Cities don't necessarily know if construction is going to happen a month in advance. Plans can change, so they have windows, sometimes decently large (months) w

Cities don't necessarily know if construction is going to happen a month in advance. Plans can change, so they have windows, sometimes decently large (months) windows to do the work. Something similar happened to me where my car was towed to the yard (law says it should've been relocated iirc) for being parked in a construction zone while I was on vacation. When I got back I didn't check on my car for a few days and when I finally went to my car, I found it was towed and that I needed to pay $800 to get my car out. Thing is -- the permits for the construction on that day were canceled. So they did construction without a permit. So when I attempted to contest it in court, I was pulled aside by the city's legal staff and told that they were throwing out the tickets, fines, and storage fees because they... didn't have enough information on the tickets. The judge signed the release and I had my car two hours later. It's hard to give any ounce of good faith to these systems when they do things like not tell you they're throwing the tickets out before the court date, nor do they have any semblance of automation to find those sorts of ticket gaps. For me, I was able to take a couple days off of work to do research and go to court, but that's not the case for so many people.