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‘I Wish I Had A Wonderful Excuse’: 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. ***

“Dear Stacy, Thank you for taking the time to go over the procedures for disputing a parking ticket with me. You were very helpful and I appreciate it. Here’s my testimony: On Monday morning, I parked on Forest Street (left side) just after the handicapped parking spot. When I pulled into the spot, I looked up to check the sign to see if it was a 2 hour or 90 minute spot (as I was going to a hair appointment at Salon 5 East). I was very close to the sign and just saw the green and white ‘2 hour parking’ sign through the top edge of my windshield. My bigger concern was that I had left enough room behind me for the handicapped parking spot.

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‘I Had a Female Emergency’: 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 a female emergency and had to urgently use a bathroom. I put my hazard lights on and used a bathroom for less than three minute. When I ran back to my car, the parking officer handed me the ticket – it wasn’t even on my windshield. When I told her I had a female emergency she scoffed at me and said ‘too bad.’ I object to being laughed at and not being taken seriously.

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‘I’m Only 5-Foot-1’: 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 AM NOT PAYING THIS. I WAS IN THE PARKING SPOT AT THE CURB TO RUN SOMETHING INTO HALSTEAD. I WAS THERE FOR NO MORE THAN (TEN) 10 MINUTES 🙁 THE SIGN AT THE CURB SAID 15 MINUTES MAX!! HAPPY EASTER”

—$25 for overtime parking in Morse court, at 11:32 a.m. on April 17 (Norwalk resident)

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“I was working at New Canaan Country Club construction with Camsan Electric.

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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. Lindy and Len Fox 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, the Foxes said, and that’s why they ended up parking in the “Playhouse Lot.”

“So I put my card in, it would not take it,” Len Fox 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.