Fort Lauderdale City Hall

Kim Usiak

I got hit by the parking enforcement for $40 walking back out to my car as time expired...do they watch the time left on the meters???...crazy

Mel Carter

Nice security /police officer (maybe) working in the building. Very helpful cheerful and handsome.

yhtmstr

Just used the drive through to pay a utility bill. Easy way to pay but the touch screen could be a little more user friendly. 3 people in front of me had issues with it.

Eric Kaldor

BEWARE of parking in Fort Lauderdale- serious flaws. Have you been a victim??! Always place your printed ticket on your dashboard. Apparently you can pay by phone even though your phone doesn’t print out a paper ticket to put on your dashboard. Thus you’d think that once your license is entered into a machine in the parking lot and you pay then your ok. You may be VERY WRONG! Do NOT make the logical assumption that entering your license plate number into the parking machine prevents a parking ticket because it’s’ in the system’. It doesn’t. Only leaving it on your dashboard does. Apparently the city enforces parking on public and private lots like ‘las Olas parking’. It’s NOT at all easy to tell the difference for a tourist. The private lot machines according to the enforcement official we met upon returning to our car and another I called from the number on my violation do NOT communicate with the city system who enforces the parking!!! You can NOT take care of this by phone even if you have the official looking code on your parking receipt!!! You must either show up during business hours (not fun to do on vacation!) or send in the ORIGINAL and hope the original is not lost (a copy is apparently not accepted by the person I spoke to). The signage to describe this is POOR. It’s not on the machines and not on any signs I could see. It’s only in SMALL print (not presbyopia friendly!) at the bottom of your receipt. As you can see from the photos, the license number WAS entered correctly into the system and the time had NOT expired but it didn’t matter! It was not a fun use of my time to drive down to get this taken care of during business hours. Anyone know what city official is responsible for this poor system??? I wonder how many have been issued tickets under such circumstances???