Thank you for running this program! Everyone needs a safe place to stay. I am encouraged to hear that some past guests are on the path to permanent housing.

Kudos to those organizing this program - it's promising, and should be helpful to those selected to participate.

That said, it's not a solution to the RVs parked all over town...in residential neighborhoods, adjacent to parks, and encroached in bike lanes on busier streets.

Council points to programs like LoL, and avoids dealing with the RV issue. Removing 12 (or maybe it's just 6) RVs from the 300-400+ parked throughout Mountain View doesn't make even a small dent...and those 6-12 spots have already probably been backfilled by new arrivers.

In council candidate forums (and at council meetings), residents should demand a specific plan and timetable for addressing this issue. At a minimum, it's hard to fathom that RVs are allowed directly next to our parks, where families and young children (often alone) come to enjoy a safe and serene environment. There have also been anecdotes of RVs in neighborhoods dumping waste in rainwater drains.

C'mon council, get with it!

I'm all for private businesses and individuals choosing to share their property as they see fit.

However, the city should not fund or encourage this sort of vagrancy.

OMG! LOL!

Your heart is in the right place, but really - only 6 spots, with hundreds of RVs in and around the city of MV is hardly "working". That coupled with the fact that your program has been up and running for many many months now, certainly dictates that we need another solution.

We need a more aggressive stance to rid our nice town of unsightly RVs in the neighborhood. AND to help these people. But the good residents of MV should not have to have our city have RVs parked in the interim.

Pat Showalter has been one Councilmember that has been voting against helping us move the RVs off our streets.

I highly suggest you consider voting Showalter OUT this November; she is not helping this situation at all. Vote OUT Showalter.

Do not forget to add Siegel and Ramerize as people too NOT Vote for. They are both in favor of allowing RV's to stay on the streets.

This is a great idea but without additional enforcement this will never work. Just look at the Santa Barbara and San Diego ordinances and you'll see RVs are not tolerated on the streets:

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This seems to be completely lost on the current council: one only needs to look back at the 3/6/18 council meeting when Siegel, Showalter, Rosenberg and Clark voted against additional enforcement to curb the RV issue. I definitely know who not to vote for.

The current council seems incapable of solving the rv problem. Both ramirez and siegal claim that they want enforcement of the RHC. What does that mean? What a smear job. Neither of them has sat through a complete meeting of the rhc. They are getting all of their biased information from the tenant groups. The RHC is enforcing the ordinance correctly. Its the greedy tenants that want to screw small landlords more. Even a judge supported the RHC's decision to not include mobile homes. He slammed the other side. The tenant group shoiuld file a lawsuit if the think the RHC is violating the ord.inance. Of course thay wont because they know the RHC is doing its job correctly

I say vote for Kamei and Inks. They are the only adults running for council

The number of RVs have created a dangerous amount of blind streets. Most cases, it's either a toss-up of inching out so far and risking getting T-boned, or coming dangerously close to hitting a cyclist/scooter/motorist. On Shoreline, I have seen RVs parked dangerously close to the pedestrian crosswalks, so that you cannot see if someone is waiting there, and then steps out.

I'm sorry that so many people have to live in their vehicles. What I regret even more is that the City Council has absconded their pledge to uphold public safety.