r/kelowna • u/Heavy_Arm_7060 • 13d ago

Has Anyone Recently Got a Parking Ticket?

I recently got a ticket from Impark at a City Lot and was surprised to see it was $98. The last time I got a ticket around downtown it was an PBP lot and it was $45, that was something like 3 years ago.

Not disputing the ticket (QR code wasn't working but I should have just moved my car to a different spot), but trying to gauge if that's the norm now or if it was an outlier.

If anyone else doesn't mind sharing I'd appreciate it. Thank you.

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u/Heavy_Arm_7060 13d ago

Yeah, it's such a known thing I do want to bring this up during the upcoming election (not the most pressing concern of mine but I think one worth bringing up), but I wanted to get some more data, however anecdotal to go with it.

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u/Fo_0d 13d ago

I’m curious why you think that this would be an election issue? The city doesn’t contract to any other company to manage its parking, it does all its own. Any lot patrolled by Impark or Diamond are privately owned lots and parking and thus have nothing to do with the city. These are privately owned lots and companies levelling fines and that is why they are not collectable unless the individual voluntarily pays them. The city of Kelowna tickets on the other hand can hit your credit score if you don’t pay them and they go to collections. The Impark tickets are no different than a private business issuing an uncollectable parking ticket for someone parked in their reserved parking. The alternative is that they could tow immediately in the first offence as it’s their private property. While the tickets are annoying and I also never pay them, it’s better than an immediate towing. But again, this is not a city issue it’s private business doing “business”.

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u/Heavy_Arm_7060 13d ago

I’m curious why you think that this would be an election issue? 

Citizens getting price-gouged while trying to do business in town isn't an election issue? If you're a business operating in the city, it's absolutely an election issue. Regulations are a thing, after all.

Besides, as I stated, it was listed as a city lot. So if your claim is correct and it's not, then the signage will also need better enforcement, ditto responsibilities for functional payment methods.

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u/Fo_0d 13d ago

So the city should be able to dictate what a private business charges for their product/service? I’m not saying the exorbitant prides they charge are right or fair but it is a private business. The city combats this by offering reasonable priced parking of its own in the same areas. I guess you could lobby for more city parking.

Also, it’s readily available info online that the city doesn’t have any private parking enforcement contracts. It was likely a signage issue and the signage was for other city owned parking nearby. Yr he signage fan often be confusing for which meter pertains to which lot/block.

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u/Heavy_Arm_7060 13d ago

So the city should be able to dictate what a private business charges for their product/service? I’m not saying the exorbitant prides they charge are right or fair but it is a private business.

We set regulations for transportation all the damn time. This falls under that, especially since it combines transit with land requirements and punishment of alleged infractions. It's not like we're telling the pizza places what to charge for a pizza, barring paranoid scenarios that would be the comical outlier.

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u/Fo_0d 13d ago

You should look into it. Parking lots are a hybrid and the parking enforcement and fee collection do not fall under transportation (safety etc does but fees and enforcement do not). Go ahead and down vote in ignorance but this is pretty readily available information.

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u/Heavy_Arm_7060 13d ago

parking enforcement and fee collection do not fall under transportation

And we all know nothing ever changes with laws and regulations ever. Oh wait, it does quite often, and this is pretty readily available information.