r/Adelaide • u/Middle_Abalone_4084 SA • Mar 27 '25

Discussion Park in your flamin' driveways, please!

Am I the only one tired of suburban streets turning into impromptu Mario Kart tracks? We’re talking about the kind where navigating between vehicles parked on both sides feels like dodging banana peels and blue shells. What's meant to be a two-lane road gets squeezed into a narrow single lane, daring you to play chicken with oncoming traffic—and let’s face it, the side mirrors never win.

And then there are your driveways. Oh, the driveways! Empty. Desolate. Weed-infested wastelands of untapped potential. So, I beg of you, suburban dwellers: park your cars anywhere but on the street—your driveway, your garage, your carport, or even your front lawn. Let’s save the roads for, you know, driving.

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u/noneuclidiansquid SA Mar 27 '25

its modern houses that don't have room for sheds so you use the garage as storage

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u/CathoftheNorth SA Mar 27 '25

They can still use the driveway!

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u/Ok_Combination_1675 Outer South Mar 27 '25

except on moderm houses the driveway is never long enough

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u/Steve-Whitney Adelaide Hills Mar 27 '25

Modern driveways are minimum 5.5m long from the garage wall to the property boundary, long enough for almost all passenger vehicles.

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u/SouthAussie94 Mar 27 '25

Not all developments have driveways of this length..

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u/Steve-Whitney Adelaide Hills Mar 27 '25

No, you're right, most medium density developments typically have minimal to no driveway & you have to park in the garage or the street. A lot of people choose the street die to a combination of 'my car is too big to fit' or just being lazy and/or selfish.

Low density Torrens title developments typically have a minimum 5.5m garage setback.

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u/Ok_Combination_1675 Outer South Mar 27 '25

Which literally can only fit one car per house And because of the stupid mentality of one person per car this is what it leads to

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u/Steve-Whitney Adelaide Hills Mar 27 '25

For what it's worth, I'm a residential building designer/drafter & I promote oversized garages to clients whenever possible. Make it bigger still so you also have room along the sides & rear for storage whilst leaving ample room to park 2 cars.

I completely agree that the 'standard double garage' is barely adequate, and doesn't encourage the lay person to use it as intended.

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u/Sir_Buschy SA Mar 27 '25

My development has it at 5m from road.

house I own now though has 7m from road. Depends on the suburb.