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Council debates education requirement and enforcement focus for e-device ordinance
Summary
Staff proposed mandatory education (rather than registration) for e-device users and operational limits for e-motos; Police Chief Princeton Youker said out-of-class devices most frequently violate road rules, and Council directed staff to simplify ordinance language to focus on those devices.
Management Analyst Erik Berg told Council the draft ordinance would require mandatory education rather than registration for all electric device users and that the City would maintain recommended educational materials on its website. Berg said the education requirement could be narrowed (for example, applying only to users 16 and under or those without a driver's license) and that enforcement would likely occur only when officers stopped a user for unsafe or reckless operation.
Police Chief Princeton Youker told Council that "out-of-class electric vehicles, which are currently unregulated at the state and municipal level, are the devices that most frequently violate the rules of the road." Based on enforcement practicality, Councilmembers directed staff to simplify the ordinance language to focus on out-of-class devices and staff said they would present a revised ordinance for future review.
