Greetings All, I had the occasion to visit Mount Rainier to shop at Glut, the local food coop, after an appointment at the Washington Hospital Center. I thought I had enough time in the parking meter but when I walked out, the parking policeman, on his segway, had just written a $30.00 parking ticket.  I immediately went to the City Hall to pay it - and was told "no checks if you do not live in the town, and no credit cards, cash only...."  Well, I did have $30.00.   Such parking ticket fines would not encourage visitors to this town.  I will think twice about ever coming back here to shop and I would do a lot of research before investing there or moving there.  In my business travels dealing with historic real estate in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, I have witnessed too many little town governments that appear to be essentially "municipal rackets" with lots of town employees and questionable payback in terms of town services for the taxes paid.


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