There is very little new construction, or even expansion, of private RV Parks. The economic and political hurdles make it unfeasible.
Say I wanted to add 5 or 10 sites and I had the ground available to accommodate them. You would think it would be a simple matter of doing the construction. But NO!
Every entity gets their paws into the mix. The county requires a subdivision application. This requires environmental impact studies, showing the impact to Schools, Wildlife, Agriculture, community services etc. A public hearing must be held. State issued construction permits will require engineering reports on waste disposal and groundwater runoff. If the park is on it's own well, all the requirements to meeting a Public Water Supply must be documented. The fact the current system is approved and I intend to only Tee into that line doesn't mitigate the paperwork required.
When you sit down a figure out how much it is going to cost, how long it is going to take and how much frustration it will cause (think spending 12 months at the Department of Motor Vehicles frustrating) it becomes obvious that the best way to deal with a supply shortage of RV sites is to manage it from the cost side i.e raise rates.
BTW, those local, state and federally built campgrounds add to the shortage of RV Parks and sites. There is no way any private park can compete with a government park if the government decided to actually build and retrofit existing parks with competing amenities. That is always in the back of the minds of any park owner near any state, local or national park. Because of that omnipresent threat, it is prudent to never, ever, go all in on an expansion program.
