town ordinace against travel trailers on city streets

[rode2nowhere]

I park my travel trailer on the street year round, our city it proposing an ordinance against it, what do other cities have out of curiousity?

[TXiceman]

I think parking the RV on the street looks plain tacky and is a safety hazard.

Ken

[dwayneb236]

Gotta think about space. Can a fire truck or ambulance easily get by. They shouldn't have to worm their way through. That's the question.

[jwmII]

I am sure your parking your Rv on the city streets year around is one of many reasons the city fathers are considering a new ordinance.
That is excessive.

[frankdamp]

We can't park on the street for more than 4 hours, I think, but parking on the driveway is allowed. We had room alongside the garage and added a third driveway. When we went from a 96" wide Class C to a 102" wide A, I had to prune 6" off the garage roof overhang.

The rig can't be "occupied", but we used it as "supplementary sleeping accommodations when we had more visitors than the S&B could handle. We didn't have the sewer hooked up, but we did hook up electricity and water.

In this town, so many people have trailered boats that it would be impossible to ban them from driveways. RV's got a break because of that.

[wbwood]

pappcam wrote:
We have a 48 or 72 hour limit in our city. During camping season when it's not actually at a campsite, I have mine in my driveway except for the day before a trip because my driveway is too sloped to use my fridge on. I pull it on the street the day before the trip to cool the fridge down so I can load it up and hook up and leave the next day.

When it's not camping season it's at the storage compound.

I would definitely not want a neighbour to keep their RV on the street all year.

Our driveway slopes to our house. So when we had the TT at the house, we parked on the side towards the back of the house. When we would get ready for a trip, we would pull it out to the top of the driveway to cool the fridge. But then we moved it to a storage yard because it became a pain to get out of the yard. Now with the motorhome, we park it in the driveway. We still pull it to the top of the driveway the night before leaving to cool off the fridge if we need to. But, we live in the county. We are in a neighborhood but there is no association. Our driveway is long enough that I can park another 32' or longer RV behind ours. If we couldn't have it there, then we would have it where we could or not live there.

[wbwood]

rode2nowhere wrote:
this is a small rural town of 8000.....unless they have a way of making money off the storage it is just unreasonable

I would think that passing it to make money off storage would be unreasonable...not "unless" they do it.

I would have to agree with many of the others. I don't think they should be stored on the street. Temporary parking, yes. But stored, no. The street (even in front of your home) does not belong to you. Actually, part of what you consider your property is probably not yours either.

[rolling_rhoda]

Our little city has debated this issue four times in five years. We're about to get our first ordinance. Some of the proposals have been quite extreme, IMO. I understand safety concerns and wanting to have a neat appearance. However, we are in outdoorman's country. The proposed ordinance isn't just about RV's, but it includes any trailer or recreational equipment. It also limits driveway parking of my husband's shiny, new pickup, and caps how many recreational items we can have in our yards. So, you can't have a little ice shack trailer in your driveway, rather it must be in the side or back yard...when the snow is 3 feet deep. Construction crews aren't supposed to park a trailer in the street while tearing down a house either.

[Tvov]

mowermech wrote:
... Our neighbor often has a flatbed or horse trailer parked in the cul-de-sac for long periods...

oooo... don't get me started on cul-de-sac parking! It is great that you get along with your neighbors, but in my town there are two streets in particular that people park in the cul-de-sac. I tow landscaping equipment daily, and can't make the turn around with vehicles in those streets (real fun making a multi-point turn around with a trailer!). School buses also have to make multi-point turns to make it around. Police usually get called a couple times a year, people move the cars temporarily, then they end up parking there again and it starts all over.

If it works where you are, you are lucky!

[SCVJeff]

rode2nowhere wrote:
I agree with most posts, now I will see what the city comes up with, this a smaller town and from what I see the storage facilities here have no room for camper or rv storage.

well maybe this is your opportunity to buy some cheap property and open an RV storage lot..

[OFDPOS]

rode2nowhere wrote:
I agree with most posts, now I will see what the city comes up with, this a smaller town and from what I see the storage facilities here have no room for camper or rv storage.

Big or small city/town I have yet to see one without some kind of parking storage.. That's major income for them !! Don't mean to start something, or sound like an a$$ just sounds like an excuse to me..

To make my MH fit along the side of the house , I actually cut the side overhang by a 1.5ft , it actually looks nicer than before 😉

[OFDPOS]

We also have the 72 hr clause , a few blocks away a guy had his TT parked in the street . He actually ground out one of the expansion joints in the sidewalk and laid the wires in the crack.
The neighbors were scared of retaliation from the people (yes even the kids) so it stayed there for close to two years. Someone finally called and complained so he literally moved the TT up on his lawn right next to the sidewalk.
Apparently he finally had had enough harassment (neighbor told me) from the city the trailer is gone..

Huh he was being harassed by the code enforcement officer (think about that for a minute)

Like alot have posted , park two cars across the street from each other and now its a bottle neck ! Throw in an RV/TT
I can understand the "have to park behind a fence or front pane of your house".
Nothing like trying to back out of your driveway and your next door neighbor has a 10 foot tall wall (RV, TT parked in their own driveway but its right out to the sidewalk ) blocking your view to the street.. So your halfway out in the street before you can even see past the RV/TT !

Its actually really sad anymore ,its now the "its all about me attitude" anymore..

[rode2nowhere]

I agree with most posts, now I will see what the city comes up with, this a smaller town and from what I see the storage facilities here have no room for camper or rv storage.

[JiminDenver]

It's 24 hrs on the street here and while it's a pain occasionally, I am glad when I see all off the people trying to bend the law. Some leave them there all summer and honestly, it's trashy.

The other thing is for $30 a month, I don't have to advertize that we are gone every time we go camping.

[pitch]

In my area of NY when you cross into a town there is always to my knowledge ,(to my knowledge) a sign post. This post will have a sign on it saying that Building Permits are required in the town of xxx. Also on this Post will be a sign informing that no solicitation is allowed with out a permit. Also on this post will be a sign stating that there will be no overnite parking on any road or highway in the town of xxx unless otherwise posted. Leash law will usually be denoted there also.
In my town the building permit sign seems to be the only one that counts