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Common Council Meeting with Committee of the Whole Meeting February 4th, 2026

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Common Council Meeting with Committee of the Whole Meeting February 4th, 2026

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Unidentified speaker 18:03
Right, yeah, please. When you guys amended the zoning ordinance, you took out what was on the books so that there's nothing on the books. There's something specific for school buses now that came since, but there's nothing on the books now for what vehicles aren't allowed in the city. Um, it used to be a weight limit, which was tough for us as codes because we don't have the ability like police to look up DMV records. So like, we would kind of guess, well, that looks like it's over the weight. But we don't have the weight of that vehicle unless we have its VIN number. So, you know, we go up there trying to get the VIN number or whatever, but some of them are parked in the back. So this was better because it just— and you guys can amend it all you want. It just explicitly bans the actual vehicles we don't want. And there's— there were some edge cases like a food truck, right? Like that's an edge case. So food trucks aren't in there. But, you know, me and Joe worked on which exactly he wanted to see. So box trucks are in there, buses are in there. So huge food trucks wouldn't be in there, but like a van would be fine with a window in it, you know? So it's really up to the council what they don't want to see in neighborhoods. We get it mostly, I'll be honest, like we have some yards, like Joe and Joe have yards, but we get it a lot of times with the semis, when people run them in the driveway to warm them up, the smoke bothers the neighbors. The exhaust noise. Yeah, the noise in the exhaust. And some of the truck drivers leave at night, so that's, that's where we'll hear about it in code. But, um, yeah, it's up to you guys.
15:53
And I also just took, um, at a couple— just a couple locations, um, of pictures of what I was trying to explain. Uh, they're not the best pictures, but, um, I've talked to each one of you guys, or for the most part, and I believe all of you have the same issues in your district. I know last time when we brought this up they started talking about like tractor-trailer cabs and all that, and which, which would be a nuisance to if somebody was there next door to them. But I wasn't, um, that's not what I was talking about. That's not where my complaints have been. My complaints have been mostly, you can see by the pictures, where you have people operating businesses out of their house, where they have multiple trailers, multiple you know, pay loaders, plows. The one place in North Utica, they actually were next to the woods, and nobody really knows who owned the property. They took it upon themselves to cut trees down and move all the property and move the vehicles over there. And I've had multiple complaints. I talked to Marcus. When codes would go there, they would come back and tell me— Marcus would come back and tell me that there's really nothing that they can do about it. I know like last year on Lorraine Ave, we had a guy bought a bus and it sat there for, I'm pretty sure it's gone now, sat there for almost a year while he was remodeling it. Just stuff like that. I know I talked to you, Joe, you have the same issue. Talked to Bob, you had the issue. So it's just something, and we're not here, Marcus will speak of it too, we're not really here to go— for these codes guys to go out and look for all problems. It's more or less the people that are nuisance when there's a problem, they have something to help us out with. So that's what I'm trying to do. So, Marques, you want to talk on it?