PARKING LAW MAY TIGHTEN.Byline: Charles Charles, archduke of Austria Charles, 1771–1847, archduke of Austria; brother of Holy Roman Emperor Francis II. Despite his epilepsy, he was the ablest Austrian commander in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars; however, he was handicapped by F. Bostwick Bostwick can refer to: People
PALMDALE Palmdale, city (1990 pop. 68,842), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in the irrigated Antelope Valley; a growing residential suburb of Los Angeles near Little Rock Creek where it forms Lake Palmdale Reservoir, inc. 1962. - City officials are proposing tightening a years-old city law that bans parked cars in front yards to deal with homeowners who pave PAVE Cardiology A clinical trial–Post AV Node Ablation Evaluation their lawns to use them for parking. Because judges have dismissed citations after concluding that any paved pave tr.v. paved, pav·ing, paves 1. To cover with a pavement. 2. To cover uniformly, as if with pavement. 3. To be or compose the pavement of. area in a front yard qualifies as a driveway, where parking is allowed, city officials want to replace seven lines of legal definition with 41 lines defining what a driveway is and where parking is allowed. ``That's certainly not something we'd like to see as a city,'' Mayor Jim Ledford said of front-yard parking areas. ``Not having that hillbilly look - it adds value to the community.'' The proposal is scheduled to be discussed by the City Council at its meeting tonight. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at City Hall, 38300 Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling . Different versions of the new definitions have come before the City Council twice before, at meetings last May and again in August. Both times council members asked for further clarification in the language about where parking is allowed on circular driveways or driveways leading to carports or rear- or side-yard parking areas. The revisions are not intended to change city law, officials said, but to clarify a long-standing policy barring residential zones from containing ``virtual parking lots'' in front yards, officials said. City staffers said some homeowners have paved strips from one end of a front yard across to the opposite side of the yard, or paved the entire front yard. |
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