked to.

the lesbians will kill you....then eat you....if you try to talk to them

Along Westheimer I really think most people identify the streets a few blocks east of Shepherd (Hazard, Driscoll, Morse, etc.) with Shepherd and the area west all the way to Kirby. Just east of Woodhead I think Westheimer begins to change drastically where those antique shops are - I think that is more indicative of the western boundary of Montrose than any other boundary.

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The map I posted is the official map recognized by the City of Houston and Superneighborhood #24.

Call it whatever you want - it's still officially Montrose.