I think it's part of a "clean up Springfield" campaign. It's understandable in a way, but ill concieved IMO. I found this statement interesting:

“I don’t want to have to figure out why a 13-year-old is dead on Main Street,” he said. Pishioneri and Councilors Dave Ralston, Marilee Woodrow and Sheri Moore offered varying degrees of support for the ordinance."

Well Councilor Pishioneri, you already have had a number of dead and injured pedestrians on your streets (courtesy of bad driving ), how about spending some angst and money to try and recitify that?