Fayetteville

planners will give the matter some more thought before

deciding whether to regulate garage sales.

"On

the one hand, I don't want undue regulation. On the other

hand, some of those having garage sales consistently are

not having garage sales... they are operating

[businesses]," said Bill Talley, chairman of the

city Planning Commission, during a discussion on the

topic last week.

City

planner Todd Miller said a resident recently complained

about a neighbor having two to three garage sales a

month, but the city has no regulations that limit the

number of sales a resident can have.

"Most

[cities] limit them to two or three garage sales a

year," he told the Planning Commission.

Commission

member Kevin Bittinger liked the idea of imposing a

limit, saying he didn't believe it would work undue

hardship on code enforcers. "We're going to know who

the chief offenders are," he said. "We're going

to know where to look."

But

commission member Myron Coxe disagreed. "I would say

this is government intrusion we don't need," he

said. Most neighborhoods can deal with nuisance garage

sales through their homeowners' associations, he said.

Segis

Lipscomb suggested rewriting the definition of retail

sales so that if a resident has too many yard sales, the

resident would fall under that definition and have to

meet zoning restrictions for a business.

The group

adjourned without coming to any conclusions.

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