Apopka staff begin fixing one-way alley rules after sanitation, safety concerns

Apopka city staff and committee members agreed Thursday to pursue code changes after sanitation and public-safety officials said one-way alleys create operational and liability problems for garbage collection and emergency access. The Development Review Committee discussed a mix of short-term amendments and a planned land development code rewrite to address the issue.

The committee said the immediate concern is sanitation trucks having to travel against one-way traffic or rely on nonstandard maneuvers to access trash receptacles. A public-works representative said sanitation crews require cans to be on the truck’s right side and that some one-way alley layouts force trucks into unsafe patterns. "The trucks need to have the garbage cans on their right side," a public-works…