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Residents urge Parma Heights City Council to define truck rules by dimensions rather than vehicle classes
Summary
At the May 8 council meeting residents pressed council members to clarify proposed truck-parking limits, arguing vehicle-class designations are legally and practically imprecise and urging dimension-based rules (height/width/length) to avoid unfair enforcement and safety issues.
PARMA HEIGHTS, Ohio — Residents at the Parma Heights City Council meeting on May 8 urged council members to scrap or refine a plan that would rely on vehicle-class categories to limit truck parking in neighborhoods, saying class-based rules risk unfair enforcement and practical confusion.
At the public-comment portion of the meeting, several speakers described safety and quality-of-life problems they say arise from large trucks parked on neighborhood streets. Vitaliy Melnychuk told the council that relying on manufacturer classes or weight categories ‘‘is going to be unfair if you go by…
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