charlestonsouthern wrote:
There could be an economic bad side to this. A lot of Canadians driving down in their RV and taking the back roads; they happen upon a nice little Tennessee town and decide to spend some time being a tourist and drop some cash at the neighborhood grocery store, restaurant, microbrewery, antique store, admission to a small museum, and/or trinket shop. All of this may require a couple of nights parking say on a dead end street. The Tennessee municipalities or townships know how tourism works in their town; however, the state has taken these decisions out of the townships hands. Therefore, the Canadian RVer drives right through town on the way to their final destination and not dropping any cash in that Tennessee town. When a state writes new laws, they should not take out part of the economies of small towns.
The people camping in neighborhood streets typically aren't spending a lot while they are there, so I'm not seeing too many heart broken towns fretting over the money.
Of course, if the city is OK with it, they can always not enforce the state law. There are thousands of laws on the books and they can't enforce every one.
