My driveway won’t fit a car, but it now has short-term bicycle parking! For both guests and residents. I even added a kickstand prop! (L-shaped piece of cinderblock on the ground. Same approach that I used to use for parking my little Honda Rebel in the driveway, during my brief stint of motorcycle ownership.)
I got the idea to create an exterior short-term parking space when a housemate’s guest was having trouble threading her bicycle up through the shade trellis area. (The path used to be a lot narrower, more difficult to get a bicycle through; I widened it a bit yesterday before getting the idea to create an exterior parking space.)
The bicycle pictured here is mine. I usually keep it parked in the garage.
In the USA American culture, sometimes we think we don’t have space for something, but we actually do. I think we’ve just been conditioned to take up a lot of space. Because of how much land this continent that we invaded has. I was able to create this bicycle space without encroaching on the trellis shade zone, and without eliminating the little chairs and mini table at the front of the driveway.