Resident unhappy about possible changes to vehicle ordinance
In regards to the proposed change to Chapter 8.52 of the Moses Lake Municipal Code, "Residential Vehicle Storage," City Manager Joe Gavinski states, "the proposed amendment changes the enforcement methodology." Using the word methodology rather than process, practice or procedure has an ominously foreboding sound outside the word of law. Methodology may better be applied to philosophy, logic or theology not, people, homes and cars. In any terms, the proposed amendment will eliminate an essential part of the ordinance. Albeit intrusive, invasive and in all probability unconstitutional as it is, to remove the current notice of violation and order to correct or cease activity will do away with the earliest essential indication to a citizen that someone has complained against them to the city. It will not allow the individual that first fundamental opportunity to respond or comply outside of a courtroom. As disagreeable as it exists today, the notice of violation is a practice that more affably informs a citizen of a possible violation. The status quo is a far friendlier procedure than to "simply require the payment of a fine with every violation". The current notice of violation may also avert any possible or very probable enforcement mistake on the part of the City.
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