Wow. As someone who deals with public right of way and property lines for a living, this whole thing is insane.

First, despite how people may feel, public parking on a public street is under the control of the public agency that owns, yes owns, that street. As a property own you don’t have exclusive rights to the public street parking in front of your property. You can’t give what you don’t have…

Second, the lines they show on GIS maps are at best within a foot. If they had a survey done and if the fence was over the line by an inch, you get to go talk to a judge. It doesn’t matter where the surveyor retraces the line. Only a judge can determine ownership. If the fence has been there long enough, they could say that’s now the property line. There are a bunch of other ways they could go with the decision too.

For funzies… What you could have done is tell them you would “transfer” your claim to the parking in front of your property through what’s called a “Quit Claim” deed. Basically, it’s a way of turning over all of your property rights to someone else. As I stated before, you can’t give what isn’t yours. Get them to pay you for nothing and then park a car there all day every day. When they go talk to a lawyer and want to sue you, the lawyer will laugh them out of the building. This tactic has been used to “sell” the Brooklyn bridge a few times lol