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A business in a small office complex I frequent downtown allows their employees to park in the designated handicap parking spot and adjacent loading area. Is this legal?
Employees Parking in Handicap Spot?
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October 25, 2018, 11:10 am
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If it’s on private property, enforcement of parking restrictions is left to the property owner. So if the property owner/occupier doesn’t care, or actively endorses employees using the disabled spaces I don’t think there’s anything you can do about it, unless perhaps the development/use permit included a condition of mandatory disabled access, so it would be a breach of the permit.
I hope parking doesn’t become impossible with more and more businesses w/offices locating in downtown. The Saks building, Amazon now, store on first level, the rest for Amazon office workers.
Hope it doesn’t break the back of Lilac Patisserie, for lack of customer parking.
But everyone was going to ride bikes to work remember?
If the business is not open for the public perhaps the spots are usable by employees? But when the lot is available (say a chain is removed) the spots are definitely handicapped only. But isn’t it interesting that the city itself is attempting to stop people from using clearly public handicap parking places when such public drives RVs?
See a vehicle in a handicapped spot and no handicapped tag on license plate or no handicapped permit visible anywhere . . . call City Police or Sheriffs. In CA the fine ranges from $250 to $500. I think in City of Santa Barbara it’s around $375. In San Francisco the first offense is a whopping $935. Good on ‘ya SF.