City of Grants Pass OR
Parked at moms this Christmas and visited untill bedtime. Spent the night in the camper and learned today that is NOT ok. Not sure what we will do now though it seems if we unplug and run the slid...
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JimK-NY wrote:Basically the law is stating that it is unlawful to sleep in RVs (and probably all other conveyances) on city streets. I don't see how any government body would want to overturn such a law. If RVs are OK, what about tents? Should it be legal for truckers to line the residential streets with idling rigs while they are catching Z's in the sleeper? Does anyone really think a law stating it was perfectly legal to homestead on city streets would gather a single vote?
Years ago there were lots of "vagrancy" laws on the books. The courts disallowed them but that does not stop the uninformed local lawmakers from violating the rights of citizens. On the other hand that is not a battle I would want to undertake. Sadly bad laws end up leaving many of us with no respect for the laws or the lawmakers.
It isn't like there aren't dozens of other options. The guy could have parked on his mother's property, but apparently the driveway is too steep. But that is not a problem for the city to solve. He could have stayed in a motel or could have stayed in an RV park, either public or private. But he thought that was too inconvenient. Again, cities are not tasked with making everything in life convenient. The guy could have just parked on the street and slept inside his mother's house. But yet again, that apparently wasn't his plan.
The odds are almost all the residents of the city have no idea such ordinances are on the books. They just know that RVs are not cluttering the public streets and that works for them. No resident wakes up every day and thinks their town would be paradise if only there were more people sleeping in RVs on Main Street. Most people are just fine with results and couldn't care less about how those results are achieved. My guess is any awareness the OP raised about that ordinance by going so public would only serve to embolden residents to become more aggressive in reporting and attempting to remove RVs parked on the street. It would give them use of a tool they didn't previously know existed.
