Council to Consider RV Parking Limit
Despite protests from some owners of recreational vehicles, the City Council voted Monday night to reintroduce an ordinance that would set a time limit for parking oversized vehicles on residential streets.
Owners of RVs may now park on streets and in alleys for 72 hours. If passed, the new ordinance would reduce that to 24 hours unless the owners win special permission from the chief of police.
Don Ramsey, a 30-year Newport Beach resident and RV owner, asked the board to reconsider.
“RV owners are registered and licensed to use our streets and highways just as any other motorist. The fact that there are less than six complaints, according to your own Police Department, hardly justifies such a disproportionate reaction by the council,” Ramsey said.
“The safety issue is one of the perceived problems, I feel, rather than an actual problem,” Ramsey said.
The council voted unanimously, however, to go forward with the proposal, which had been introduced earlier but withdrawn to make wording changes.
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