The Tuesday night town council meeting (streaming video link) started with a public comment from Steve Morgon about parking on the grass and limits on vehicles. Like I suspected he talked about the towns enforcement of this ordinance and the affect it is having on him and his home business.
Steve made a few comments worth noting. The first was that the town issued during the last 60 days 414 citations for parking on the grass and another 160 letters about having 5 vehicles or more. He also had pictures of town vehicles that were parked on the grass seemingly in violation of their own codes.
He asked that there should be adjustments to the ordinance. Removing the restrictions on boats, campers, and trailers, and that allowing for short term cars for sale to be placed in yards.
Steve ended by saying that unless something could be done he might have to move his business out to the county. Sadly this would be the result of restrictive regulations. A loss of taxes and another unneeded cost for a business.
The town council did say a special workshop is needed to start the process to pass a package liquor ordinance. The law will take two months to pass and since we are just shy of 40,000 they will only allow three permit/licenses to be initially issued.
The rest of the meeting had little in the way of eye opening events.
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2 comments:
The "parking on the grass" issue should be a no-brainer.
Who owns the grass? The city or the homeowner?
The homeowner!
Who owns the car?
The homeowner!
Who should decide whether they want to park their car on their grass?
The homeowner.
Cars parked on the grass of homes looks ghetto. I can tolerate the for sale situation, but it still is ugly on the eyes.
What kind of home business does this guy have that he needs all these cars parked at his home, plus his own 5-9 cars? I am thankful I am not his neighbor.
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