OPA-LOCKA – City officials in Opa-locka want to follow in the footsteps of Hialeah by banning RVs housed in yards at homes inside the town restrictions.
Citizens have been vocal about the eye sores expressing they concern the fiscal burden of an excessive of RVs in the town.
Commissioner Veronica Williams isn’t going to want this Opa-locka to turn into a trailer park. That is why she sponsored the ordinance to ban them.
As of right now, RVs can lawfully be parked on the facet or back again of an owner’s house in Miami-Dade County.
Previous Monday, the 1st looking through of the proposed ordinance went prior to the town commission. There, citizens voiced problem that RVs are adding a stress to the currently strained sewer procedure, the city’s drinking water system and electrical power. Now, they fear their pockets are up next.
“Do they have to pay back tax?” reported just one lady at past Monday’s assembly.
Resident Jannie Russell supports the ban far too.
“We, the property owners that pay out taxes, we are the ones that are going to have to carry the prices,” she said.
CBS News Miami’s Chelsea Jones asked Commissioner Williams what a ban on RVs would necessarily mean for these utilizing them as affordable housing or more earnings, she claimed the metropolis empathizes with that.
“The county has plans and sources that will go on to assistance and offer but we are not able to as a city above exhaust our have sources,” she explained.
The bottom line is that they want the RVs absent. The commission pushed back the 2nd examining Wednesday right up until the subsequent city fee conference.
If the ordinance passes it would take impact July 1, 2024.
A $500 wonderful would be imposed for violations and citizens would have 30 times to develop into compliant or facial area more penalties from the town.
