That&#x27;s not how laws work.  You can&#x27;t have one set of rules for one stakeholder, and another set of rules for another.  Particularly when one of those stakeholders gets to acts as enforcement, judiciary AND beneficiary.<p>1 inch over the curb... we&#x27;re going to tow your car with $700 worth of fines.<p>No visible sign on the street and nothing within 100 ft (which there has to be by law)... it doesn&#x27;t matter,  you should have known we intended that street to have no parking between 4-6pm.<p>If you tried to come up with a system with more adverse and broken incentives, you&#x27;d be hard pushed to come up with a better one than the SFMTA.
1) Let&#x27;s saddle this organization with $10Ms of losses each year. 
2) Let&#x27;s give them the authority to issue tickets and fine the citizens for breaking an arbitrary set of laws.
3) Let&#x27;s allow them keep the fines and treat it as &#x27;revenue&#x27;.
4) Let&#x27;s allows them to regulate themselves and decided if the tickets they issued are fair.