Reply #77: As long as

[Coyote_Bandit]

(1) what these people are doing in their home is legal and as long as (2) their home can safely accomodate their guests and as long as (3) those cars a legally parked - and parked for only a couple of hours not for a full day or overnight I've got no problem with this.

I do think an ordinance that limits one's house guests to 3 is just stupid. That effectively prohibits hosting both maternal and paternal grandparents at the same holiday dinner.

I have a next door neighbor that hosts regular bridge parties in her home. There are never less than 20 people there - and usually there are about 40 people. They set up tables in the kitchen, the dining room, the den, the living room - and sometimes the outdoor covered patio, and even the garage. They are a bunch of litle old ladies and they usually don't play longer than two or three hours. While they are not legally rquired to do so they usually all park neatly along the same side of the street. You don't hear them come and go and they stay off of the neighbor's lawns. Noise isn't an issue. Nothing they do is disruptive.

This really shouldn't be an issue. The fact that it is sggests that either the neighbors are intruding into something that really should be of no concern to them or that the house guests are being disrespectful to the neighbors. Maybe there is loud music. Maybe the estivities are not time limited. Maybe the guests are taking all the street parking and leaving none for the neighbors. Maybe they are parking badly or going into or through neighbor's lawns - or littering. Or being loud and disruptive on the street.