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Ficker's Victory Leaves Politicos Black and Blue
Robin Ficker, a Bethesda lawyer and former state delegate, has spent three decades trying to get anti-tax measures passed in Montgomery.
(By Susan Biddle -- The Washington Post)
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According to an analysis in the report, Leggett would define where such vehicles could park, allowing street parking on roads zoned for commercial or industrial uses. His recommendations would allow RVs to remain on the street for a 24-hour window instead of the 12-hour period Knapp's legislation proposes.
Knapp said last week that he hopes the public safety committee will take up the two proposals before the new year and said he hoped "we can get to a good outcome."
"We're basically saying the same thing," he said.
Raquel Montenegro, a lobbyist for the building industry, said she is concerned that some of the proposals do not really resolve the problems the report outlined.
"How big a problem is this? Obviously, folks who have called and found trucks on their street have found it a problem, and it is a safety issue," she said. But forcing business employees to park elsewhere may lead to other challenges, such as trying to figure out where to park and then how to get back and forth to work every day, she said.
And capping the amount of time for a building permit may penalize builders and homeowners who have lost their financing or encountered construction challenges that slow down the project.
"The purpose of this is to assure that houses get finished. Now, because of circumstances out of my control, I am not able to finish, my permit expires, and the county forbids me from doing any other work unless I get another permit with the money I don't have. It seems it is not really addressing the issue," Montenegro said.
The members of the panel outlining the proposals came from county government, and industry officials were not involved, Montenegro said. But she said that she had recently called Leggett's office to voice her concerns and that she plans to do so as the proposals make their way through the legislative process.
Staff writer Miranda S. Spivack contributed to this report.
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