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Residents, contractors press Glenarden officials over commercial-vehicle parking enforcement
Summary
Business owners and residents told the Glenarden City Council during a citizens-comment meeting that county commercial-vehicle rules and city fines are hurting livelihoods and creating enforcement confusion. City staff explained the limits of local authority and repeated county-size and lettering restrictions.
Hundreds of residents and several small-business owners spoke at a Glenarden City Council citizens-comment meeting to urge changes to how commercial vehicles are regulated and enforced in the city.
The council session on pending legislation focused heavily on a county code that restricts parking of commercial vehicles in residential areas and on a city fine that many residents said is driving small businesses to the brink. “You are taking $200 out of my children’s food,” said Victor, a construction worker and resident, testifying about fines he received. “You’re legally stealing from us,” another resident said.
The issue matters because Prince George’s County defines a commercial vehicle by weight, markings and configuration, and Glenarden must follow county limits. Mr. Green, the city’s director of code enforcement, read the county ordinance at the meeting and quoted Section 27‑6305(h)(2): “parking of commercial vehicles … is restricted to one commercial vehicle which may not exceed 8,500 pounds … may contain no advertising other…
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