councils suck ass!
Our Family has a shop which is next to the gepps cross markets. On sundays Our car park is full of tight arse bargain hunters going to the markets who should not be parking in our car park as they arent shopping at our complex. This Leaves no car parks for us the rent paying business owner. Once my brother had no choice, but to park in the disabled car space. He copped a $98 fine just becasue he had to park somewhere to open his shop and go to work otherwise he would have had to park 10 min walk away from work. The sign up says you arent meant to spend any longer than 15 minutes in the car park so the friken sticker licker ingnores the other cars that have been there for hours and fined my brother who owns the shop instead of the idiots who shouldnt even be parking there. We tried to contest this fine and nothing happened the council only offered a discount on the fine and longer to pay it. So They could have dropped it all together if they wanted, but bcoz they are a holes they didnt
Our local councils are a F*N joke.
Another example of fantastic use of the rates we pay them i have is.
In front of our house there was a gum tree that was obviously rotten(really badly deteriorating). We contacted the council to get it removed, but after they had sent someone to "professionally assess it" they said it was definately not rotten and was a significant tree Due this they wouldn't remove it nor allow us to remove it.
Needless to say two weeks later the bloody thing fell on the house crushed the fence and verandah. Now after all this who do you think paid for the repairs??? Definately not the council, they refused. The idiot that we dealt with said "well thats why you should have house insurance" which luckily we do. However, our premium went up as a result. A holes!
thats my 2 cents
Timmay fight it as much as you can all you did was park in front of your residence for which you and your parents pay quaterly to the council to live in.