On TV (city channel 26) I caught the end of the agenda item Tuesday night regarding the referendum challenging the City Council's passage of an "oversized vehicle" ordinance. It appeared that the Council had placed the matter on the November ballot for voters to decide whether to approve or reject it. There will also be candidates on the November ballot for President and on down - including for City Council. Meanwhile, the "oversized vehicle" ordinance does not take effect. But, if I remember right, there is a 72-hour limit on parking on a city street without moving that could be more often enforced.

The 72 hr. limit is sometimes already enforced! (perhaps not much and it seems Not Enough). My own small RV (oversized - too Tall) was ticketed a few years ago, near a school, for exceeding the 72 hrs. About $82 I think.

Should I park it in my backyard, and Air B&B it? Without registering, like those large apartment owners (both rent control and short term rentals). Sounds like a dumb ass plan!

But what about as an Accessory unit, a month-to-month rental?

=== humor aside === Supervisor Cindy Chavez - in Mercury News coverage 1/15/20, shows she is not a Democratic Suburbanite (unlike Mayor MAK), pp B1 Local News ""Mountain View restricting RVs on their streets ... they did that without having a place for the RVs to go, and I worry other cities will get impacted. What I don't want to do is reward behavior that isn't aligned with what we're trying to accomplish."

A note to clarify the "Clarifys" and others speaking out of ignorance- As an actual case manager assisting the homeless in Mountain View, I can assure you that categorizing "vehicle dwellers", "tent dwellers", and people living outside, even under an overpass, as "Homeless" is perfectly acceptable as defined by HUD (Federal) and the County of Santa Clara. Rex makes some very salient points regarding the NIMBY reactions. The truth of the matter is that homelessness has increased by over 30% in the last two years in SC County. In the midst of plenty and prosperity for a few, you have a perfect storm of under-funded mental health services, Baby Boomer seniors that are priced out of the housing market, single parents- usually women, often victims of abusive relationships, with no job skills eking out an existence for themselves and their children, a county shelter system with about 1,000 spaces and over 9,000 homeless that have been counted("Santa Clara County officials conducted the biennial homeless census over two days in January 2019 and found 9,706 homeless adults living in the county's 15 cities and unincorporated areas, an increase of 2,312 from the 2017 count"), an influx of undocumented asylum seekers fleeing the cartels and gangs of Latin America where horrific crimes against the innocent go unreported in our media unless it occurs against American tourists. This is the poor among us. Even I, and all other Social Workers, qualify as "low income" based on the County's median income of $123,000/year. It is time for complaining to stop and citizens to step up. Government and faith groups, businesses, large and small. The Great Depression and the Dust Bowlalso resulted in displacement and homelessness. Certainly there are solutions from the past that can inform and inspire solutions for our poverty problems of today.
A note to clarify the "Clarifys" and others speaking out of ignorance- As an actual case manager assisting the homeless in Mountain View, I can assure you that categorizing "vehicle dwellers", "tent dwellers", and people living outside, even under an overpass, as "Homeless" is perfectly acceptable as defined by HUD (Federal) and the County of Santa Clara. Rex makes some very salient points regarding the NIMBY reactions. The truth of the matter is that homelessness has increased by over 30% in the last two years in SC County. In the midst of plenty and prosperity for a few, you have a perfect storm of under-funded mental health services, Baby Boomer seniors that are priced out of the housing market, single parents- usually women, often victims of abusive relationships, with no job skills eking out an existence for themselves and their children, a county shelter system with about 1,000 spaces and over 9,000 homeless that have been counted("Santa Clara County officials conducted the biennial homeless census over two days in January 2019 and found 9,706 homeless adults living in the county's 15 cities and unincorporated areas, an increase of 2,312 from the 2017 count"), an influx of undocumented asylum seekers fleeing the cartels and gangs of Latin America where horrific crimes against the innocent go unreported in our media unless it occurs against American tourists. This is the poor among us. Even I, and all other Social Workers, qualify as "low income" based on the County's median income of $123,000/year. It is time for complaining to stop and citizens to step up. Government and faith groups, businesses, large and small. The Great Depression and the Dust Bowlalso resulted in displacement and homelessness. Certainly there are solutions from the past that can inform and inspire solutions for our poverty problems of today.
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This is incredibly good news. Voters have been hungry for a say in this matter and frustrated with the do-nothing approach that has perpetuated this problem.

The only viable solution to this problem is to create more housing -- of any price range. The best thing the city could do would be to relax building regulations and reduce permit costs.

With respect to RVs, if the city increases funding and support for them, there will be more RVs. If the city (and voters) decide that they want fewer RVs, then passing laws to limit their available parking space will solve that problem.