When will Mountain View finally ban living in RVs on our streets?

In addition to vouchers for free RV waste dumping, when will the City of MV also provide vouchers for free health insurance, dental insurance, food, clothing, wireless broadband, water and electricity hookups to any and all RV dwellers on its streets? Surely they are deserving hard working locals displaced by gentrification. This is what the compassionate citizens and taxpayers want, right?

My Nest cameras caught the one who looks like Charlie Manson lurking around my house in the Crossings about 2 weeks ago in the middle of the day. I've given up calling the police and complaining to the city on issues like this. The police will do nothing but occupy about an hour or more of your time, collecting more information on you as the reporting party and then tell you there is nothing they can or are willing to do. It's completely backwards. And you'll never see the police patrolling around the neighborhood. It all makes me believe the city has told the police to keep law abiding homeowners and residents in line while the RV population is allowed all sorts of exceptions.

The city council should stop playing games with the RV issue. Energize the police. Enforce the law. Stop making excuses. I don't want to have to confront some one strung out on meth the next time I exit my house with my kids. Who would? This entire problem has been created by the city council and a police force committed to doing nothing. Let's start voting them all out in the next election!

You cannot judge all the people living in RVs in our city by those mentioned in this article. I encourage you to listen to the NPR podcast "The Intersection." Web Link

In it you'll hear stories about hard-working Mountain View residents who live in RVs. They are hard-working, good people, and should not be vilified because they choose to or have no choice but to live in an RV. The entire podcast is really well done and should be required listening for all MV residents.

This situation does not have a clear cut solution. You can't just say "no" to RVs, nor can we live without some restrictions. City council, put on your thinking caps and try to find compromise. And remember, there are human beings at the center of all of this.

MH, the clear cut solution to this is to raise taxes on wealthy landowners, individual and corporate, to fund the building of high density affordable housing. We should be redistributing the massive amounts of wealth these people have attained solely by owning land, and redistribution it to the less fortunate.

Well, Yes. Yes we can say no to RVs. If they are parked illegally, if they are over 6', if they are illegally dumping, we are already do say no... but its not enforced.

Put on those "thinking caps", raise some property taxes on the corporations, and add affordable housing AFTER clearing out the uncontrolled RVs. Move then to places that won't interfere with safe traffic flow, register the owners/residents so there is accountability, eliminate the RV-for-rent businesses that are operating, enforce and charge for waste removal (!!) and arrest anyone selling drugs or worse.

I do not see how allowing this to continue ends well. It cannot be allowed to continue increasing indefinitely. It will only be harder and more trouble when the numbers of people depending on this lifestyle increase. The longer people live this way the more complicated it will become to move them. And any city provided services, including waste removal MUST be paid for by the RV residents.

If supporting free waste removal for RVs out of the city budget seems unreasonable, imagine paying the cost of towing and disposing of the derelict RVs after the "residents" are out. Or have we already resigned ourselves to seeing hem permanently lining the roads?