Fayette County’s Board of Commissioners has declined to reinstate an ordinance that would have prohibited residents in smaller housing developments in unincorporated areas from parking vehicles on their front lawns.
At the board’s Oct. 25 meeting, Commissioners Charles Rousseau and Steve Brown endorsed the proposal, which would have required residents in subdivisions with lots of one acre or less to park on such surfaces as gravel or pavement. Both expressed concern about elements of blight affecting property values, but the three other commissioners did not find the practice problematic.
“We’ve always had cars on lawns,” said Charles Oddo. “It’s just part of life in the unincorporated county.”
A previous ban on the practice was repealed by the county more than a decade ago.
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