You're Breaking the Law by Backing Out in Montgomery
Montgomery Township Supervisors authorized advertisement of a public hearing to amend the zoning code for off-street parking. Now, it's illegal to back out of a driveway or lot onto every street in the township.
If you live anywhere in Montgomery Township, and you back out of your driveway, you're breaking the law. The township will look to amend that this month. Bruce Shoupe, director of zonning and planning for the township, requested supervisors Monday night authorize advertisement for a March 25 public hearing to amend the zoning code for the Required Parking" section under Article 19: Off-Street Parking and Loading. Shoupe said the section was originally put in the zoning code in 1967, and later amended in 1981. Shoupe said, per the existing ordinance, every vehicle should be turning around in a driveway or lot and exit frontways onto township streets. "It directly relates as to how cars are not allowed to back out into roadways," Shoupe told…
Concerned Citizen
4:02 pm on Sunday, March 10, 2013
Rules, rules and more rules in Mont. Twp. They create their own added rules to the building code, because I guess they can, costing residents plenty extra. Liability - it's all about liability. These folks are seriously scared into making ridiculous out of control rules for everything. more ›