Trucking residents of a Florida neighborhood at the center of a truck parking drama say that the whole case is still a “convoluted mess” nearly a year after the enforcement officially started.
The enforcement of a truck parking ban that was technically always in place, but never actually implemented, in The Acreage neighborhood in Palm Beach County, Florida, began in July 2024. Truckers living there for the last 20 years say that the change has made residing in the neighborhood too costly and nearly impossible.
In response to the newly enforced ordinance, two resident truckers, Jorge Alfaro of Prestwich Drive and Clare Dougal of Tangerine Blvd filed a lawsuit alleging that the county had engaged in the “taking” of their property rights by enforcing the ordinance and disrupting their way of life…