{"id":88365,"date":"2025-12-18T20:08:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/88365\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T20:08:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:08:23","slug":"tampa-city-council-votes-down-ordinance-banning-wheelies-and-large-biker-groups-on-bayshore-riverwalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/88365\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa City Council votes down ordinance banning wheelies and large biker groups on Bayshore, Riverwalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1007\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tampa-Riverwalk-Hillsborough-River-by-felixmizioznikov-via-iStock-for-WMNF-News-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-250794 size-250794 wp-post-image\" alt=\"Tampa Riverwalk Hillsborough River\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTampa Riverwalk and Hillsborough River by felixmizioznikov via iStock for WMNF News.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tListen:<\/p>\n<p>The Tampa City Council has voted down an ordinance that would ban wheelies and large groups of bikers on the Tampa Riverwalk, Bayshore, and other trails.<\/p>\n<p>Public response during Thursday\u2019s meeting was mostly against the ordinance, citing potential racial profiling and a lack of data.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as police and some city council members say they\u2019ve heard complaints from people about large groups of bikers, often young, riding fast and doing tricks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police officers say they face limitations on how they can enforce solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Carl Brody is an Assistant City Attorney.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot addressing it is allowing a dangerous condition to continue to be in place,\u201d Brody said.<\/p>\n<p>But many members of the public worried the ordinance would unfairly target minorities and teens.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yvette Lewis, the president of the NAACP in Hillsborough County, spoke during public comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been working diligently with Tampa Police Department and this city to build trust back between the African-American community and them. But y\u2019all keep erasing or eradicating it based on these knee-jerk reactions,\u201d Lewis said.<\/p>\n<p>Emily Hinsdale spoke during public comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver a hundred people have died on Hillsborough County roads so far in 2025, 18 percent of those on City of Tampa-owned roads. And today we are here to prohibit wheelies,\u201d Hinsdale said.<\/p>\n<p>The city council voted down the current form of the ordinance, with one council member proposing a public workshop discussing an ordinance in April.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Riverwalk and Hillsborough River by felixmizioznikov via iStock for WMNF News. Listen: The Tampa City Council has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8627,135,137,136,16611],"class_list":["post-88365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-riverwalk","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tampa-riverwalk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}