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Trustees reject golf-cart ordinance after safety concerns on hilly roads
Summary
Trustees debated Ordinance 26-01 to allow regulated golf-cart/low-speed vehicle operation on village streets but voted it down after residents and trustees raised safety concerns on narrow, curvy roads.
The Village Board considered Ordinance 26-01, which would have added a chapter regulating golf carts, low-speed vehicles, and similar vehicles on municipal streets. Supporters said the ordinance would create registration, inspection and speed limits and give the sheriff authority to enforce violations. Opponents — and some trustees — said local roads are narrow and hilly and that allowing the vehicles would create safety hazards.
After discussion and two readings by title, trustees took a roll-call vote. Several trustees said they could not support the ordinance because of steep, curvy roads and mixed heavy-vehicle traffic. The motion to adopt the ordinance failed on the board floor; trustees said they might revisit the idea with stricter limits or by excluding specific roads from the ordinance if further work is done.
