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Hopatcong council debates carve-out, process change for commercial vehicle parking
Summary
Council members and staff debated adding a single-sentence carve-out to Hopatcong's commercial-vehicle parking rule to allow state-registered vehicles up to 19,500 pounds, and instead agreed to study an alternate process that would let residents apply for limited variances through the land-use board with a lower fee.
Hopatcong officials spent the April 17 work session debating how to handle large commercial vehicles parked in residential neighborhoods and whether to add a targeted exemption for state-registered vehicles.
The issue began with a staff overview that traced prior ordinance changes and enforcement problems and a recent complaint about a state-registered utility truck parked near a narrow roadway. The draft amendment under consideration would add one sentence to the borough’s 2017 commercial-vehicle parking rule to permit parking or garaging of vehicles registered to the State of New Jersey so long as they do not exceed 19,500 pounds.
The discussion focused less on the wording of that single sentence than on whether a carve-out for state vehicles is the right policy. Bill O’Connor, Hopatcong’s building…
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