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Lots of potential

Original post made on Oct 8, 2018

Lots of Love, Mountain View's new safe parking program, has been up and running since July 9. Undoubtedly you have seen multiple news articles touting various perspectives and expectations for clearing the streets of RVs and providing safe places for our vehicle-dwelling neighbors to sleep. There have been high hopes, laments about a slow start, and predictions of small and fleeting benefits. While no one knows the final outcome, we, the Lots of Love team, want to share with the community what is happening, how we see progress over the next year, and opportunities to be involved.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, October 5, 2018, 12:00 AM

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Posted by Proud Taxpayer
a resident of another community
on Oct 8, 2018 at 12:45 pm

Proud Taxpayer is a registered user.

You can't solve the high price of housing without addressing the high price of running a business. Small mom and pop stores are being forced out by high rent. If we are going to provide valuable for temporary homes, we need to also provide space for businesses. Maybe for every 10 spots set aside for an RV, we provide one spot for a food truck, and one for a thrift shop or dollar store to use.


Posted by Olivia
a resident of Monta Loma
on Oct 8, 2018 at 4:12 pm

I don't like it, and "LoL receives funding from the city of Mountain View and Santa Clara County" means that it's not faith based, it's financially motivated. It's too much, and a ridiculous burden to place on the city. Lenny S., I sincerely hope you're not re-elected. You pretend to be about social justice and you're just a whore to Google and any other developers - just BS.


Posted by Anon
a resident of North Bayshore
on Oct 8, 2018 at 5:26 pm

This is honestly great! I've heard some terrible things about how providing bathrooms and safe parking encourages people to live in RVs and their cars. I think this is coming from a place of ignorance that leads to fear and misinformation. Very few people choose to live a life of uncertainty on the streets or in RVs. I am all for providing RV dwellers and others who are homeless with a safe place to sleep.


Posted by Enough Already
a resident of Rengstorff Park
on Oct 10, 2018 at 9:33 am

People should remember which council members-candidates support these RV's parking on the street, then vote them out.

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