City of Walnut Creek Parking Enforcement Center

I hope that all Bay Area residents stop coming to Walnut Creek, shopping there is no longer any fun. It is all about the revenue and nothing about customer satisfaction
Boycott all stores and restaurants !!! Parking Is the absolute worst in the entire Bay Area

I think the city of Walnut Creek’s prerequisite for parking enforcement must be a low standard bar… must just be a miserable person and miserable with life! I got two parking tickets in the lovely city of Walnut Creek. One time I was coming out of a restaurant on a holiday right at the time my time was expiring. A man was writing me out a ticket as I was walking out telling him I’m moving and he just smirked and continued to write me out a ticket saying «Happy holiday» with a smug look on his face.
Then another ticket for parking at the farmers market and not paying a meter on a Sunday. Please! Not even San Francisco has metered parking on a Sunday.
Oh and don’t even get me started about the parking meters at my hair salon which allow only two hours even when paying with a credit card. Who the hek wants to run out of their hair salon with foils in their hair to feed the meter because they have a cut off time of two hours! How about no parking meters on Sundays and allowing people to pay with a credit card for the amount of time they planned to be parked?

Recently I was fined a parking ticket at Walnut Creek. At the time that I paid, the meter read that it would expire at 7:38 pm. When my friend and I got to the car at 7:38 pm, I found a ticket that charged me for exceeding my time at 7:16 pm. This is possibly the second time this has happened to me, so I’m sure it’s happened to others. See Edit: [Would appreciate if you would let me know if it happens to you too. Maybe we can work together to get the City of Walnut Creek to do something about this! They must get so many people with this…]
EDIT: I recommend you contact the City of Walnut Creek Ticketing and Traffic Department. They were actually really helpful and got my ticket resolved! I highly recommend you appeal your ticket if you believe there was a mistake. They were really helpful, speedy, and friendly: D. Changed my one star to four stars!

Just wanted to update everyone that it has indeed been more than a year and I kept to my commitment to avoid spending money in Walnut Creek. If they’re going to extort parking fees then they don’t deserve my business. Was it worth it?

Parked on Giammona Drive today at precisely 12:41 pm, paid at the metered parking and quickly rushed to the Walnut Creek farmer’s market to pick up 4 – 5 things from a couple of the produce stands. The meter was supposed to run out at 12:56 pm, and by the time I rushed back it was 1:00 pm — I was late by exactly 4 minutes and caught the parking enforcement officer desperately punching away a citation. I approached her (the name is Fitzpatrick), and she hands me a citation (time on the citation: 1 pm) for $ 45 with a made-​up story that the meters give you a grace-​period of an additional 5 minutes, before they expire (and she insisted on that!).
Either her math is screwed up or mine, and I know that I was never THAT bad in math. In which case, either her integrity is screwed up or mine, and I know that I have gotten one too many times in trouble for saying it like it is, and for being honest and candid.
Just to negate her claim and fight this citation, I fed into the meter a few more minutes worth, recorded the so-​called ‘grace-​period’ granted by the meter on my cell-​phone, and realized that the time of expiration is exactly your coin’s worth. The lights went from green to red in ‘exactly’ 2 minutes after that.
Also, she insisted that she doesn’t know when the meter expired. If the lights on my meter went from green to red at 12:58pm, and she hands me a citation for 1pm, how on earth was she able to park, walk-​over to my car, punch an elaborate citation with the vin. number and everything by 1pm, if she did not see the light go from green to red?
Dear Walnut Creek Parking Enforcement Department: If you need money, do it with integrity. I wouldn’t mind ‘donating’ you some, if you had asked. But letting loose these kind of loathsome lying officers all over town, makes one lose trust in the law enforcement department entirely.

Parking meter expired before time ran out! (had bought for 2 hours). It’s a scam. I’m not shopping in Walnut Creek anymore.

As other reviewers have commented, Walnut Creek has extended its $ 2-​per-​hour parking-​meter hours until 8 pm EVEN ON SUNDAY (can you name a single civilized city on the West Coast that does that?) They’ve also gotten rid of merchant validation at the city parking lots, and you now need a credit card to even get into the lots. The city, in its infinite and outrageous greed, has labeled a number of parking spots as «commercial plates only» … and that applies 24/​7, even after 6 pm and all day Sunday when NOBODY is doing construction or commercial deliveries. Tickets start at 45 bucks, and if you appeal a ticket and your appeal is denied, they slap on a $ 100 penalty.
They REALLY want to kill downtown! For myself, I just refuse to do any shopping there any more!

Disgraceful way to generate revenue. I hadn’t realized that the parking meters were active on Sundays because in every other city in the world just about you don’t have to pay on Sunday. I parked my car and went on with what I was doing. OK I can understand that this is a jacked up city and they don’t mind squeezing residents and visitors for every dime they can. I screwed up and didn’t pay on a Sunday that’s fine. But when I came back I had not just one parking ticket but two. They gave me two tickets for the same violation! This is not parking enforcement should someone happen to let the meter expire, they are hunting for people and trying to screw them over. Pathetic.

Can we just please get rid of paid parking and time slots. Really guys it’s the 21^st century and this is a very wealthy city. I’m sure you get plenty of money from the outlets. Make shopping /​parking here an enjoyable experience. It’s not that hard. Not to mention trying to find parking as an employee of Walnut Creek is near impossible. Please just stop screwing us over. Or at least make your treatment among customers and employees consistent. It took me close to 40 minutes to find a spot where I wouldn’t get a ticket before I clocked in to work. That’s 40 minutes of unpaid time and not really enjoying any of it. Please get your crap together.

I need to vent, not that it’s going to do any good… But if you read this post, it may save you the trouble that I have gone through…
First off, do you know that if you receive a parking ticket in Walnut Creek, that it’s handled strictly through the Walnut Creek Police Department???
Our son was trying to register his car with DMV but was told that he had a $ 145 parking ticket to pay… They sent us over to the court house to get information on the ticket as he didn’t recall receiving a ticket. The court had no information in their system regarding the parking ticket, we checked with Lafayette P.D. and they had no record, however, a very nice woman researched it for us and told us to check with W.C.P.D., which we did. I called and spoke with an officer who told me that parking tickets will not show up in either DMV database nor the CC Court database. WCPD handles their own parking tickets… The ticket was issued on a Sunday in December, my son was thinking that Sundays didn’t count. Originally the fine was for $ 45 which seems to me to be just a little high… In addition to that, they tacked on a $ 100 late fee!!! I asked the officer if we could somehow go to the court and try to have the late fee lowered, her reply in a nasty tone of voice was NO!
I am not disputing the fact that the ticket was late… What really angers me, is the amount of the ticket to begin with and the $ 100 late fee!!! Thanks for letting me vent

I fell into the trap of the $ 45 ticket, on Sat, Valentines day in Walnut Creek!
I parked at the Lesher garage, since all the downtown lots were full
Since I have a 2011 Ford Escape SUV with luggage rack, I parked in the 6“5 area, next to other SUVS. I did not have a measuring tape but compared to others mine was close. When I returned there was a ticket:((.
When we talked to the Garage attendant, he said he has asked the City of Walnut Creek not to ticket in their garage, but they are the Parking «POLICE»! .You would think that with all their rich customers with Tesla and Valet parking, there would be some justice for the average shopper in Walnut Creek.
I will reconsider going to Walnut Creek.

Don’t do business in Walnut Creek.
For the second time, I’ve fallen into the parking fine trap in Walnut Creek, California. In the last few years they’ve installed parking meters that notify their police officers as soon as you park, and they immediately set out to issue tickets. Twice, on a lazy Saturday or Sunday with lots of spots open, I stopped in front of a Starbucks to grab a coffee for the long ride home. I didn’t even think about the meter, and was in the nearly empty store for about 1 – 2 minutes max. I came out to find a $ 45 ticket on my car.
I understand that they’ve raised parking fines and are proud about how they’re making money for the city. I plan to do no more business in such an unfriendly city.

This is there 3^rd time a get a ticket for $ 45 within 2 months. Last 2 times have been meter malfunction and I’ve been able to get them removed but problems keep happening with these meters and I hope to get this 3^rd removed as well.
FIX YOUR METERS…

$ 45 ticket for parking after 7pm in an area where most business are closed or greatly reduced flow!!! And no signage to tell a person that WC has «extended» metering hours?! I will not be shopping/​dining in Walnut Creek again. My dollars will be going to a city that doesn’t have rapacious parking metering. For shame Walnut Creek. For shame!