That's what you get for listening to those who don't know or want to make the rules suit themselves.
To tell you the truth, after I got my car back, a few days later my roommate’s car got towed away too for the same reason.
We definitely learned the hard way. Since there were 3-4 of us living together in the same apartment, we agreed to take turns to carpool in one car and leave our cars parked at the shopping center’s parking lot overnight where we worked at the vegan restaurant.