SABATTUS – With a new junkyard ordinance in Sabattus in effect, selectmen are discussing other ordinances, including one to help improve traffic control.
At Tuesday’s meeting, Selectmen Chairman Gino Camardese said the town is moving in the right direction in regards to the private junkyards without permits. “We now have teeth, due of our ordinance,” he said. “And once I mention that Code Enforcement Officer Richard Behr is going to make a visit, things get done.”
Behr said the town is not dealing with the issue of illegal junkyards lightly anymore, thanks to the ordinance passed by voters earlier this year. “Immediate legal action for all those violating the junkyard will occur,” he said.
Hoping for the same success on another matter, selectmen are discussing a traffic and noise ordinance that would target key roads that have speeding problems and reduce the use of noisy truck brakes on certain town roadways.
Pat Rainey of Sutherland Pond Road asked selectmen what can be done about the trucks that drive by using noisy brakes during all hours of the day.
Selectmen said they first talked about an traffic ordinance in August but have had numerous issues that have been consuming most of their time.
The board discussed simply placing time limitations on the use of such brakes, preventing drivers from using them during morning and evening hours, and preventing any use at all during the weekend.
“I will get something together. This part shouldn’t take long,” Selectman Guy Desjardins said. “But it can’t go into effect until after it is voted on by the town during a public hearing.” He doesn’t see that happening until the May town meeting.
The second part of that traffic ordinance would address speed adjustments to some roads. But it would take some time to prepare such an ordinance, Desjardins said.
“We have to do some work for this type of ordinance, especially when it deals with speed adjustment,” Desjardins said. “It is not just a quick fix.”
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