{"id":269426,"date":"2026-05-13T13:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269426\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:25:08","slug":"port-st-lucie-approves-higher-parking-violation-fines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269426\/","title":{"rendered":"Port St. Lucie approves higher parking violation fines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe City of Port St. Lucie has approved higher fines for parking violations.Stay up to date: The latest headlines and weather from WPBF 25City council members voted to amend the city\u2019s parking code, doubling the daily fine for parking violations from $25 to $50.People found guilty of parking offenses will also face higher penalties.The fine for a first offense is increasing from $100 to $200. A second offense will now cost $350, up from $200. A third offense will increase to $500.City officials say the changes are meant to strengthen enforcement and discourage repeat violations.Get the latest weather updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it here.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tPORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The City of Port St. Lucie has approved higher fines for parking violations.<\/p>\n<p>Stay up to date: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The latest headlines and weather from WPBF 25<\/a><\/p>\n<p>City council members voted to amend the city\u2019s parking code, doubling the daily fine for parking violations from $25 to $50.<\/p>\n<p>People found guilty of parking offenses will also face higher penalties.<\/p>\n<p>The fine for a first offense is increasing from $100 to $200. A second offense will now cost $350, up from $200. A third offense will increase to $500.<\/p>\n<p>City officials say the changes are meant to strengthen enforcement and discourage repeat violations.<\/p>\n<p>Get the latest weather updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/article\/get-wpbf-25-news-on-the-go\/999316\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Port St. Lucie has approved higher fines for parking violations.Stay up to date: The latest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[187,115664,19331,705,115663,115667,6686,15082,5127,115666,115669,171,173,172,115668,221,115665],"class_list":["post-269426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-city","tag-daily-fine","tag-date","tag-enforcement","tag-high-parking-violation-fine","tag-high-penalty","tag-late-headline","tag-late-weather-update","tag-news-app","tag-parking-code","tag-parking-offense","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-repeat-violation","tag-weather","tag-wpbf-25city-council-member"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}