My (former) parking spot · Tuesday April 20, 2010
I liked this spot. I felt pretty clever parking in the foot and a half between the metered spot to the right, there, and the commercial loading zone to the left. I’ve been parking there since we moved offices, and so far I’ve met with no trouble.
However, today I talked with one of the city’s parking enforcement staff as he was walking by and he said that while he doesn’t personally ticket motorcycles who find little spots here and there downtown, he has colleagues who do. Furthermore, he said that the way the law is written there are no “dead spaces” between spots. If it looks like there’s a little space between zones in some places like there is in this one, that space is considered to be part of the adjacent metered parking spot.
I guess I’ve been lucky these past weeks and not run afoul of strict parking enforcement at the inevitable times when the meter has run out, but who knows how long that’ll last. It might be the train from here on out.