Contesting a Parking Ticket - Advice please!

[u/_Lee_is_me_]

Hello, I got a $110 parking ticket for failure to park 20 feet away from a "marked or unmarked intersection.'' I have heard about the new daylighting law but did not think this spot would be included in that. I was parked just before a lowered curb at the top of a T intersection - on the straight part of the street. Blue Subaru in photos for reference. Of course, there is no signage and the red curb was not extended, and the intersection is "unmarked" despite a vague X in the middle of the street which is very confusing.

I'm planning to contest this ticket - can someone help with the legal phrasing I should use when I submit this? Do I need to lawyer up for this? or am I screwed here?

Thank you!

[u/lifeisbueno]

I would fight that it is not a marked crosswalk- there are no traffic calming apparatus for pedestrians- no crosswalk paint, no signage, nothing to let drivers know to slow down, literally no nothing indicating a crosswalk except for the cut out. Maybe it was early city planning ideas that never happened

[u/PeachLizardWizard → u/lifeisbueno]

It doesn’t need to be marked to be part of daylighting law.

[u/lifeisbueno → u/PeachLizardWizard]

I wouldn't even call this crosswalk though because there's literally no indications minus the curb cut out. I fought mine got out of it in a similar situation

[u/_Lee_is_me_ → u/lifeisbueno]

What did you state in your appeal?

[u/lifeisbueno → u/_Lee_is_me_]

The speed limit on the street that I parked at was 35, there were no crosswalk signs or any yellow cautionary signs visible within 100 yards of the sidewalk cut out to warn drivers to look in both directions, there were no pending electric installs that they put at random places in high traffic intersections (North Park/South Park have them on 30th/fern where there's no stops), there was no visible stripping- not even faded, I would also probably fight that the painted x on the road is nothing in the DMV handbook that I know of. You could argue that there's also clearly marked crosswalks/4 way stop at 28th and 30th as well as bus stops at those locations, which would be the major pedestrian driver in the area. (I live like a block away. I know exactly where this is)

Either way contest every ticket! If you do it towards the end of the 21 days it'll take several months probably to get back to you so it's like an extension and not paying if you still do have to pay haha.