Am I misunderstanding the 2hr parking rule?
Got a ticket today for being continuously parked in the same spot. In actual sense, I parked for a short while outside a building building, went out of town (with receipt for shopping + gas), then returned somewhere up the same street to bring back an item to a friend. I guess because the ticket vehicle scanned me at the building in the morning and evening, it’s registering it as an issue.
I’m happy to pay the ticket if I violated it, or contest if I’m in the clear, but I am curious to understand the law for future cases. Should I have parked on another street if I was just dropping something off and had parked on the same street earlier in the day or does the Two hour limit apply to people just trying to extend parking on the street?
For reference here’s the description on the Redmond website:
Parking Violations
Parking time limits are actively enforced by Redmond's contracted parking enforcement agency and the City of Redmond. Tickets are issued to vehicles exceeding the maximum parking time. Parking tickets state Reason: Exceeded Time Limit. Parking violations are $29 and payable to the King County Municipal Court. You can pay by phone, mail, or online through the King County Municipal Court and search for the case number by vehicle license, ticket number, or name.
Note: No person may repark a vehicle on either side of the same street in order to extend the vehicle's parking time beyond the time limits established. A vehicle shall be deemed to be reparked and in violation of this section despite any movement of the vehicle unless the vehicle is moved to a street with a different street name than the street the vehicle was originally parked on. RMC 10.52.105.B. (Ord. 2490 § 2, 2009)
TLDR: Not sure if I broke the rule if I wasn’t actually parked continuously for the time on the sign.