New City Van Tracks Your Parking

[Steve]

Here's the thing with this: if they are going to use this van, then can we at least get rid of the meters?  This thing can track if you are over time, so get rid of the quarter annoyance at least.

[cityimrov]

This is a great idea IF Jacksonville had a problem of way too many people trying to come to Downtown.  We don't have that problem!  

I might be wrong.  There could be a bunch of Ghost Cars in Downtown Jacksonville from the 1930s taking up all the spots that we don't see!  This van might have special cameras that can see and rightfully ticket these ghost cars. 

[simms3]

Jerry's solution sounds good (and I vaguely remember the discussion with that as a solution a couple years ago).  I'll concede on paying for on street parking if the van is used to enforce the above system.  And really enforce the times and punish the repeat offenders who know they are trying to take advantage of a fair system (and block parking for others).

Also, lots and garages are not on street parking.  Lots are usually private, can't do anything about them, and garages are sometimes private, sometimes public.  Can't do anything about private garages but public garages can charge a cheap $1/hr and we can increase signage and make them more accessible to visitors.

[ChriswUfGator]

If COJ Parking Enforcement really wants to use this van, why didn't they just skip to the point and get one of these?

[ChriswUfGator]

Oh and I would loooooooove to see how well something like this would go over at town center, a van that takes secret pictures and tracks the location of your car to write BS tickets for occupying a parking space that nobody else wants anyway. Ridiculous.

[JaxByDefault]

so, parked in a DT city owned lot this week, going to get my car tags since they never cam in the mail-had my proof of payment (they cashed the check), got my ticket as I went in the lot. Got my tags, went back to the car and had a "parking ticket" for expired tags!!!!! WTF man???!!! First of all it was the city's mistake not mine, second why the hell does Parking Enforcement give out a tags ticket? Lastly I had to pay the bastards to get out of their lot!

I had a similar situation a year ago. I received a ticket for an expired tag--that Parking Enforcement gave me while I was in a private parking lot! I looked down the row and six or seven other cars had tickets for various offenses.

I did some research and under Fla. statutes and Jacksonville ordinances, Parking Enforcement does not have the authority to ticket for such violations. Their authority also does not extend onto private property. Yet, there they are writing dozens of downtown-destroying tickets every day.

I would have challenged my parking ticket in Duval Co. Kangaroo Court, but the court costs are far more than any parking ticket. Plus, you would have to go downtown again, where, invariably, you would get another ticket.

[exnewsman]

Nobody likes to pay for parking be it in a garage, lot or at a meter. But it does deter all day parkers. If you didn't have any meters downtown - what's left of the downtown office workers would be using them all day while they're on the job. That would prevent people who either live or doing business downtown (sounds kind of funny saying that) have no place to park. That is not good business either. Turnover is the key word in any downtown parking scenerio.

Seems to me this van is only making the parking enforcement process more efficient. It wasn't like people weren't getting ticketed before this van came along. Now they can do it faster and probably cheaper.

[Noone]

Bump for a thread that shows, in light of two of our last major corporate tenants having just bailed because of the asinine parking policies, just how backwards COJ has things when it comes to downtown...

WOW! I didn't know this van existed. The thread starts in 2007. Is this thing still being used? So just because you don't have a green ticket on the windshield doesn't mean you may not get a ticket.

[ChriswUfGator]

Bump for a thread that shows, in light of two of our last major corporate tenants having just bailed because of the asinine parking policies, just how backwards COJ has things when it comes to downtown...

WOW! I didn't know this van existed. The thread starts in 2007. Is this thing still being used? So just because you don't have a green ticket on the windshield doesn't mean you may not get a ticket.

Oh you mean a "Green Badge of Courage"? That's just your reward for being brave enough to venture downtown!

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

If COJ Parking Enforcement really wants to use this van, why didn't they just skip to the point and get one of these?

Funny stuff, but really all we need is more signage...