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DOWNTOWN FIRE A fire on St. Louis Avenue, across from De Lazy Lizard, broke out last Friday, Sept. 18, around 1 a.m. The fire originated on the second floor, and displaced two ground-floor tenants. The city fire marshal’s office continues to investigate the blaze, one of several in the downtown bayside area over the past year.
By Zack Hoopes Staff Writer (Sept. 25, 2015) The City Council passed final versions this week of ordinances intended to control the resort’s automotive-related events through restricted trailer parking and mandatory posting of signs. Both ordinances are significantly less restrictive than what city officials had originally proposed several weeks ago – new laws that would have outright banned on-street trailer parking, as well as any sort of congregation by spectators in private parking lots and landscaping areas required under the city’s zoning and business li-
censing codes. However, objections from the business community resulted in the resort’s elected officials backing off from the idea of giving the Ocean City Police Department new powers over private property. “The public asked us to look for ways to do this that were already on the books and we found a way to do that,” said Councilman Wayne Hartman. Despite the apparent perception in City Hall that police were not allowed to address rowdy behavior on private property, word from City Solicitor Guy Ayres two weeks ago clarified that state law already prohibits creating a disturbance in a “public place,” which includes publicly accessible areas of private property, under the See CITY Page 3
Bike Week mostly tame, highly profitable course, the Ocean City Police Department indicated that service demand during this year’s motorcycle rally was up only slightly over last year, and actually down compared to 2013. “With the exception of a few motor vehicle collisions early in the weekend, we saw yet another successful and safe Bike Week with no significant criminal events,” said OCPD Public Information Specialist Lindsay Richard. The most significant incident was motorcycle-vs.-
Police report fewer violations, citations than in earlier years
By Zack Hoopes Staff Writer (Sept. 25, 2015) Ocean City seems to have chalked up another successful Delmarva Bike Week and OC BikeFest, both in terms of participant turnout and workload on local emergency responders. Despite a few significant traffic collisions, which have almost become par for the
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pedestrian collision last Friday night at 28th Street and Coastal Highway, Richard said. One person was evacuated by helicopter, but is expected to survive. “There were a few serious injuries over the weekend, but none that have been reported as life-threatening,” Richard said. Businesses reported a brisk weekend, with OC BikeFest organizers estimating that the event brought roughly 180,000 attendees to the reSee MULTIPLE Page 4
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City to start sign initiative before fall events Continued from Page 1 state’s definition. Thus, rowdy event spectators lining Coastal Highway can still be arrested for creating a disturbance of the peace in a public place, even if that place is privately owned. To this end, the ordinance passed by the council this week requires all “public places” with parking fronting Baltimore Avenue, Philadelphia Avenue, or Coastal Highway, to post signs in their lots reminding visitors that disturbing the peace is still against the law, even if they’re not on a public street. The city already has a sign designed, ready for production by the city’s Department of Public Works, and ‘Even though available to any they’re not property owner required until free-of-charge. “Our goal is the spring, we to invest in encourage something that property owners we think will help solve prob- to put these up lems and save prior to some us money on of the events w enforcement in e’ll see this fall. the long run,” We’ve had a said Mayor and acting City number of Manager Rick properties Meehan. already request Given that the signs.’ the city can do Mayor and the production in-house, the acting City signs cost only Manager $7.32 each to produce, Mee- Rick Meehan han said. With several hundred properties along the city’s main roads, this could cost several thousand dollars but it’s still a drop in the bucket compared to the OCPD’s overall cost of policing large, car-centric events. The ordinance will not require the signs be posted until May 1, 2016, after which property owners who have not posted one can be fined. However, the city is hoping to get as many signs out as possible in the
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next week, prior to the arrival of cars for the H2O International Volkswagen/Audi rally on Oct. 3-4. Although the event takes place at Fort Whaley, a large number of event participants stay in Ocean City and cruise Coastal Highway, with throngs of young spectators often causing problems along the sidewalk and in parking lots. The week after H2O, on Oct. 9-11, Endless Summer Cruisin’ will hit town. While not as large as the spring Cruisin’ OC hot rod rally, some disturbance is still expected. “Even though they’re not required until the spring, we encourage property owners to put these up prior to some of the events we’ll see this fall,” Meehan said. “We’ve had a number of properties already request the signs.” The signs simply read “disturbing
the peace and disorderly conduct is a violation of state law.” Although this does not give police any new powers to prevent the use of private lots and landscaping, it does give officers and property owners added confidence in approaching rowdy car-watchers who should already know to tone it down. The second ordinance passed this week is, similarly, a modification of the city’s original plan to ban trailer parking on public streets and municipal lots during from May 1 to Sept. 30. Instead, in-season trailer parking will only be allowed for certain events, during which the city will provide permits only to registered event participants at a price to be set by the council. The idea is to allow parking by those who are legitimate participants
in the auto shows, while discouraging attendance by those who are not officially involved, and are trailering in their specialty vehicles just to cruise Coastal Highway and make trouble. When resident John Medlin observed that the policy would essentially create “two classes” of event-goer, Meehan replied “that’s exactly what we’re going for here.” Hartman also suggested that, when the council decides on a fee for the permits, it also look at hiking fines for parking violations, which are currently $30 per ticket. Hartman also asked if the city has the ability to tow illegally parked trailers. “We don’t know what the outcome will be as to how much people will challenge this,” Hartman said. “If we can start removing the vehicles, we’ll probably gain a lot more compliance.”
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