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Ingleside resident urges city help for repeated damage from adjacent bar parking
Summary
A resident told the council that vehicles from a neighboring bar’s parking lot repeatedly ran over his residential fence and damaged his RV; he asked the city for a physical barrier and enforcement help after staff advised the lot owner had told him to install fencing.
During citizen comments at the May 13 meeting, Roger Miller of 2562 First Street told the council vehicles from the Buckhorn Bar’s parking lot have repeatedly driven onto his residential property, causing damage to a newly installed fence and an RV.
Miller said he has experienced multiple incidents in which vehicles ran over or struck his fence and rammed the side of his RV. He said he took a civil action in small claims court but was told the court said the issue was governed by city code and not small claims jurisdiction. He said he had spoken with a staff member named Bernard (city staff) who told him his property is in a commercial zone and described limitations the city communicated to him.
Miller asked the council to require the bar owner to install a bollard, ballard or other physical barrier to prevent vehicles from driving onto his property; he said the owner’s daughter had told him two weeks earlier they would do so but the daughter subsequently was fired and the work was not completed. Miller said he can tolerate noise and other nuisances but that the repeated impacts to his fence are his primary concern.
Mayor and council acknowledged the comment and the city manager referred the item to staff reports; Miller said he would appreciate help from the city to resolve what he termed a recurring property and nuisance problem.
