5-Hour Limit for RV Parking to Be Enforced

Recreational vehicle owners who park on city streets for more than five hours without a permit are subject to tickets under new regulations passed by the City Council.

“This is a process that we’re trying to make as user-friendly as possible, [while] helping us to enforce RV parking when it becomes obnoxious or has become a sight problem,” Councilman Scott Diehl said.

The new regulation establishes an enforcement process for the current five-hour time limit for RV parking on all streets. If residents need more time to park their RVs, they must have a permit from the city, which they can get free of charge over the telephone. Residents are allowed up to six permits a year.

The permits will allow residents to leave their RVs on the streets 36 hours before and 36 hours after a trip to load and unload. But when the 36 hours expire, RV owners may not park on the street again for the next 24 hours.

And if an RV is parked longer than five hours without a permit, residents can file a formal complaint with police services, which will then send out deputies to issue a ticket.

The new parking rules will be enforced solely on a complaint basis, stressed Lt. Tom Davis, chief of police services.

“We won’t be driving around town looking for RVs,” Davis said.