Flagler Beach magistrate suspends fines, orders driver education in multiple parking-violation appeals

Special Magistrate Gregory Pop on Monday reviewed multiple parking-citation appeals for the City of Flagler Beach and, while finding technical violations in each case, suspended monetary penalties in favor of short educational requirements for the appellants.

Pop, presiding at the special magistrate hearing, said he would not impose fines where circumstances showed limited public-safety risk and where appellants were willing to undertake education of other drivers. “Iam going to find that there was a technical violation, but not an egregious one,” Pop said, and added he would “require you to do some education of other drivers.”

The outcome affected at least three appellants who appeared in person or by telephone. In case number 2497, an appellant who gave her name as Mary Diane Bradburn Luke's of Palm Coast appealed a citation issued May 15 for parking on a sidewalk or crosswalk.…