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HUGHESTOWN — The borough council has moved one step closer to addressing residential complaints about all-terrain vehicle traffic within the borough.
The council unanimously voted during Monday night’s regular meeting to advertise an ordinance regulating use of the vehicles within municipal limits.
The ordinance is in response to more than a year’s worth of complaints about ATVs speeding on Hughestown’s main streets, often late at night, and occasionally causing damage to public and residential property.
One possible highlight of the ordinance could require Hughestown residents to register ATVs with borough officials so that complaints can be more easily verified. Hughestown officers are at a disadvantage because safety concerns prohibit them from chasing riders.
In other matters, the borough is seeking public comment regarding concerns about a private shooting range that has been operating on the grounds of a home in the wooded area within the vicinity Parsonage Street.
As with the ATV traffic, this has been a source of regular complaints from borough residents, but investigations into activities at the range have consistently resulted in no findings of violations.
While past complaints have come from residents on and around Parsonage Street, recent complaints have come from Dupont residents in the Quail Hill neighborhood.
Hughestown officials will now investigate whether nuisance regulations are being violated. The borough has restrictions in effect each day from 7 a.m. through 7 p.m.