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Special magistrate rules on four Flagler Beach wrong-direction parking appeals
Summary
At a special magistrate hearing April 23, City of Flagler Beach Magistrate Gregory Popp denied one wrong-direction parking appeal, reduced another fine with an educational requirement, and dismissed two others after appellants described why they parked as they did.
Flagler Beach Special Magistrate Gregory Popp on April 23 heard four appeals of "wrong-direction" parking citations, upholding one citation, reducing another to a $50 fine with an educational requirement, and dismissing two others.
Popp opened the hearing by saying the four matters before him shared the same violation and stressing safety concerns: "Wrong direction is an unsafe practice. That's why you are cited." He explained that parking the wrong direction can involve multiple moving violations when a driver enters and departs a parking spot, and said he would require "a very substantial justification" to overturn a citation.
The first appellant, identified in the record as Miss Domit (case P1346FoxBravo), told the magistrate she had pulled a recreation-vehicle-style van into a space on South Nye Street on Feb. 28 because sandy shoulders near the beach made other spots unusable and because nearby driveways…
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