{"id":42681,"date":"2019-05-07T23:33:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T03:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=42681"},"modified":"2019-05-07T23:33:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T03:33:46","slug":"large-commercial-vehicles-now-banned-from-parking-in-residential-driveways-in-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2019\/05\/large-commercial-vehicles-now-banned-from-parking-in-residential-driveways-in-lee-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Large commercial vehicles now banned from parking in residential driveways in Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Lee Commissioners passed an ordinance Tuesday that would not allow anyone to have a large commercial vehicle on their property that weighs more than 15,000 pounds <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"588\" height=\"542\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Class_4-7_Vehicles.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Class_4-7_Vehicles.png 588w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Class_4-7_Vehicles-300x277.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee County commissioners voted to ban large commercial\nvehicles from being parked in&nbsp;residential driveways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commissioners passed an ordinance Tuesday that would not\nallow&nbsp;anyone&nbsp;to have a large commercial vehicle on&nbsp;their\nproperty that weighs more than 15,000 pounds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To put&nbsp;the weight into perspective, a full 18-wheel\ntrailers weighs around 80,000 pounds, while a normal size pick-up truck weighs\nabout 6,000 pounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several people who spoke during the public comment, said it\nis unfair, especially if people are trying to start a business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commissioners said &#8216;AG zoned&#8217; properties would be exempt\nfrom this rule, and that this ordinance does not apply to personal RVs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee County&#8217;s attorney said the county most likely will not\ngo around the area looking for violations, rather the ordinance will mainly be\non a complaint basis.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lee Commissioners passed an ordinance Tuesday that would not allow anyone to have a large commercial vehicle on their property that weighs more than 15,000 pounds Lee County commissioners&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}