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Residents press Needles officials over truck parking, oil stains and blocked fire access on Ice Plant Road
Summary
Residents and a presenter showed photos and urged the city to enforce parking rules on Ice Plant Road and Highway 95; staff said the city and sheriff have issued hundreds of citations, are pursuing grants for enforcement and will follow up on oil stains and property-owner remediation.
At a Nov. 12 City Council meeting, Christian Schaefer presented photo evidence and a detailed account of repeated truck parking and idling on Ice Plant Road and adjacent Highway 95, saying the vehicles obstruct emergency access, block driveways and have left oil contamination on a vacant lot.
Schaefer described long idling periods — which he said were sometimes 34 hours — and recounted a personal…
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