Parking rules for RVs tighten

The City of Long Beach should adopt stricter RV parking regulations such as banning the unpermitted street parking of RVs and trailers, except for loading and unloading. Why? As soon as surrounding cities pass their regulations, RVs have been proliferating on the residential streets of Long Beach. The children of parents who live in Long Beach are parking (and living in) their RVs in front of their parents' homes. RVs are a safety hazard because they block visability, not to mention that they make our neighborhoods look like a tacky trailer park. The RV owners who park permanently on residential city streets are being disrespectful of property owners, creating a safety hazard and selfishly taking street parking spaces away from the neighborhood. Its bad enough that our home values are tumbling, the last thing we need are RVs further diminishing their value. Long Beach City Council members, please do something to get the errant RVs off residential streets, please! Long Beach residents, stop RVs from blighting our neighborhoods by calling your City Council representative:
http://www.ci.long-beach.ca.us/council/defaul...

Hey Los Al, you are wrong. Do some research before you make such big waves. First problem is we don't have a problem with people LIVING in RV's - this is propoganda. Secondly, if it was a true safety issue then why do all the laws concerning "RV" parking include boats and personal watercraft? Last time I checked, my suburban is bigger than my boat trailer - yet under all the city restrictions I would NOT be able to park my boat in front of my house (although my suburban could stay there as long as I want). This whole thing is a bunc of crap. Drive down Studebaker or Los Coyotes from Carson to Spring, and count the number of rouge RV's you see parked. The number is much smaller than what council woman Schipske makes them out to be (if you didn't know she is the one leading the ban RV charge in Long Beach). I think my city tax dollars could be better served having the numerous pot holes fixed along these two streets - which by the way are PROVEN to be dangerous to traffic and are PROVEN to been responsible for causing traffic accidents (as opposed to the "safety concerns regarding oversized vehicles"). Go back to Los Al and keep your opinions to your own City Council.

Hey Los Al, you are wrong. Do some research before you make such big waves. First problem is we don't have a problem with people LIVING in RV's - this is propoganda.

Wrong, Resident.

Take Northbound Stanley off of Anaheim Blvd. Halfway up the block on the East side of the street is a 24' Crap-a-Bago repleat with full time inhabitant. Be sure to knock on his door and introduce yourself.

Damn glad I'm vacating this barrio.

People are parking their hideous monstrosity RVs in Long Beach residential neighborhoods and living in them too! Please don't turn East Long Beach into a slum, move along.

Wonder if we can post the offending RV plate numbers here?

Sorry but when you own a vehicle, it's registered, insured, is in working order and you pay taxes on it, then you should damn well have the right to park it in front of your house!
This used to be a free country and you're all f*cking it up by whining about every little thing your neighbors do or own! Maybe you should try minding your own business! Unless a total stranger in an RV pulls up in your driveway and camps out there, then stop complaining!! You are ruining this country!!!!

How about the fleet of RV's parked on the north side of Patrick Henry School. BTW - that side of the street is Long Beach even though just across the street is unincorporated LA County.

Umm excuse me but I think we are making much ado about nothing. People need to focus more on the pervasive crime on our streets then a couple of RVS parked where they should'nt be. Get your priorities in place people!

ICU2 wrote:

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WOW ! Did you really write that all by yourself ?
I bet your family is really proud of your use of the English language.
I invite you to park your bucket of bolts on Woodruff between Carson & Harco. I'm sure that the neighbors still have some eggs left over from the last group of morons who parked there.!!!

I agree that ther should be regulation on where these monstosaties park. However, people like ICU2 should be prosecuted for their vandalism. Criminal lawbreakers like that do not make for good neighbors and should be ashamed of themselves. They call for the rule of law until it suits their purposes to break the law.

JSC wrote:

Sorry but when you own a vehicle, it's registered, insured, is in working order and you pay taxes on it, then you should damn well have the right to park it in front of your house!
This used to be a free country and you're all f*cking it up by whining about every little thing your neighbors do or own! Maybe you should try minding your own business! Unless a total stranger in an RV pulls up in your driveway and camps out there, then stop complaining!! You are ruining this country!!!!

Is the town you live in a noun or a verb?

dont be a baby about the rvs bein park on your streets, yes mom and pops have a home and we live in our rv infront of there house, people are going poor we are in a depression people make the best of your rvs live well live another day the rv way yeah i think someone should write a song about the rvs

lav wrote:

dont be a baby about the rvs bein park on your streets, yes mom and pops have a home and we live in our rv infront of there house, people are going poor we are in a depression people make the best of your rvs live well live another day the rv way yeah i think someone should write a song about the rvs

After reading your post, I think I know why you're living in an RV parked on the street.

Good topic!! If a person owns a RV, it should be parked on their own property. If it is parked on the street, and not blocking anyone's view, it should be parked in front of the owner's home and no one elses.

My neighbor has a commercial size truck. Street legal for parking on residential neighborhoods. Only thing is he doesn't park it in front of his own house. He parks it mostly on the side of my house. This means that when I open my curtains, what I see mostly is a big commercial truck. How can I stop him from parking in front or on the side of my house?

Westside Dweller wrote:

Good topic!! If a person owns a RV, it should be parked on their own property. If it is parked on the street, and not blocking anyone's view, it should be parked in front of the owner's home and no one elses.
My neighbor has a commercial size truck. Street legal for parking on residential neighborhoods. Only thing is he doesn't park it in front of his own house. He parks it mostly on the side of my house. This means that when I open my curtains, what I see mostly is a big commercial truck. How can I stop him from parking in front or on the side of my house?

Cover the offending vehicle in bird seed and let nature take it's course...

If you own an RV you should be able to afford to store it. Plain and simple.

LBJJ wrote:

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Cover the offending vehicle in bird seed and let nature take it's course...

I like this idea!!

RV Hater wrote:

If you own an RV you should be able to afford to store it. Plain and simple.

I couldn't agree more!

I live in 90815 and my next door Neighbor now has 8 cars and most are junkers. They are turning the neighborhood into another Hawaiian Gardens. It's very unfortunate they are trashing the neighborhood.

LBJJ wrote:

Hey Los Al, you are wrong. Do some research before you make such big waves. First problem is we don't have a problem with people LIVING in RV's - this is propoganda.
Wrong, Resident.
Take Northbound Stanley off of Anaheim Blvd. Halfway up the block on the East side of the street is a 24' Crap-a-Bago repleat with full time inhabitant. Be sure to knock on his door and introduce yourself.
Damn glad I'm vacating this barrio.

So, you've found ONE example and that indicates a PROBLEM to you. Get real. I bet its safe to say that nearly any town in the US can state that there's a good chance ONE of the RVs in its city limits is being used as a permanent home. I think we're all glad you're leaving.

Westside Dweller wrote:

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I like this idea!!

If you have a young family that you're trying to provide a decent life for in this day and age when things are so tight and you're fortunate enough to be able to get an RV to do those family things with them rather than let them wander around getting into trouble, the last thing you should have to worry about is whether some uptight moron is unhappy with your RV parking. We pay taxes to live here. RVs are part of the deal as it should be. Better RVs on the streets than bored kids. Get a clue people. Its a small price to pay. It tells me that its a safe, family friendly community and that's what we should all want.

Objective reader wrote:

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So, you've found ONE example and that indicates a PROBLEM to you. Get real. I bet its safe to say that nearly any town in the US can state that there's a good chance ONE of the RVs in its city limits is being used as a permanent home. I think we're all glad you're leaving.

I'm very real.

I choose to live under a roof with a street address.

It's sounds like you're a frustrated RV squater who just tasted the urine in your cheerios.

Your attitude leans more towards SUBJECTIVE than objective.

Here, I'll type this s-l-o-w-l-y so you can comprehend this communication despite the low lighting in your crap-a-bago:

RVs BELONG IN RV PARKS, NOT ON PUBLIC STREETS.

So go pedal your mobile eyesore and your feeble need to insist that others live like heathens ELSEWHERE. If your opinion receives no complaints, then you've succeeded in finding your septic nirvana.

...and no one is happier than I