Trucks Not Part Of Plan; Community Bans Overnight Parking

The Washington Post | September 11, 1997| | Copyright

The roar of a tow-truck engine sends defiant truck owners in Montgomery Village racing out to the street in the middle of the night, sometimes bleary-eyed and in pajamas, to move their vehicles because they aren't supposed to be parked overnight in front of their homes.

Truck owners in the 2,500-acre sprawling planned community of 11,500 single-family homes, town houses and apartments in Gaithersburg must park blocks away on the closest public street because the neighborhood covenant prohibits overnight truck parking.

"It's like we are a lesser class of people because we drive ...

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