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Parking rules don't bend for law enforcement
Authorities not getting break from DIB for parking-meter violations
PENSACOLA NEWS JOURNAL JUNE 16, 2008
No one is above getting a parking ticket in Pensacola.
Not even if you drive a vehicle with blue lights.
The Downtown Improvement Board took over downtown parking enforcement this year from city police, and it's not parceling out any favors when it comes to metered parking violations.
The board hired a private firm to carry out the enforcement, and the firm has put tickets — most of them warnings — on law enforcement vehicles parked at expired meters at the M.C. Blanchard Judicial Center.
"In our negotiations with the city and the county in creating this Downtown Management District, we all agreed that there would no VIP passes," said Kim Kimbrough, executive director of the DIB. "That everybody, regardless of who they are, would be treated the same way, and that the enforcement would be the same."
The no-VIP policy isn't well received by some in law enforcement.
"How do I dispense money for parking meters?" Escambia County Sheriff Ron McNesby asked. "Am I just going to give you a pocket full of quarters? I understand what they are trying to accomplish, but by the same token, I really don't understand what I am supposed to do."
Fifteen to 20 parking tickets — all warnings — have been put on Sheriff's Office vehicles, McNesby said. A warning ticket is given the first time a vehicle is cited, and a $10 ticket is given for a second offense.
A few warning tickets and one $10 ticket have been put on city police cars, Police Chief John Mathis said.
Mathis said he sent the $10 ticket back to the DIB and asked that it be voided. He said he has not heard back from the DIB.
When Mathis' department handled parking enforcement, law enforcement vehicles parked at expired meters at the Judicial Center were not ticketed.
"The officers are down there ... on duty," the chief said. "They aren't down there parking to have a good time at the courthouse. They hate going to the courthouse."
Not letting up
Kimbrough met separately with Mathis and McNesby to discuss the parking issue. The sheriff and chief asked for the same thing — that the parking courtesy be extended to law enforcement once again.
The DIB's answer: No.
"The curbside spaces are the most valuable," Kimbrough said. "Whether it's retail or a restaurant or whether it's a professional firm, those spaces are critical to that business's success. They can't be clogged with folks who are performing a non-emergency type of response just because they are a public employee."
The DIB is allowing marked law enforcement vehicles to park for free at any of the parking lots and garages it manages downtown when parking is available.
He said unmarked vehicles aren't permitted to park for free because it would be impractical for staff to determine whether an unmarked car is a law enforcement vehicle.
The invitation to park for free in the parking lots and garages didn't appease Mathis or McNesby.
"What about the investigators and the undercover narcotics people?" McNesby asked. "They will not grandfather them in and permit them to park in the same parking garage driving county cars. It creates a tremendous problem."
McNesby said he is not sure what to do because of the number of Sheriff's Office employees who conduct business downtown, including process servers who hand out subpoenas.
But Kimbrough said the issue is fairness.
If law officers park for free on downtown streets, fewer spaces will be available for people conducting business at the courthouse, the county administration building and City Hall, he said.
Emergencies exempt
Law enforcement officers can park anywhere in emergency situations. So can firefighters and others, like city or county workers responding to a water-main break that threatens public safety, Kimbrough said.
But other than for emergencies, curbside parking spaces can't be occupied for long periods.
In an ironic twist, a Pensacola police officer received a ticket while responding to a call from the DIB last week.
The DIB called police and reported that signs had been taken off light poles downtown. The officer who responded to the DIB received a warning ticket on his marked cruiser for being parked at an expired meter.
"The concern is where do you draw the line, because there are multiple entities that believe they should be able to park wherever they want to," Kimbrough said.

We are not taking "police action" so we can not park in the metered parking...ok, well I took police action thats causing me to be here!!! Im here because of the burglar I arrested breaking into your house! Or because I arrested a man beating his wife! I am here because of the police action I took. You think I want to be here?...Come on chief..sheriff...tell them how it is and tell them to go pack sand. I heard thats what FHP is doing.

There are cross walks downtown, I hope the DIB officer use them, they can't void a real ticket!! why should we give them a break since they can't give us one.

316.130

(1) A pedestrian shall obey the instructions of any official traffic control device specifically applicable to the pedestrian unless otherwise directed by a police officer. Any pedestrian crossing a roadway at a point where a pedestrian tunnel or overhead pedestrian crossing has been provided shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway. (14) No pedestrian shall cross a roadway intersection diagonally unless authorized by official traffic control devices, and, when authorized...


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316.130 Pedestrian obedience to traffic control devices and traffic regulations.--

(1) A pedestrian shall obey the instructions of any official traffic control device specifically applicable to the pedestrian unless otherwise directed by a police officer.

(2) Pedestrians shall be subject to traffic control signals at intersections as provided in s. 316.075, but at all other places pedestrians shall be accorded the privileges and be subject to the restrictions stated in this chapter.

(3) Where sidewalks are provided, no pedestrian shall, unless required by other circumstances, walk along and upon the portion of a roadway paved for vehicular traffic.

(4) Where sidewalks are not provided, any pedestrian walking along and upon a highway shall, when practicable, walk only on the shoulder on the left side of the roadway in relation to the pedestrian's direction of travel, facing traffic which may approach from the opposite direction.

(5) No person shall stand in the portion of a roadway paved for vehicular traffic for the purpose of soliciting a ride, employment, or business from the occupant of any vehicle.

(6) No person shall stand on or in proximity to a street or highway for the purpose of soliciting the watching or guarding of any vehicle while parked or about to be parked on a street or highway.

(7) When traffic control signals are not in place or in operation, the driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way, slowing down or stopping if need be to so yield, to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within a crosswalk when the pedestrian is upon the half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is traveling or when the pedestrian is approaching so closely from the opposite half of the roadway as to be in danger. Any pedestrian crossing a roadway at a point where a pedestrian tunnel or overhead pedestrian crossing has been provided shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway.

(8) No pedestrian shall suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk or run into the path of a vehicle which is so close that it is impossible for the driver to yield.

(9) Whenever any vehicle is stopped at a marked crosswalk or at any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection to permit a pedestrian to cross the roadway, the driver of any other vehicle approaching from the rear shall not overtake and pass such stopped vehicle.

(10) Every pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway.

(11) Between adjacent intersections at which traffic control signals are in operation, pedestrians shall not cross at any place except in a marked crosswalk.

(12) No pedestrian shall, except in a marked crosswalk, cross a roadway at any other place than by a route at right angles to the curb or by the shortest route to the opposite curb.

(13) Pedestrians shall move, whenever practicable, upon the right half of crosswalks.

(14) No pedestrian shall cross a roadway intersection diagonally unless authorized by official traffic control devices, and, when authorized to cross diagonally, pedestrians shall cross only in accordance with the official traffic control devices pertaining to such crossing movements.

(15) Notwithstanding other provisions of this chapter, every driver of a vehicle shall exercise due care to avoid colliding with any pedestrian or any person propelling a human-powered vehicle and give warning when necessary and exercise proper precaution upon observing any child or any obviously confused or incapacitated person.

(16) No pedestrian shall enter or remain upon any bridge or approach thereto beyond the bridge signal, gate, or barrier after a bridge operation signal indication has been given. No pedestrian shall pass through, around, over, or under any crossing gate or barrier at a railroad grade crossing or bridge while such gate or barrier is closed or is being opened or closed.

(17) No pedestrian may jump or dive from a publicly owned bridge. Nothing in this provision requires the state or any political subdivision of the state to post signs notifying the public of this provision. The failure to post a sign may not be construed by any court to create liability on the part of the state or any of its political subdivisions for injuries sustained as a result of jumping or diving from a bridge in violation of this subsection.

(18) No pedestrian shall walk upon a limited access facility or a ramp connecting a limited access facility to any other street or highway; however, this subsection does not apply to maintenance personnel of any governmental subdivision.

(19) A violation of this section is a noncriminal traffic infraction, punishable pursuant to chapter 318 as either a pedestrian violation or, if the infraction resulted from the operation of a vehicle, as a moving violation.