RV Parking Restrictions - Santa Cruz, CA

Water-Bug wrote:
The PROBLEM isn't RVs, the PROBLEM is the Santa Cruz City Counsel. These are the same nuts that nearly jailed their local balloon blowing clown, because he was feeding expired parking meters that were occupied by vehicles that weren't registered to him. Metrer revenue wasn't enough, they wanted the fines.

EDIT. Google "Mr. Twister Santa Cruz" for tons of news coverage.

Lots of cities have similar laws and it's not just about collecting fines. When cities put in parking meters or time limited parking spaces, they do so because they only want people using those spaces for shot term parking. That's because businesses need places for their customers to park. What often happens is you will get a mix of retail businesses and professional offices in the same areas. The retail businesses need the parking spaces available for their customers who come and go. The professional offices don't need all the available parking for customers so the employees of those offices take up all the time limited parking spaces and then send somebody down every couple of hours to feed the meters for everybody. So it's not the city that wants the revenue so much as it is the retail businesses that don't want people taking up the same parking space all day and instead make it available for customers.