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Resident urges Henrico to revise "tag and tow" criteria, offers to help draft standards
Summary
A Henrico resident called for the county to broaden its vehicle removal criteria used by the Community Maintenance Division, proposing a citizen-staff committee and a matrix of inspection factors to avoid removing stationary but potentially operable vehicles.
At the Sept. 23 meeting of the Henrico County Board of Supervisors, resident Jay West urged the board to revise the county’s "tag and tow" procedures for removing vehicles from public rights-of-way, arguing that the current practice—based primarily on a state statutory definition tied to license, inspection decal and operability—fails to identify clearly inoperable vehicles in some neighborhoods.
West described a nearby incident in which a badly…
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