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by btilly 1420 days ago
The "improper parking on a private space" example in the story a few posts up strongly suggests that the car was parked in their own driveway. And yet the car was towed and impounded.

Even in the event of a street closure, I expect that a car parked on my own driveway is fine. And since I'm not using public space to store it, your "public space to store your car" comment is not applicable.

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The filming crew towed the cars to a school's parking lot. When the school opened the cars were towed and impounded.
Thanks for the correction.

I understand how that happened, but wow. I hope that the filming crew was forced to pay for this.

A lot of cities require that the city tows the car, rather than the filming crew. Exactly to avoid this kind of problem.

This is correct. My neighbour had some of their cars parked in their driveway on their own property.

Film crew moved all of their cars off of their own property down to the school.

Once school opened up, they were now “improperly parked” (by the film crew) and fines were issued and one of the cars was impounded.

I took it to mean it was improperly parked at the school.