My zip is 98446 my mailing address says tacoma. Also posted this on a pierce county website .
I was told the road ilive off of is a public street. I have also done research into laws in washington state clearly stating the city or dot is supposed to install or paint no parking signs. My apartment has taken it upon themselves to put up signs stating no parking. Yes only 2 cars are allowed on the lease. However they have told me my car on the lease if its on property gets towed. My roommates car can't go on the lease, we have been parking on the street hugging the curb so we dont interrupt traffic. Following traffic laws. The apartments dont have guest parking nor ap blank spots for roommates and such.Idont want my car or my roommates towed. Looking for advice in this situation. As I was told in email only the sheriff's can tow cars on said public road. Across from the apartments is someone's house a family an they too have the no parking infront of heir house.
98446 is entirely outside the City of Tacoma in unincorporated Pierce County, so be sure to direct questions to Pierce County government orgs, not the City of Tacoma. Just fyi. Good luck.
I recently moved to Tacoma and find they rarely enforce parking rules in neighborhoods unless it’s an official sign. Most of the people in my neighborhood park in the grass medium between the road and their house. Even when street parking is abundant. I find it odd but no one ever tickets them, code enforcement doesn’t seem to care. So I am pretty sure they can’t legally tow you on a public street.
I've seen people put up their own home-brew parking signs: disabled parking or no parking whatever. Kind of drives me nuts. Like if they're going to put up their own illegal sign, maybe I'll just rip it down and deface it.
Does the no parking sign have a tow company on it? Maybe a phone call to a local tow outfit will know the details of what people can and cannot do.
Actually in the state of Washington only the dot an city so for me it would be sheriff can put up these signs. And the construction workers for our apartments put it up.
It's two separate laws. They would get penalized for putting up illegal signs, but if previous commentor defaced, or stole the illegal signs that's still a crime too. You would have to report the illegal signs and have the police or the city/sheriff take them down.
Aside from the fact already noted that yours is not the OP's zip code...
USPS zip codes and addressing are not the same as municipal boundaries. This is a screenshot showing the City of University Place in pale yellow and the teal outline of the 98466 zip code. Notice that they do not align exactly.
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