No prob.
After maybe $50,000 in legal fees, they’ll probably dismiss the fine.
And raise your property tax by the amount of the fine.
Section 3-1411.B.5 of the Code of Ordinances, Clearwater, Florida, does, indeed prohibit “spiral” type bike racks.
Setting aside their erroneous accusation that someone else installed it, one must still wonder why the city is allowed to use a type of rack that they, themselves, prohibit.
We spent how many billions defeating East Germany and the Soviet Bloc? Far too many people here are intent on recreating them.
The City is reducing parking capacity to cater to peddlers.
We got a citation from the city for having a unlocked freezer.
We called the inspector, told her that it was a locking freeze that was indeed locked. They came out, checked it and revoked the citation.
Guess what happened the following week?
After going around and around with them, and getting on first name terms with the code enforcement supervisor they finally quit. Then they began to find fault with our built up flower garden. Followed by the new concrete pads we had poured. It was "over standard." Who ever heard of something being cited because it was BETTER?
Finally told the code enforcement supervisor that we were seriously considering getting a lawyer because we were getting tired of the harassment.
That stopped it.
Illogical - The city takes away your sandwich boards, cites you for an eye sore and then takes away a parking spot for bike racks but cites you for same bike racks they installed.
I recall people in California being fined because they didn’t clear the brush around their homes for fire safety.
After they cleared the brush they were fined because they’d created an erosion risk.
Another example of why less government is best.
If memory serves, Clearwater is somewhat infamous as being a ‘Scientology town”. Don’t know if that factors in on this, though.
We can be quite sure that the city will take the same action itself that it undoubtedly demanded of the bike shop: to remove the bike rack, to restore the parking space to city and state specifications, all under the supervision of a dozen required workers from a variety of city departments, and within a very small number of days.