town ordinace against travel trailers on city streets

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

Ken

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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..

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 ;)