On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 19:32, stevea <stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote:
> In California, a common (not quite frequent, certainly not always) > arrangement at malls, supermarkets and other places with parking lots > (large and small) is a sign that reads "you can park here for three hours, > but after that we have the right to tow your car away." (Sometimes > punctuated with 'video surveillance active' to make the point fairly direct > and that "they mean business"). In my experience of driving-and-parking > for many decades, I personally have never gotten towed (the few times I've > gone over a time limit), I've never heard of anybody (that I personally > know) getting towed, but I have seen the extremely infrequent tow truck > towing a car that has likely been there a while — perhaps it was abandoned, > used for illegal purposes or was otherwise a public nuisance. > > So, while that "moderately serious consequence" of getting towed is > possible, it's rare. And, while this is not a "fee," it certainly turns > into a fairly large one once the bottom-line-costs, tow truck driver and > storage charges (per day, usually) are added together and paid to get one's > car back from the impound lot. > > If you are writing a proposal, this is a reality in certain parts of the > world the proposal should consider, if it wants to convey the full > situation (on Earth, in cars, with humans, on parking lots). In short, > what appears to be "simply" a fee can be fairly full-throated when it comes > to describing the entire semantic richness of the situation. > > A tag like maxstay is a good beginning. An additional tag of something > like towing_penalty=yes|no is a start down this road. > I'd just use the regular maxstay tag, I think most places if you overstay they can tow you. `fee:conditional = no @ maxstay < 3h` says you're allowed by the rules of the car park to park longer if you like, but you need to pay a fee to do so. This is different to the rules saying you're limited to 3hr and then issuing a fine or penalty for overstaying
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