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View Full Version : Coral Gables, FL votes to scrap 50-year-old pickup ban




aGameOfThrones
11-10-2012, 09:39 PM
For 50 years, residents of Coral Gables, Florida weren't permitted to park pickup trucks in their driveways due to a local ordinance aimed at preserving the community's classy aesthetic. As you may recall, police began enforcing the rule last year by handing out citations with a $100 fine to anyone caught parking trucks on their property overnight. The fines could climb as high as $500. Former resident Lowell Kuvin waged an eight-year legal battle with the city to get the law repealed, but the Florida Supreme Court ruled in 2011 that the municipality had the authority to control its aesthetics.

But the citizens of Coral Cables put the ordinance on this year's ballot and voted to repeal the law. While residents seemed divided on the issue, most agreed the ban now served more as a class issue than anything else. Large SUVs, for instance, were entirely acceptable under the old ban.

http://www.autoblog.com/2012/11/10/coral-gables-fl-votes-to-scrap-50-year-old-pickup-ban/

youngbuck
11-11-2012, 11:43 AM
This is one of the stupidest things I've heard of in a while. A pickup truck ban? Well, that's one place that'd never get my business. Must be full of a bunch of "aging hippie liberal douches" as depicted on South Park.

tod evans
11-11-2012, 11:50 AM
Used to be east coast retirees when that ordinance was passed, don't know about now, never had a desire to visit.