As of today, October 6, 2006, a new ordinance is in place in the City of L.A. that can prevent vehicles over 22 feet long and over 84 inches high to be parked on City streets between 2am and 6am... when signs are posted on the street by resolution of the City Council.
The new ordinance will directly impact RV owners, but there is a $10 per day permit that can be purchased from LADOT for "loading and unloading" as ong as that activity lasts no more than three days.
The ordinance language can be found here.
This was initiated back in 2005 by Councilwomen Hahn and Miscikowski, and it took over a year for the Department of Transportation to make a recommendation (this entire process had been overseen by the Interim General Manager). They came up with 9 scenarios, and the one adopted was, obviously, the one preferred by the City Attorney and City Council.
It has apparently been a major issue in the San Pedro area; so it will be interesting to see which streets in the City are first to be designated as no RV parking, er, "no parking of vehicles over 22 feet in length and 84 inches in height."
Photo of Torrance's RV sign (not L.A.'s) from Family Motorcoach Assn.
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How about that stretch of Riverside Drive alongside the Golden State Freeway? The nieghborhood got up in arms at the folks living in RVs there a year or so ago...
Good ol' "slow growthers". They prevent housing from being built, and when people take alternative action to provide themselves with housing - they ban that too.
Get the message poor people: you should just die. No one wants you around. You're scary, and poor.
It is a huge problem in San Pedro - and it's not just the poor. There's a lot of pricey recreational vehicles that are part of the problem as well.
I don't know about other areas, but since the change in law regarding abandoned vehicles, those are now piling up in record numbers, including a lot of wrecked vehicles just parked on the street, too.
This is a very poorly worded ordinance. It states that an RV must be both greater then 22 foot long AND 84" high. That only covers the largest of the motor homes that park in my neighborhood.
In Venice we have a full time population of motor-homeless that take up valuable parking, dump their waste at the curb and run their loud generators throughout the day and night. Many have satelite TV and I know for a fact that many own multiple vehicles in Venice.
Camping on city streets is illegal. If someone can afford to live in an RV then they can find a modest priced RV park to park it in too.
If the city makes it legal to camp on city streets then imagine the chaos that vacation spots like Venice will have to deal with when sun birds from throughout the country decend on our little community and turn it into one big free RV park. ~~ JF
As John was talking about, no one can sleep in a car on a public street. If you do see this, simply call 311 and report it to non-emergency police.
If neighbors of mine in Sherman Oaks reported a woman sleeping in a car one night (and they noticed this), they would have probably avoided the situation she created the next morning when she woke up and broke into the apartment complex and did other weird things.
It's the ones that cause the trouble and commit crimes that ruin it for the truly honest and homeless.
take up valuable parking
If parking is so valuable, why don't you ask the city to implement pay permits? Residents of Venice no more own the streets in Venice than they do the streets in Sylmar, Watts, or El Sereno.
Why do people think that they are entitled to a 10'x15' storage pad at no cost?
Why is signage required? To me this is worded backwards. Oversize vehicles should not be allowed to park on city streets overnight UNLESS there are signs allowing them to do so. Already it is illegal to park overnight where there are signs prohibiting it. This seems to just add another category.
Peter - talk to the coastal commission - if you restrict parking (make people pay) then you restrict beach access and the coastal commission smacks you
12:44 anon, I would think that the Coastal Commission would make an exception for Venice, given that it is one of the few beaches in the state that is readily accessible by public transportation.
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