The city of Lantana, Fla., fined Zenaida “Sandy” Martinez $250 a day for 407 straight days for partially parking on her property’s grass
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- A Florida homeowner accumulated more than $100,000 in fines for improperly parking in her driveway
- Zenaida “Sandy” Martinez filed a complaint against the city of Lantana, Fla., in 2021, arguing excessive fines
- After a lower court rejected the case, Martinez appealed to the Supreme Court of Florida
A Florida homeowner must pay more than $100,000 in outstanding fees for improperly parking on her own property after the state’s Supreme Court declined to hear her appeal that argued excessive fines.
Zenaida “Sandy” Martinez initially filed a complaint against the city of Lantana, Fla., in February 2021, according to Circuit Court documents obtained by PEOPLE.
According to the complaint, Martinez owed more than $165,000 to the city “for trivial code violations” — about $100,000 primarily for parking in her driveway with two tires partially covering the grass, and more than $60,000 for two cosmetic violations. The complaint alleges that in total, the fines are “almost four times more than Sandy earns in an entire year.”…