RPV to limit on street parking of RV's

On Thursday evening, the RPV City Council voted to restrict overnight parking of RV's and other oversize vehicles on the streets of RPV. The Daily Breeze has more here. The City Council also voted to end further consideration of a city-wide ban of overnight parking of all cars on city streets. Instead, the Council advocated an effort to educate our residents about the existing procedures under our Municipal Code to allow neighborhoods to petition the city to require permits for parking in certain neighborhoods.

The ban on oversize vehicle parking as proposed by staff was as follows:

• All oversized vehicles will need to obtain and display an Annual Parking Permit;
• Oversized vehicle owners would be allowed to park in front of t heir property only;
• Overnight parking is prohibited between 2:00 A.M. and 5:00 A.M. except:
Residents with a valid oversized vehicle parking permit would be required to call the Lomita Sheriff Station and a Public Works parking hotline to register their intent to park on the street overnight (Staff believes 2 overnight parking exceptions per month will be adequate*);
• To implement the permit process, following adoption of an ordinance, residents would be given three months to obtain their oversized vehicle parking permit, enforcement would begin three months later; and
• The permit process would not pertain to vehicles actively making pickups or deliveries from any building or structure, oversized vehicles engaged in the construction, installation, or repair or maintenance of a publicly or privately owned improvement, oversized vehicles belonging to federal, state or local authorities or public utilities engaged in active work in the City, or oversized vehicles registered with the DMV to a disabled person.
• Property owners who wish to rent an RV could apply f or a temporary permit.
• As provided f or by the Vehicle Code, vehicles not parking safely or violating other conditions of the plan would be ticketed or towed.

The matter will return to City Council on the consent calendar with modifications made to the number of permits per year each resident could apply for.

I for one think this ban goes far enough and that any attempt to enact a city-wide ban on on street parking of all cars is not practical for certain neighborhoods of our city. Any neighborhoods who find that on street parking is a safety or aesthetic problem can petition the city to enact a permit system to fix the problem. You can view the video of last Thursday's meeting here.