Coral Gables To Vote This Week On Truck Ordinance
CORAL GABLES (CBSMiami) – Coral Gables officials will hold a workshop on Monday to discuss modifying a current ban on parking pick up trucks overnight in the city.
On Wednesday, the commission will take their first vote on the ordinance.
Existing rules prohibit trucks from being parked overnight on city streets or in residential driveways.
The ordinance the commission will be voting on this week allows residents to have one truck per household. However, each pick-up truck would have to have a hard top on the truck bed, the truck must be parked in a home's driveway, as close to the home as possible, and with the truck's bed facing the home, not the street.
Truck owners who park on the swales would receive tickets.
The modified ordinance would also specify that the rule against parking pickup trucks in commercial parts of the city would take effect only when the parking meters run out. That is a change from the original 7PM to 7AM ban.
Truck owners who break the rules would first be given a warning. After that it's a $100 fine for a second offense and then up to $500 dollar a day for subsequent offenses.
