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Villagers expand definition of handicapped parking in Florida’s Friendliest Hometown

By Staff Report

Villagers apparently have been expanding the definition of handicapped parking here in Florida’s Friendliest Hometown.

The Parking Patrol has been hard at work documenting cases here in The Villages where the meaning of the statutes governing handicapped parking may have been blurred.

This SUV was parked between two handicapped parking spots at the Dunedin pool and postal station.
This motorist tried a little diagonal parking at Fresh Market in The Villages.
This golf cart was parked at Lake Deaton Plaza.
The plate clearly indicates it has been assigned to a handicapped person, but not sure it automatically entitles you to two regular parking spaces.
Perhaps this is how it is done in Michigan.
This golf cart carved out a spot between two handicapped parking spaces at Wal-Mart at Buffalo Ridge Plaza.
This driver might be advised to keep it within the blue lines at a handicapped parking spot at Winn-Dixie at Pinellas Plaza.
A car with a handicapped plate takes up two spaces at Lake Sumter Landing.
These Buffalo Bills fans, without an apparent handicapped parking placard, were spotted encroaching on a handicapped spot.

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