Never complain about London two wheels on the pavement parking fines.
Florida homeowner must pay more than $100,000 in outstanding fees for improperly parking on her own property after the state’s Supreme Court declined to hear her appeal that argued excessive fines.
Zenaida “Sandy” Martinez initially filed a complaint against the city of Lantana, Fla., in February 2021, according to Circuit Court documents obtained by PEOPLE.
According to the complaint, Martinez owed more than $165,000 to the city "for trivial code violations" — about $100,000 primarily for parking in her driveway with two tires partially covering the grass, and more than $60,000 for two cosmetic violations. The complaint alleges that in total, the fines are “almost four times more than Sandy earns in an entire year.”
According to a release from the Institute for Justice (IJ), a free-of-charge public interest law firm representing the homeowner, Martinez lives with her two driving-age children and her sister, who all own cars so they can get to their jobs or school. When all four cars are parked, “sometimes one of them would have two tires on the lawn.” For that, the city fined $250 a day for 407 straight days.
Edit: after investigating further it's actually for parking on her own grass instead of on the driveway.
The cosmetic penalties appear to be for damaging her own grass!
Florida has weird parking regulations.
