Mark Brown received a warning from the police posted on his car on Monday, saying he has until March 3 to get his car out of his driveway.

"I own a company, I own equipment, and everything else that is transported in the vehicles, I'm not going to park my vehicle in the street when I have a perfectly good driveway right here," said Brown.

The explanation Brown said he got from the police -- he was blocking an imaginary sidewalk. KFOX spoke to the El Paso police to explain the law.

"You are not allowed to block the sidewalk and you're not allowed to park on the easement," said Officer Chris Mears with the El Paso Police Department.

The police describe the easement as the area between the road and either the sidewalk or the property line. Brown says in the nearly 14 years he has lived there, he has never had trouble parking his car.

"From some of the other neighbors I've spoken with, none of them have ever gotten a citation until Monday," said Brown.

The police said it's to keep pedestrians off the road.

"We don't want people walking in the street obviously because we have a high number of pedestrian fatalities in this city," said Mears.

Brown believes enforcing the law will make it more dangerous for pedestrians, because where there are no sidewalks, people will have to walk on crowded streets.

"That would hit everybody. So that would literally have everybody parked on the street, move all of their cars everybody on the next street over," said Brown.

Mears said for years the law has been in place, and that because many may not know about the parking rules, the police are trying to be understanding by issuing warnings before tickets.