re dedicated Handicapped Parking spots
I do not use them when I don't need them, parking permit displayed regardless.
I have a lifelong permanent physical disability, a weak knee, and I'm not as young as I once was.
I need the WIDER spaces to get in / out of the vehicle, the proximity to the store or building is not as much of a concern, as I can walk across the parking lot. I do use a cane at this point, most of the time.
One day, several years ago I received a parking ticket in my hometown, while parked on the road, in a 1 hr designated parking spot, with the permit displayed. I was ticketed for being 3 minutes over the 1 hr limit, as per the $45 ticket. I had patronized 6 business establishments in that time period, walking with a cane. I paid the ticket, and added a scathing letter to City Hall re the pettiness of that ticket, citing that 1 hr time limits were insufficient in designated spaces. Three months later, ALL of the designated spaces around town, and several new spaces added, had brightly painted blue signs on the pavement, and on the posts, now with a 2 hr time limit. Best $45 I ever spent