Access/Egress from a County Park

[Sorbe]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? WA

The parks department is now blocking egress from a park unless you can show that you've paid a parking fee. This applies even if you have not actually parked your vehicle. Further, they are only blocking egress eastbound from the park, using a "toll booth" that requires evidence of parking lot payment. Egress from the park westbound is completely unencumbered, there is no "toll booth" in that direction.

Their signage claims this is authorized under a Country Ordinance covering parking fees in recreational areas. (Ordinance 6798 - 7.09).

[url]http://www.kingcounty.gov/council/legislation/~/media/Council/documents/Clerk/CodeFiles/10_Title_7.ashx[/url]

Possible Issues:
[1] They are blocking a right of way that has long been established.
[2] They are misusing a parking lot fee as an admission (egress?) fee.
[3] The doing discriminatory enforcement by only blocking the east gate.

Under which guise would you challenge this (ab)use of the ordiance governing a county park.

[ecmst12]

None of those items are against the law, so there is no legal grounds to challenge the gate.