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Validation Causes Problems (and the Bronx Bombers vs. Parking)
after 2.5 hrs, makes a u-turn and comes right back in with a new ticket to validate. Other local merchants that are part of the association,which also controls the parking facility, see this as abuse and want to put a stop to it. They don’t want to adjust any of the fee or rate schedules and want to implement a simple policy procedure to curb this.
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RECEIVEDTHE FOLLOWINGPROBLEM in an e-mail froma PT reader: The vehicle parks for 2.5 hrs and gets a vali- dation from the shop. I have one individual who is abusing this. He drives out of the lot
cite the original ticket/validation. Notify the merchant that it risks loss of validation rights for fraudulently validating tickets. You might have to “adjust” the validation rules slightly, saying that only one ticket can be validated for the same vehicle in a three-hour period. Since this is a repeat person, either they are the merchant or
Continued use of the property could result in a trespass violation notice being served or the vehicle being booted and towed at the owner’s expense.
This is the same as “meter feeding.” Since the individual is
known, record his plate numberwhen he exits the first time. If this is an exit cashier situation, simply refuse the validation on the sec- ond attempt when exit/entry times are relatively back-to-back and
one of his employees. Repeated offenses can result in a demand letter to the individual suggesting that: •They are guilty of theft of service. •They are no longer an invited guest to the property. • Continued use of the property could result in a trespass vio- lation notice being served or the vehi- cle being booted and towed at the own- er’s expense (that doesn’t mean you will, but the threat sometimes is enough). Since this is private property and a
merchants association is involved, use peer pressure first, then look at the lease language as it relates to the use of the validation by themerchants. There are a number of alternatives,
but I think that peer pressure on the merchants would probably be the best way to go. They must know that one of them or their employees is taking space that should be made available for cus- tomers and hurting not only the store, but the entire association.
Build ‘emand they will come? Ah, no … I have read with interest JVH’s
Parking Blog posts concerningYankee Stadium and the garages built there to “service” theYankee games.A quarter of a billion dollars was spent, a num- ber of spaces were built – and the expectation was that the monies gener- ated from the garages would pay the cost of the construction and the operat- ing expenses. The developer there made a num-
ber ofmistakes. First, they didn’t do a proper sur-
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