The vote followed protests from several youngsters and parents (see video below) who said they had been unfairly cited for placing hoops on the right of way so that basketball can be played in the street on less busy roads.
"I would make it simply to say that we exclude basketball hoops from this ordinance," Mayor Vic De Luca said prior to the vote, which followed more than an hour of public testimony and committee discussion. "I think we ought to do that, we ought to allow it."
The committee then voted, 5-0, to temporarily suspend enforcement of the ordinance until a change can be made that would allow hoops to be erected on such rights-of-way through a permitting system that would likely require a permit to be placed on the hoops and bar them from busier intersections.
"We need to find some kind of middle ground," TC Member India Larrier, who chairs the TC code enforcement committee, said during the meeting. "I could see this as being a permissible thing."
Several parents and youngsters spoke out against the crackdown on the hoops after receiving citations during the past few weeks. Several spoke out and objected to a blanket restriction.
De Luca admitted that a mistake had been made in citing the hoops and said an updated ordinance with permitting would likely be completed before the end of the year.
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