'Nitpicky' Burr Ridge Pickup Truck Rule May End

Burr Ridge IL

09 June, 2022

4:32 PM

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BURR RIDGE, IL – Burr Ridge is looking at doing away with its ban on leaving pickup trucks with toolboxes outside houses overnight. In early 2021, a couple on 74th Street was notified by Burr Ridge that the village had received a complaint that they had a pickup truck with a tool storage bin and that it was parked outside overnight. In a letter, the wife objected to the regulations, saying the truck was a means of transportation for her husband, not just a work truck. The village said it doesn't investigate such code issues until it receives a complaint. At the time, then-Trustee Zach Mottl emailed Village Hall about the couple's complaint. He suggested the village fix "ridiculous, nitpicky ordinances" that are used "against hard-working residents like those folks who are just trying to do their jobs and not cause a problem." Earlier this week, Burr Ridge's Plan Commission looked at the regulation in question. The village administration has presented the option of exempting pickup trucks with toolboxes from the rules for commercial vehicles. In an email to Mottl in early 2021, Trustee Guy Franzese noted the portion of the ordinance about pickup trucks was last updated in 2006. "Since the ordinance was last updated, pickup trucks have become more commonplace and bed storage boxes have become more commonplace as well," Franzese said. "I have asked that the topic of commercial vehicles be researched further by Staff and that commercial vehicles be discussed at a future Plan Commission meeting and a future Board meeting."