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‘I Have a Big SUV’: Parking Ticket Appeals

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These are excerpts from recent appeal letters that motorists filed with the New Canaan Parking Bureau after receiving tickets. ***

“I had the flu and had to go into the Starbucks to use their restroom. I’ve been having some stomach problems and did not want to vomit on the street in front of people.”

—$30 for loading zone on Elm Street, at 8:28 a.m. on March 20 (New Canaan resident)

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“I believe that I was not parking on the sidewalk, but rather on a snowbank. It was Ash Wednesday, and I was going to Church and the parking lot at St. Aloysius Church was filled on the holy day.”

—$50 for parking on sidewalk on Cherry Street, at 12:42 p.m. on March 6 (South Salem, N.Y. resident)

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“The ‘gentleman’ before me in line got frustrated and punched the machine mid-transaction.

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Officials Uphold $25 Parking Ticket for Confused Darien Couple

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The Parking Commission last week upheld a $25 ticket for a Darien couple that pulled into a space at one municipal lot downtown and then tried to pay at another. [The couple] told the commissioners during their March 14 meeting that on the morning of Jan. 31 (a Thursday), they pulled into a space in front of the former Outback Teen Center and then walked up the hill to pay for their parking at the meter machine where the wife, Lindy, typically parks and pays when she visits New Canaan. Yet that day, what locals call the “Park Street Lot” was full, they said, and that’s why they ended up parking in the “Playhouse Lot.”

“So I put my card in, it would not take it,” the man told the Commission during his appeal hearing, held at Town Hall. “Some lady comes over, and she uses the other one, because there are two [pay machines] together and she said, ‘My card is working here.

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‘My Child Started Screaming from the Cold’: Parking Ticket Appeals 

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Here are snippets from ticket appeals filed recently with the New Canaan Parking Bureau. ***

“Delivery driving—had to rush to complete customer order and avoid reprimand from employer (GrubHub), snowfall made it unclear where the no parking zone began and ended. $30 would eliminate a few hours of delivery work. Better parking locations were pointed out afterward.”

—$30 for no parking zone on Forest Street at 12:17 p.m. on Feb. 14 (Sandy Hook resident)

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“On February 1, 2019 I received a parking ticket in front of Le Pain Quotidien coffee shop on Elm Street to meet with Pastor Mark Lingle at 3 pm.

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‘I Am from the State of Massachusetts’: Parking Ticket Appeals

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Here’s a sample of recent ticket appeals filed with the New Canaan Parking Bureau. ***

“I received a ticket on the morning of 1/24 for overtime parking while in the post office. I was in the post office for 15 mins. My tire was never marked not was I parked in the spot over the allotted amount of time. I was parked in a 30min zone within the white lines.”

—$25 for overtime parking on Locust Avenue, at 10:33 a.m. on Jan.

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‘I Am the Victim Here’: Parking Ticket Appeals

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Here are excerpts from parking ticket appeals letters filed recently with the New Canaan Parking Bureau:

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“My daughter and I pulled into this spot both of us never knew it was handicap spot. There were no markings on the road all that was visible to us was the 2 hour parking sign in front of us on the right. The one handicap sign was beyond us when we parked and we never even knew it was a handicap. I’m compelled to let you know there were plenty of other spots to chose from at the time on Elm street and I have never and would never park in a handicap spot intentionally. The fine is very steep.