CASPER, Wyo. — Small trailers in Casper could soon be subject to the same parking regulations as large trailers and recreational vehicles.
The City Council passed an ordinance on first reading Tuesday, June 4 to implement the changes.
“While large trailers and other RVs are currently subject to parking limitations, in part due to their impact on traffic and safe sight lines for drivers, it has been the experience of City staff that parking small trailers on City streets also poses a hazard to traffic, due to their small size and resulting limited visibility to drivers,” City Attorney John Henley said in a memo.
The current Municipal Code “exempts trailers under a certain size from the definition of recreational vehicles in the context of parking regulation,” states Deputy City Attorney Will Chambers in a memo.
Chambers went on to say that trailers can have an impact on traffic and street visibility. He added that City staff think that small trailers “also pose a hazard to traffic, due to their small size and their resulting limited visibility to drivers.
Casper’s Municipal Code makes mention of trailers and recreational vehicle parking in several places.
“Any boat or trailer of any size must be parked in front of the owner’s lot or property,” reads the code.
“No person shall park any recreational vehicle, as defined in this chapter, on any street within the city for a period in excess of five consecutive days in any thirty-day period, unless the individual has complied with provisions outlined in the Parking Regulations Manual of the City of Casper, Wyoming, dated April 20, 2010, as may be amended from time to time by resolution of the city council.”
“At any corner formed by the intersecting streets, it shall be unlawful to park any recreational vehicle, as defined in this chapter, within the triangle formed by the intersection of the curb face of the extended curb lines, measured back a distance of thirty feet with a line drawn to form a right triangle.”
Council would need to pass the proposed ordinance revisions on two further readings before the changes would go into effect.
