These
e-mails show that he is frustrated with
my valid parking complaints about the
same vehicles over and over again for
months on end. His responses to me, at
times, have been less than professional,
in my humble opinion, as shown in the
e-mails from him to me over the months.
Chief
Bruce told me in no uncertain terms
that:
“For the Louisville Police
Department, the matter of an abandoned
vehicle is closed”, as shown in his
e-mail to me dated May 25, 2012.
I
complained about this continual
abandoned vehicle situation directly to
the Code Enforcement department in July,
2012 to William Kingston, who tried
their best to help keep this parking
situation under control. They eventually
gave up.
In an
e-mail to me on December 17, 2012, Chief
Bruce stated this to me: “In Louisville, parking on the
street is not against the law and the
Police Department will not pester people
because you do not like the appearance
of parked cars in your
neighborhood. I’m sorry that your
disagree, but the Police Department will
not take action for this and similar
parking issues."
Chief
Bruce has also used inaction about the
abandoned vehicles, because I complained
too much during the fall of 2012.
In a
January 2, 2012 e-mail to me, he told me
this:
“There will be no enforcement
against the ‘Mr. Rooter’ truck.”
In my
January3, 2012 e-mail to Chief Bruce, it
shows our continued conversations that
day, in which I told him his actions
toward me were political, and that I
wanted to speak to City Council about
this parking matter, and his "opinions",
and not facts, for
interpreting/enforcing our parking
law.
There
is a law in place that states that
parking is not “unlimited".
However, because this law is rather
unclear as to lengths of time vehicles
can park on public streets, the law can
be misinterpreted by whomever. Only
Judges are allowed interpret laws.
Police Officers carry them out.
Some
of the Code Enforcement officers, the
City employees, do not even live in
Louisville. Their standard of living
might be different in their
neighborhood. For instance, where they
live the law might allow unlimited
Public Street parking for all types of
vehicles.
So,
those Code Enforcement officers might
see no problem, when I report abandoned
vehicles. When they report back, they
say there is no problem.
Therefore,
the City needs specifics about the
parking of vehicles on Public Streets,
in front of private residences that do
not belong to them, and especially our
public streets that are next to our
beautiful City parks, that we do not
want turned into “parking lots”.
Here
are a few of my recommendations for
resolving the City street parking
problem.
*no
vehicles can be parked on any public
streets for over 3 days except on their
own property
*
if
more time than 3 days is needed, they
will need to get permission for extended
parking from the City Admin
*no
commercial vehicles can be parked in any
private neighborhoods or next to any
City Parks
*no
vehicles allowed extended/long term
parking next to any City parks
*
repeat
offenders should be ticketed and
possibly towed
That
is just some suggestions. Our Mayor
pointed out to me that there is not much
commercial parking space in Louisville.
My
husband also suggested that since there
is a lack of commercial parking space in
our City, that we make a place in our
“commercial” area. We could charge money
for the parking. It would bring in
revenue. I have seen our neighbors with
a boat store their vehicle in another
town for the winter. They could have
stored that boat here in town in a
commercial parking spot. The old
recycling drop off center at Pine and
Hwy. 42 is vacant.
This
problem could happen in any neighborhood
in Louisville with the City parking laws
as vague as they are. These laws need
immediate changing, so the Code
Enforcement has uniform written word of
exactly who can and cannot legally park
on our beautiful City streets.
Louisville
has been named in Money Magazine
over the years as one of the top 5
places to live in the country. We need
to keep our streets free and clear of
permanent/abandoned vehicles cluttering
our streets.
The
law in question is listed below in the
Post Script. This is the law that our
Chief of Police enforces, when he wants.
That loop needs closing immediately.
Thanks
for your time.
Sincerely,
Bev
Beaufait
388
W. Elm St.
303-673-0247
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