The Denver City Council tweaked a new law aimed at giving police and parking enforcement officials more power to ticket and impound RVs, trailers, semis and damaged or abandoned “junker” vehicles on city streets on Monday.
, said. “I think that there were good amendments brought but there are much bigger issues that this bill leaves unresolved.” Recreational vehicles more than 22 feet long and vehicles hooked up to trailers that are more than 22 feet long combined have 24 hours before they are legally required to move, under the rules approved Monday. The distance they have to move would be bumped up from 100 feet to 700 feet — roughly the length of a city block.
Clark and city staff members emphasized throughout the debate that the primary focus of the changes was to address a major uptick in damaged, unsafe and often abandoned recreational vehicles on city streets in the last handful of years. He noted neighboring cities like Lakewood have“This was a big compromise solution from where a lot of people were pushing for us to really go out and do something more Lakewood has done which is much further reaching,” he said.