Ok so on Saturday I was up in Santa Monica to celebrate a friend's birthday. We all met at a bar called the gas lite.
I parked in a residential neighborhood nearby at around 10pm.
I get back to my car at 1am and there is a $47.00 parking ticket on it!
Apparently you need a permit to park in this residential area between 7am and 12am! I got the ticket at 11:27pm.
I looked and there were some signs on the street, but there were none near where I actually parked, and they were tall signs and there are trees that partially obscured the signs.
I had no idea that you needed some special permit there, it was dark, there were not many signs, im from out of town, etc.
I am going to contest this, but would like some help writing this up in a way that the clerk who reads it (making 8 bucks an hour I am sure) will dismiss the citation.
advice?
I parked in a residential neighborhood nearby at around 10pm.
I get back to my car at 1am and there is a $47.00 parking ticket on it!
Apparently you need a permit to park in this residential area between 7am and 12am! I got the ticket at 11:27pm.
I looked and there were some signs on the street, but there were none near where I actually parked, and they were tall signs and there are trees that partially obscured the signs.
I had no idea that you needed some special permit there, it was dark, there were not many signs, im from out of town, etc.
I am going to contest this, but would like some help writing this up in a way that the clerk who reads it (making 8 bucks an hour I am sure) will dismiss the citation.
advice?