A City Just Fined A Woman SIX FIGURES For Parking In Her Own Driveway…
Sandy Martinez was shocked when she found out her Florida town had been fining her $250 per day for over a year. The bill for her property code violation had climbed to over $100,000.Her offense? A car was parked with two of its wheels in her grass rather than the driveway. But the car was on her own property; her own grass. Sandy knew she had fixed the issue over a year before—soon after she received a citation and then called city inspectors to come back out.
The city of Lantana in Florida has a law that states, “All off-street parking spaces, including driveways, but not including parking spaces located in swale areas as permitted by section 17-34, shall be asphalt, concrete or black, and shall be hard surfaced and in good repair in compliance with town codes.”
