i got blocked just today by someone parking partially in the yellow hash
marks between our 2 cars. a few weeks ago, i took 2 spots way out at the
end of the lot. they wrote me a warning for using 2
spots.... i answered back with this letter..."
laza Del Rio Management
Corp.
Dave O'Connell
9401 W. Thunderbird Rd.
Suite 200
5101 West Beryl Ave
Peoria Arizona 85381
Glendale 85302
To Whom it may
concern,
I drive a van with handicapped plates and a ramp which unloads from the
right side of my vehicle. This
ramp requires about eight feet of space on that side to allow room for me to
maneuver my electric wheelchair in and out of my van. I'm relatively independent in my
travels until someone parks beside me and blocks access to my ramp. I usually find all designated
handicapped spots up front taken whenever I go anywhere and I don't really
mind rolling in from the far end of the parking lot. I park crooked way out at the end to
make sure no one can block me out and I find that usually works, although not
always.
I'm thinking the
handicapped license plates or the hand controls easily viewable through the
window would give your parking lot attendants a clue that I need extra room to
enter and exit my vehicle.
If those clues don't help, then the missing driver's seat or the ramp
up against the sliding door might help them figure out I need extra
room.
I find it admirable you
are vigorously policing your lots for violations but if you could sprinkle a
little common sense in with your enthusiasm, possibly those of us who need the
extra room can take two spots out at the end of your lot where few people park
anyway without getting cited with a violation.
Perhaps you could mark
off a few extra wide spots way out at the end of your lots for those of us who
need extra room? The extra space
will need a bright yellow post that will physically block someone from parking
there as there are those who park on yellow hashed areas anyway because "they
just don't need the extra room."
(yes, that really happens too.)
Regards,
Dave O'Connell
