Florida Keys News - Key West Citizen
Thursday, August 23, 2012
City cracks down on boats in street
Police chief: Enforcement now proactive, rapid
BY JOHN DeSANTIS Citizen Staff

With a roll of plastic tape in one hand and a pen in the other, Community Service Officer Angie Yanes leaned close to a parked 18-foot Cobia boat on Riviera Drive Wednesday, then affixed an 8¬½-by-11-inch red notice to the white guide on its trailer.

The notice said if it wasn't removed from the street after three days, the city of Key West will have a tow truc...

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another shitty law

Submitted on Fri, 08/24/2012 - 12:19am by Mr B
that pisses off the people who pay taxes, Time to get these clowns off the commission

Boat parking police?

Submitted on Thu, 08/23/2012 - 10:38pm by mango
Let's get real, you have folks getting assaulted, unknown perp, and your cracking the whip on boat parking? Attention Boat Parking Police, there are serious crimes occurring. Just to let you know, we have a 2x4 island which from a policing standpoint is similar to shooting fish in a barrel. This is not little Haiti in Miami, nor the Bronx in New York, it's called get off your arse and catch the thugs, and leave the law abiding boat parking citizens alone. There I feel a little better.

Rossi's Wisdom

Submitted on Thu, 08/23/2012 - 8:14pm by Chi Chi
Thanks a lot Rossi! Go back to your objectifying women and leave my boat alone!

boats or trailers?

Submitted on Thu, 08/23/2012 - 1:38pm
if you want to be technical the trailers are parked on the streets and they carry the boats. It would be useless and near impossible to actually park a boat on the street. I do not know the exact wording of the law in question but is it ok to park a non commercial boat trailer on the street if it does not have a boat on it? If it is allowed then what does it matter if there is a boat on it or not.

Boat parking in the streets

Submitted on Thu, 08/23/2012 - 1:16pm by Fat Boy
This law is Stupid, the conchs that sit on the commission knows how expensive it is to have a boat in the Marina, & people with boats live in the new section of Key West, Not Old Town where the parking is very hard. If you rent an apartment & there is a place to park you boat I don't see what the problem is, Key West always had boats parked in the street nothing new & New town don't have the problems in parking. I do not own a boat nor could I afford one. But let the people live on this island, It’s bad enough you have to pay outrageous rents because the homeowners are full of Greed, not to mention the City is full of Greed with those parking fees, If this continues People will leave Key West & leave the rich to wipe their Butts.

Not greed. Common sense. Show a little CLASS

Submitted on Fri, 08/24/2012 - 4:21pm by *.* CLEARLY the original
If you can't afford dockage, you can't afford a boat. Period. Don't buy what you cannot afford. That entitlement attitude costs you money you don't have to spend.

We live in Old Town. We own a boat. It never once occurred to us that we would try to put our boat on the street. We secured the storage spot BEFORE we bought the boat. It doesn't take a lot of brainpower to know to do that.

As to the end of your little rant, it would appear you have little knowledge of economics. Perhaps you're still living with Mom and Dad?

Well..., removal of parked

Submitted on Thu, 08/23/2012 - 9:54am by Faye
Well..., removal of parked boats on the streets of KW will be removed by owner or towed will give back parking which is much needed. Why park boats on the streets; since I don't own life's many little luxuries I wont know how much is rental for storage at the marina. By the way street parking is public not private and the police have the right to warn you to move the boats.

Exactly, Faye.

Submitted on Fri, 08/24/2012 - 4:23pm by *.* CLEARLY the original
Why is it boat owners think that it is their right to trash up a neighborhood and store their boats on PUBLIC right of way?

Hey Folks it's an island

Submitted on Thu, 08/23/2012 - 9:12am by Fairvalues
This ordinance reminds me of the tourist asking if the water goes all around Key West. This is a boating town, even if like me you don't own one. My first impression when I moved here of the boats on the streets of New Town was how nice it will be to live in a town where the elected officials respect the people that live here year round. Think moving boats off streets and into yards will look better. Wait till you see the boats on front yards. It will look like a bad trailer park. I thought I'd never say this, but it's time the people in New Town banded together to rpotect their rights. We can't be sure what's next.

IT looks no better in front yards than on the streets. But the

Submitted on Fri, 08/24/2012 - 4:26pm by *.* CLEARLY the original
boat owners OWN their yards (or rent and have the right to use their yards). They do not OWN the street.

What rights are you wishing to protect? Your right to convert public right of way for your own personal use? You think that's a right? Geez, you people are goofy.

Cops have nothing better to

Submitted on Thu, 08/23/2012 - 8:28am by Old School
Cops have nothing better to do then harass boat owners in the boating capitol of the world. Shameful.

Protests mean nothing now. It's the law.

Submitted on Thu, 08/23/2012 - 4:29pm by Tina
Protests mean nothing now. It's the law. If you can't afford the storage, you can't afford the boat. Much like 'if you can't afford the insurance, you can't afford the car.'

this new law isn't right

Submitted on Thu, 08/23/2012 - 6:18am by Mr B
residents who pay property taxes should be able to park in front of their houses

Yeah?

Submitted on Fri, 08/24/2012 - 7:38pm by Ninja Jane
Well I pay my taxes and If I didn't provide parking space on my own property, I couldn't find a place to park on my block because just one neighbor has the street lined with two boats, a landscaping trailer and multiple cars. Property owners are entilted to the use of their property not the public right of way.

But, they don't own the street. We ALL do. Thus we ALL have

Submitted on Thu, 08/23/2012 - 4:27pm by Tina
fair use of all of it.

Where do these people think

Submitted on Thu, 08/23/2012 - 1:54am by Duck
Where do these people think they are living....on a 2x4 fishing island?
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