Dear Cape Charles Mirror,
The Fourth of July was very busy this season, with much more out of town car traffic speeding through our streets. The safety of children and adults is compromised severely by street parking of boats, trailers, and RVs. To help alleviate the problem, I believe a couple of things could help to make it safer.
First, RVs are not to be parked in town or parked for overnight camping in town. All RVs are to use designated camping and storage facilities. Second, boats/trailers are not permitted to park on town streets. Parking lots exist for boat launches and storage areas exist for boat storage. They need to put them there.
Safety first
Boats have been parked everywhere always.
You actually state, With out of town traffic “speeding ” through our streets, and then state parked vehicles that are legally allowed on roadways are the problem. If safety is an issue bring the speeding vehicles to the attention of local law enforcement. Also, if you are really observant you will notice how the safety provisions for golf carts are not followed. Especially where children are concerned. If a trailer or RV parked are dangerous it’s only because the other vehicle operators are not driving safely.
Dear Safety First, start by using your real name instead of hiding behind an alias. After that, say what you mean instead of making straw man arguments. You say the problem is out of town visitors speeding through our streets. You propose to fix this problem by restricting permanent residents’ rights to park their boats and RV’s on the street. I live here full time. I was around all weekend. I did not see any of this dangerous lawlessness you reference, just a lot of people having fun. I did see the police report posted by the Mirror showing the outstanding job our local police are doing issuing citations to people that don’t respect the speed limit.
I think maybe you have a neighbor that parks their boat or RV on the street and it kind of burns your butt, so you make up this bogus safety issue to try to get some traction. If you can come up with a legitimate reason while people shouldn’t be able to park their properly registered and titled vehicles on public streets, please post it. Otherwise, politely ask your neighbor if they would consider moving their boat down the block a little.
Read the Town Ordinances on “parking”. The issue is addressed there.
I completely and totally agree with you!!!!!
Sec. 42-64. – Time limit for parking of trucks, trailers, etc.
It shall be unlawful for any person to park any truck, trailer, semi-trailer, van or bus exceeding a gross vehicle weight rating (GWVR) of 8,000 pounds upon any street or avenue in the town for a longer period of time than two hours, except in the front or to the side of any building used as a place of business.
Is it my understanding this means no parking of boats, trailers, RV for over 2 hrs on streets or am I misreading this?
Note: This is a good question for the town planner; I believe 42-64 deals with commercial vehicles in the commercial district. 42-90 deals with recreational vehicles (RVs, boats, etc.) in the residential areas.
I totally agree boats and trailers and campers should not be parked on the streets. We have limited street space for the existing residents and visitors. There are not a lot of driveways in Cape Charles, so owners and their guests have to park on the street. The problem is worse when we have park events and other such town celebrations which draws out of towners, and the parking is so limited. Most people store their boats, campers, etc in lots especially designed for these vehicles. Why are some folks not having to do the same? We should ticket the boats, campers and trailers.
Greed and wolves in sheep’s clothing. The new developments/projects in MY town that have and is changing the way that reflects The Haves and Have Not
society. It appears that property has been taken away from peoples who couldn’t afford to pay their taxes(unemployment factors), deceptive real estate transactions such as buying the homeowners home at a low price the relocation a residential homes community type environment built with government funding’s (Residential Structuring). Then that brought property , can now be sold at a higher price for profit and the town’s redevelopment program. I was born, raised and educated there and not an outsider and because of my military background and travel , whenever I got the chance I’d warn the people I knew about these coming events and even more so the Black community. Look at the town’s government and community structure ??????? You can’t snow a snowman
The complaint about loss of property is groundless. When you fail to pay taxes for 3 years, real property is subject to public sale. Those circumstances may force owners to sell to salvage something from their property. Who is to blame? Certainly not the Town or County which is following the established rules.