In a major victory for pickup truck owners, the town of Indian River Shores is getting ready to repeal a 40-year-old ban on pickup trucks being parked overnight in the town. At its regular end-of-month May meeting, the town council instructed town staff to draft a new ordinance that would remove the current restrictions on pickup trucks being parked on the street or in driveways in residential areas. The new draft ordinance will be submitted for review by the town councilors at their next regular monthly meeting scheduled for Thursday, June 22. Since the instructions were clear that the current restrictions should be removed, it is likely the repeal will pass and that the town’s code enforcement personnel will stop ticketing truck owners. At a public meeting in the town’s council chambers last month, about 30 people showed up and at least half a dozen delivered pleas, some of them passionately, to lift the ban, while no one spoke in favor of keeping it. A recording of the meeting was submitted to all council members before the May 28 town council meeting. Technically, the old ban only prohibited non-commercial pickup trucks from being parked outside – inside a garage was still OK if a truck would fit there – between the hours of 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. But the speakers at the public meeting said the ordinance in effect amounted to a total ban on having such vehicles anywhere within the town limits, since truck owners couldn’t very well park their vehicles elsewhere overnight. Those in favor of lifting the ban said it was outdated, since today’s pickup trucks are no longer junky-looking vehicles belonging to tradesmen that don’t fit with the upscale image the town was trying to protect in the old days. Many professionals or even retired people now make pickup trucks their primary vehicles and they often carry a higher purchase price tag than popular luxury automobiles. The average F150 – the most popular pickup in the US market – now costs more than $60,000, with some sources putting the average price paid as high as $74,000. For comparison, the average price paid for a new Mercedes 300 C, the most popular Mercedes sedan, was $50,000 in 2025. Cadillac’s bestselling sedan, the CT5, likewise had an average sales price around $50,000, at least $10,000 less than the F150. Some protesters also said that not being able to park personal pickup trucks in one’s driveway is a violation of personal property rights and goes against the spirit, if not the letter, of a two-year-old state law that barred HOAs from prohibiting residents from parking pickup trucks on their properties. Enforcement of the old ban had been rather lax for years, but when the town’s code enforcement staff started aggressively issuing citations over the past couple of years, many residents began to question the ordinance and asked for a hearing on the matter. When no one at the hearing spoke up in favor of keeping the ban, repeal became a near certainty.