Resident attorney urges Dickinson to enforce zoning after years of vehicles, oil and blocked driveways on First Street East

Attorney Sandra Kuntz pressed the Dickinson City Commission on Tuesday to enforce the city’s commercial zoning and nuisance ordinances at the 900 block of First Street East, saying repeated parking, oil deposits and what she described as daily outdoor storage by a nearby auto-repair business have persisted for “the better part of a decade.”

Kuntz, representing property owner Anthony Kleinmachter, told the commission the city’s supplemental-use rule (section 3906) requires outdoor storage tied to auto repair to be “completely screened as to not be visible from residential areas or public rights of way,” and that a blanket application of the city’s 48-hour rule for parked vehicles has been used to evade that requirement.

“Your ordinance says outdoor storage must be in the four corners of your lot and not visible to the public right-of-way,” Kuntz said. “We are asking that you change and clarify that the interpretation of the 48‑hour parking provision is not available to skirt the requirements of the…