Geneva Alderman Suggests Limits On Garage Sales
CHICAGO (CBS) -- As the weather warms up, and garage sales and yard sales become a more common sight, an alderman in west suburban Geneva has suggested limiting how many such sales a resident can have each year.
Geneva Alderman Ron Singer recently raised the issue of garage sale restrictions, after getting a letter from a voter who complained about a neighbor who seems to have garage sales every week. That makes it difficult for the voter to safely get her car out of her driveway, because there are so many cars parked along the street.
"When this kind of thing is going on in a perpetual way, you wonder if these people … aren't, in a way, running a business out of their garage," Singer said.
Singer said Geneva city staff was looking into coming up with a proposed ordinance dealing with garage sales.
"Should we restrict them to only once a month, or twice a month, or four times a season?" You know, I don't know how to answer that, but I'm beginning to feel that there should be some means or some form of a restriction in some manner," he said.
Nothing's expected for a few months. Many suburbs limit residents to two garage sales per year.