RV Park Is Accused of Violations : Ventura: City staff says permits limiting tenants to staying no more than 30 days in a row were apparently ignored.

The Ventura Beach RV Resort apparently was violating its city permit by letting campers live there permanently when the campground was flooded out last month, Ventura officials said Monday.

In a report presented to the City Council, city staff members quoted press accounts as saying that many tenants were allowed to stay more than 30 days in a row. Some tenants have said they would check out after a month and immediately check back into the park to get around the 30-day maximum stay allowed by the city permit.

If those accounts are true, the report said, the park violated its permit. The city staff said the 1985 permit was intended to prevent anyone from staying at the park more than 30 days in a row without leaving for at least two weeks.

Park developer Arnold Hubbard did not speak at the Ventura City Council meeting where the report was presented. But in an interview, Hubbard denied violating any conditions of the permit. He said his attorney interpreted the permit as allowing long-term tenants at the park.

Whether the park violated its permit has become an issue since last month’s flooding of the Ventura River, which destroyed or damaged dozens of campers and trailers. Some environmentalists and city officials have urged that the park either be prevented from reopening, or that new conditions be imposed to minimize losses in future floods.

Hubbard said Monday that he is unwilling to reopen the park under any additional conditions that the council might try to impose. But he added: “We’re willing to discuss anything that might be beneficial to the citizens and the community on a bilateral basis, but we’re not willing to change the conditions that exist,” he said. “All these conditions were settled.”