Campground = low income housing???
I wasn't sure where to post this question so I figured I would try here. It's as much of a rant as it is a question, but it is a legitimate question. I've been tent camping my whole life but am ne...
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All Michigan State Parks have enforced rules against staying longer than 14 days in a CG or having a messy squatter type sites. So do the National Parks here and also most of the private parks too. A few private RV parks allow seasonals in an area of their parks and they do it meeting the laws on the books. You, of course, can go too a different park CG as in moving around but that's not being a permanent resident in a park. City parks can differ somewhat as some rent or lease for a season or by the month but are also totally closed during the Winter.
Membership parks have very different rules and governed by the state laws but you have to be a member to stay/use. Other than a couple day promotional stay to see if you like it and want to buy a membership and pay dues to even be able to use a site or be seasonal or lease or buy a site but the State of Michigan has an enforced 11 month max occupancy law.
Then there's the condo sites in RV resorts in our state where you must own the deeded land and pay property taxes etc and have your own electric meter, to code approved septic system or approved community sewer system hookup, and your own approved well or hooked to an approved community water system. NO bending of the rules that we've ever seen or heard of in Michigan in our 51 years of RV'ing.
A mobile home park in our state can have different variations but are governed by the state rules and laws on the books regarding RV occupancy. We know as we/ve owned 4 one acre plus condo sites in a very large RV resort north of our main home since 1987 in Michigan that we use as a get away as it's in the huge national forest and we let our family use too with their RV's. Had to have our own water, septic, and electric and it's inspected and approved. I was on the Board of Directors for 9 years and know the state laws and they are enforced.
I/we do have a problem with seeing so many "recreational" CG's packed with permanent RV's/campers, park models, half converted busses, and pig sty sites when we travel around the country as that's not what the "recreational" CG's are for or were ever built for. Some states do allow it!
Camping is extremely popular in our state and nearly all of the several hundred thousand sites are needed in mid Spring, the Summer, and the Fall and of course, most close up for the Winter season so it couldn't be permanent camping/living anyway. In Winter, nearly all shute off the water and blow the lines out, close the dump stations and bathouses, and lock the gates. Those open all winter enforce their state mandated time stay limits.
Membership parks have very different rules and governed by the state laws but you have to be a member to stay/use. Other than a couple day promotional stay to see if you like it and want to buy a membership and pay dues to even be able to use a site or be seasonal or lease or buy a site but the State of Michigan has an enforced 11 month max occupancy law.
Then there's the condo sites in RV resorts in our state where you must own the deeded land and pay property taxes etc and have your own electric meter, to code approved septic system or approved community sewer system hookup, and your own approved well or hooked to an approved community water system. NO bending of the rules that we've ever seen or heard of in Michigan in our 51 years of RV'ing.
A mobile home park in our state can have different variations but are governed by the state rules and laws on the books regarding RV occupancy. We know as we/ve owned 4 one acre plus condo sites in a very large RV resort north of our main home since 1987 in Michigan that we use as a get away as it's in the huge national forest and we let our family use too with their RV's. Had to have our own water, septic, and electric and it's inspected and approved. I was on the Board of Directors for 9 years and know the state laws and they are enforced.
I/we do have a problem with seeing so many "recreational" CG's packed with permanent RV's/campers, park models, half converted busses, and pig sty sites when we travel around the country as that's not what the "recreational" CG's are for or were ever built for. Some states do allow it!
Camping is extremely popular in our state and nearly all of the several hundred thousand sites are needed in mid Spring, the Summer, and the Fall and of course, most close up for the Winter season so it couldn't be permanent camping/living anyway. In Winter, nearly all shute off the water and blow the lines out, close the dump stations and bathouses, and lock the gates. Those open all winter enforce their state mandated time stay limits.
