And I Thought Wauwatosa's Parking Laws Were Insane

You may recall some time ago, I had asked about why Wauwatosa didn't allow overnight parking.  The opinions varied quite a bit, but one pattern seemed clear.  If you owned your house, you liked the idea of no overnight parking, and if you rented, you wanted to be able to park on the street.  Well, if you thought Wauwatosa was strict about it, just be glad you don't live in Washington D.C.:

Beverly Anderson is mad as hell. She just started to get tickets for parking in her own driveway.

That's right. The District of Columbia is ticketing people who park their cars in their own driveways.
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So what does the law say?

"Any area between the property line and the building restriction line shall be considered as private property set aside and treated as public space under the care and maintenance of the property owner."

Basically what that means is most property owners in the District don't own the land between their front door and the sidewalk, but they are responsible for taking care of it. It's why you can get a ticket for drinking beer on your front porch in the Nation's Capital. You're technically on public space. It's also why the city can ticket you for parking in your own driveway if you don't pull your car deep enough into the driveway beyond the façade of your house or building.

Now then, I don't know what the Wauwatosa ordinances say, so maybe I shouldn't give the city any ideas.  But then who knows how the parking situation in Wauwatosa might change if many home owners were faced with the same parking ticket peril that the large number of renters in this great city face every day.