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Parma Heights council debates limits on commercial vehicles in residential neighborhoods
Summary
At a April 10, 2023 work session, Parma Heights councilors discussed draft changes to ordinance 351.13 that would restrict parking of large commercial vehicles in single-family residential areas. Councilors agreed to refine dimensional language and consider a clear list of prohibited vehicle types; no vote was taken.
Council President Tom Rounds opened the April 10 work session by saying the meeting's purpose was to discuss a draft amendment to the city's commercial-vehicle parking rules and noted public comment is not permitted at a work session. Mayor Gallo told council the proposal came from the Building Department to address "very little regulations" in single-family residential districts and said "the point of this legislation is not to prohibit all commercial vehicles," but to limit large vehicles that residents say are appearing in neighborhoods.
The draft language read aloud by Council President Rounds would bar "any commercial truck, trailer or semitrailer exceeding twenty feet in length, seven…
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