Section 63 carpark

Having paid $93M for the site I would think the owners should like the inspectors patrolling their carpark armed with little yellow envelopes and fancy handheld printers.

There is no sharing of carparking proceeds. ACT Govt gets things like stamp duty, land tax and rates from the block. Not to mention all the associated development statutory charges.

jakez said :

I imagine private car park owners come to some sort of contractual arrangement with the ACT Govt magpies. This saves them from hiring their own inspectors, writing out their own fines based on the contractual agreement one enters into upon parking, and then fighting it in court.

The ACT Government gets a cut of the revenue to cover cost and make it worth their while.

Everyone wins…………wait.

So why does the ANU have it’s own Parking Inspectors? Why wouldn’t they just invite the regualr Brown Bombers on Campus and let the ANU Security look out for art work being knocked off instead of booking cars parking without a permit?

It is as Bundybear has said. Had to go through the process a few years ago to get them to ticket people who would park for free in our eight-space carpark to go over to the plaza.

I imagine private car park owners come to some sort of contractual arrangement with the ACT Govt magpies. This saves them from hiring their own inspectors, writing out their own fines based on the contractual agreement one enters into upon parking, and then fighting it in court.

The ACT Government gets a cut of the revenue to cover cost and make it worth their while.

Everyone wins…………wait.

587 cars got warning tickets there yesterday.

As of Monday the ACT Government now patrols it and takes a cut of revenue.

Owners can make a request that parking areas be policed, and a decision will be made based on that individual location. I’m aware of a request for an area to be policed that was only knocked back because it was behind gates. I’d bet that’s what’s happened here, be greatful there appears to be a period of warning/informing before they slap on the big bucks. ACT govt. policy – ensure anyone who drives is made to pay pay pay in an effort to make them catch a non existent bus that may / may not arrive on time / ever at a bus stop near / nowhere near you

I’m pretty sure parking inspectors can book you anywhere. A few years ago I was booked in the Woden Plaza multistorey carpark and when I complained to the cashier I was told that if a carpark is privately owned or not it makes no difference to the brown bombers.

There could simply be an agreement in place with the owners of the land, which provides jurisdiction for the parking inspectors. At least with commonwealth owned land, such agreements exist. Im sure we would have at least one reader who is a parking inspector who could answer the question…

Don’t know if they are entitled to hand out fines – the zoning could still be part of their jurisdiction. Perhaps they are giving warnings as opposed to fines in fairness to the drivers? Next time I guess they will be handing out fines…