Sharonville council adopts emergency ordinance to give enforcement 'teeth' for shared-use path parking

Sharonville City Council voted unanimously to adopt emergency ordinance 2025-38-E after moving to suspend the rules for immediate effect. The measure is intended to provide enforcement authority to address people parking on the city's shared-use path.

Safety Service Director Lucas told council the city has experienced instances of vehicles parked on the recently opened shared-use path, including an example near Colonial Gardens. "Tonight's legislation... would give them some teeth to potentially cite people for doing that," Lucas said, describing the change from informal handling to explicit citation authority.

The council first moved to suspend the rules to allow a first-and-only reading. That suspension was moved and seconded (Lovett and Cox) and carried on voice vote; the committee then held readings of other related traffic and paving legislation, including a second reading of amended emergency ordinance 2025-35-E directing the Safety Service Director to repave Fortney Lane and a first reading of emergency ordinance 2025-37-E adopting preliminary Ohio Department of Transportation legislation. The first-and-only reading for ordinance 2025-38-E was moved and seconded, a roll call yielded unanimous "yes" votes from Tankersley, Sharpshire, Cook, Lovett, Cox, Knight and Schmidt, and the ordinance was approved as an emergency measure.

Council president noted there were no resident speakers during the public-comment call that followed. The council also confirmed future meeting and committee schedules and closed the meeting.