Drivers in the City of Laguna Woods, California are finding themselves hit with traffic tickets as private cops set 15 MPH speed traps within the gates of Laguna Woods Village, a four square mile retirement community that is home to 18,000 residents with an average age of 78. It is one of the largest senior homeowners associations in the country, and it is earning significant revenue from traffic tickets.
Laguna Woods, eh? It used to be “Leisure World,” or as we called it when we lived nearby, “Seisure World.” The Ralph’s supermarket adjacent to Leisure World sold more liquor than any store of any kind in California.
Traffic tickets for revenue seems to be an increasing trend all over.
Isn’t it unusual for a homeowners association get a share of the traffic ticket revenue for their town?
Wait till they see that it is the residents, their visiting friends and relatives and service workers, who get the tickets. Unless the public has to drive through there to get to somewhere else.
“The village claims that it has the right to ticket resident motorists as a private homeowners association. Several residents intend to challenge that authority.”