‘Looks like a money grab,’ seethes official after driver given 3 parking tickets – but he was allowed to park on street [Video]

AN overnight, street-side parking choice cost a small business nearly $100 after officers handed out three tickets.

Public officials joined the business owner, speaking out against the parking fines.

“I was kind of shocked,” Michael Groulx, the then-owner of a construction company in Saskatoon, Canada, told Canadian Broadcasting Corportation in 2018.

Groulx’s business had three trailers that normally parked in the private parking lot attached to its office.

But in October 2018, the business had contracted with the city to lay down new asphalt on its driveway, including around the public sidewalk.

Stanchions blocked cars from entering on the wet pavement, so the trailers had to be parked elsewhere.

Groulx said the city told …