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Police
Department/Code Enforcement Department,
Why do you constantly pick
and choose which vehicle parking laws to
enforce with our Code Enforcement
Department?
I reported an abandoned
commercial vehicle by Sundance Park in
March, 2012, that you had removed. And
it was like pulling teeth, as it took 1
year.
My neighbor on Sycamore
Circle (who moved this month and put her
house up for sale because Code Enforcement
could not control all the illegal
parking of business, residential, and
dumpster vehicles in our
neighborhood for the past year) told me
about Mr. Rooter trying to conduct business
out of our neighborhood in June,
2012. So, I took photos and
reported a commercial vehicles conducting
business on a corner in our
neighborhood. It took Code
Enforcement about 1 year before the
commercial vehicles stopped abandoning their
vehicles in our neighborhood, while still
conducting business in our residential
neighborhood, which is illegal.
I got an e-mail from the
Police Chief in May, 2012 defining City
Parking/Abandoning/Unmoving vehicles, from
our neighborhood, with the protocol of
tagging, before ticketing a vehicle to give
the owners a chance to move their vehicles.
About 8 years ago, a
neighbor tried to park his truck next
to our neighbor's house, when he had his
boat in his driveway for the summer. I
stopped Code Enforcement, when they went by,
and asked a few questions about our parking
code for residential vehicles. I was
told that we do, in fact, have a residential
parking code in effect. Our neighbor
had to move his truck back to his house to
park it in front of his house.
So, there are laws about
keeping one's vehicles on one's own
property, even though Code Enforcement tries
to "cherry pick", WHEN
to enforce those laws.
Allowing new folks in the
neighborhood to keep their numerous vehicles
stored and unmoved next to Sundance Park,
since the beginning of June, 2013, is
not enforcing our City Code for residential
parking at personal residences.
They have had 3 different
vehicles parked/stored/unmoved/abandoned
next to Sundance Park, since they moved
into the neighborhood in June, 2013. I
have reported these infractions to Code
Enforcement, who got one vehicle to move,
only to be replaced by another one of their
vehicles. This last vehicle has been
parked/worked on/stored/unmoved/abandoned
for 12 days in a row now. One of their
3 vehicles has been allowed to parked
next to Sundance Park, since June 1,
2013. That shows the Police
Department/Code Enforcement Department
is out of control.
When they moved into the
neighborhood, there was already an illegally
parked neighbor vehicle from 2 houses down,
that stored their vehicle with the
camper next to Sundance Park for 7
days, even after their company left.
So, of course, the new neighbors thought it
was OK to park next to Sundance Park
indefinitely.
We need to have the Police
Department/Code Enforcement Department do
its job legally. If a car
was unmoved next to any other park in
town, where folks could see it regularly,
you would have it taken care of immediately,
like you did with the tan car parked on
Hoover next to the park near Louisville
Elementary right away.
Because these
abandoned/unmoved/parked/stored vehicles are
in a cul-de-sac at the end of a dead end
road, you take advantage of the situation.
We in our neighborhood feel
that by the actions of the Police
Department/Code Enforcement Department that
bullying is occurring on a regular
basis, which can be very stressful to all of
us older folks in the neighborhood.
We in our neighborhood feel
that by the actions of the Police
Department/Code Enforcement
Department that because of the
constant, long term bullying, that
these Departments have no empathy at
all to what they have done to our
neighborhood.
There are many houses for
sale recently and now in our
neighborhood. Two are new
neighbors. Two more houses are up for
sale. With the neighborhood allowed to
look like a parking lot, houses are taking a
long time to sell, according to the sellers
I spoke with, before they moved away.
But with the bullying being
done in our neighborhood by the
Police Department/Code Enforcement
Department, this situation just
continues.
And because of the actions
of the Police Department/Code Enforcement
Department, when they do drive by,
folks do not feel comfortable
confronting them with the parking
situation, because they know how rudely I
have been treated for over 1 year now.
The actions of the Police
Department/Code Enforcement Department show
that they are holding grudges on a long term
basis for my trying to keep our neighborhood
up to City Code.
Holding grudges in a Police
position of authority makes for poor
decision making on the part of those in
control. It is also retaliation for my
trying to keep our neighbor up to City
Residential Parking Codes.
We in the neighborhood are
sure that this dark car unmoved by Sundance
Park with be taken care of in a professional
Police manner and not in a "Hostess Greeting
Committee" manner, with whining excuses for
having to enforce our laws, like I received
in an e-mail from the Police Chief in May,
2012.
Here is the proof of the
dark car still abandoned next to Sundance
Park.
Sincerely,
Bev Beaufait
P.S.
Chapter
17.20 OFF-STREET
PARKING AND LOADING [1]
Sec.
17.20.160. Motor vehicle parking
limitations.
B.
On residential lots, no
more than two motor vehicles
may be parked on any area of
the lot other than within a
fully enclosed structure or on
the paved driveway which is
intended for parking or access
to the garage or carport. A
motor vehicle which is parked
or stored on an improved
surface adjacent to a paved
driveway, or in a rear yard, a
side yard, or a side yard
adjacent to the street shall
be counted towards the limit
of two such vehicles. No more
than one such motor vehicle
may be an inoperable vehicle
as defined in section
8.16.040.D.1 of this Code.
Sec. 17.20.100.
- Parking spaces not to be
used for storage or advertising. Required parking spaces
shall be available for the parking of
operable passenger automobiles of
residents, customers, patrons, and
employees only, and shall not be
used for the storage of vehicles or
materials or for the parking of
trucks used in conducting the
business or use, or for the purpose
of advertising.(Code 1977,
§ 17.20.100; Ord. No.
715-1981, § 15)
This
is from our Ethics Code
"Open Government & Ethics Pamphlet
2013
Other Ethics Rules of Interest
Page 7
It also prohibits acts of
advantage or favoritism and, in that
regard, prohibits special
considerations, use of employee time for
personal or private
reasons, and use of City vehicles or
equipment, except in same manner as
available to any other person (or in
manner that will substantially benefit
City)."
"Last
night we heard from
the owners of the
truck. It
belongs to a couple
who recently moved
to Louisville and
who just purchased
the vehicle.
The husband and wife
are a little
distressed about why
the selective
enforcement against
them.
Commander Kingston
will speak with them
and convey our
assurances that this
is all quite routine
and innocent. "
This
quote is from a May
25, 2012 e-mail to
me from Bruce
Goodman, Police
Chief. He
knows the
rules. He
applies them when he
wants. He is a
bully. He does
not do his job that
he is paid to
do. He should
be fired on the
spot. If he
did his job
correctly, the first
time he contacted
the owners, he would
not be backed
into a corner to
save face.
Now, he will not do
his job, just to try
to prove he is
correct, when he is
so very wrong.
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