Parking policies/enforcement

Hey all,
I am hoping you guys can share your parking policies with me and how you go about enforcing them.

Here is a little background on our community:

Each home has two numbered spaces. Homeowners are expected to use their assigned spots and all homeowners have parking permits that they must display in their vehicles. There is plenty of cut-outs on the street for visitors, along with a few spots in our parking areas. I had a party at my house a few weeks ago with 25 guests, and while some people had to park a street or so away and walk, everyone found a parking spot pretty easily.

However, we have a real problem with people just parking their car wherever when there are clearly visitor spots available. We had a homeowner just leave her car in the street next to her unit when every visitor spot in front of her home was empty. We've had homeowners have weekend guests that just parked in the street when there were dozens of spots within walking distance that were unoccupied. Most recently we had a homeowner who had a Superbowl party, and his street was so filled with cars that an emergency vehicle could not have made it through if necessary.

Our lawyer is not very keen on us just towing people even when they are blocking the street. Ideally he would like us to fine offenders before towing, but how do you even do that when you're not sure which homeowner the guests belong to? Sometimes it's easy to tell, sometimes it's not. We make them put a visitors pass on any car staying overnight, but we've never done that for guests that were just staying for a brief time period, and I'm not really sure who would put the pass on a car that they knew was parked illegally anyhow.

Any thoughts on how you deal with parking in your neighborhoods? Any suggestions for us?

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We have plenty of parking. People just park on the street instead of in the parking spots and block the roadways. Lazy.

I figure at some point we are going to tow a home owner who is going to be irate about it. I'm not a huge fan of towing folks myself. I figure if someone is parking in your spots that are your personal property or illegally on a street, you can deal with it with the police and/or tow company.