I just bicycled down Shoreline and noted NEW signs - NO MORE PARKING for the service members of our community.

I guess Mountain View is following the old adage: No Money = No Bueno

In other words - if you can't afford it, get out of town!

The first problem is street campers don't just want a place to park. They want a free place to park. Ask them to pay $5 per night to cover costs and they complain.

The second problem is street campers don't want just free overnight parking, or just 24 hour parking. Street campers want to park for weeks and months at a time.

The third problem is street campers don't want just a free place to park for weeks at a time. Street campers want free parking, free water, free trash pickup, free electrical hookups, free sewage dumping, free security patrols, etc. for as long as they can.

As long as the government keeps trying to solve the simple problem, while the street campers want it all, there is never going to be a solution that works for everyone.

It should be illegal to park an RV on the streets. Period. They are a danger to drivers, cyclist, and pedestrians and are a blight on the community.

After years and years of it being unsafe to bike on due to the RVs, we may finally start to get out city back. So pleased!

@James...."in other words, if you can't afford it, get out of town"

Um, isn't that how its been in every city, in every state/ country/ everywhere, since infrastructure was invented? Right? My parents couldn't buy a house in neighborhood/city 'X' so we lived in neighborhood/city 'Y'. I couldn't afford "this" apartment so I lived in "that" apartment. If you can't afford "it" then you don't get said "it". Right? What am I missing?

Hmmm. Compassion? Inovation?

Hmmm, you state "My parents couldn't buy a house in neighborhood/city 'X' so we lived in neighborhood/city 'Y'. I couldn't afford "this" apartment so I lived in "that" apartment. If you can't afford "it" then you don't get said "it". Right? What am I missing?"
Tell us how you would change this? Because someone wants to live a certain place, the community should pitch in to make it happen? If I wanted to live in Atherton, should those residents make the possible for me? How about Portola Valley? Tell me how that would work, okay? Any rational person knows that you live where you can afford and do not expect taxpayers to cover your desire to live wherever you want. You talk big - but give us a solution. Right now, MV taxpayers are covering sewage and garbage removal for RV's on our streets - the majority of which are from other cities that refuse street-dwelling. Is the solution for you to let them park in front of your house and you supply them water and power? Can you provide your driveway? What is your next move? I really want to hear what your solution is.

I think the 2 'hmmm's are saying the same thing.

Most of the people leaving in Rv’s need a place to park not for one day or two more like long term Why not get a place that they can park for long term and charge $300 to $500 a month for the parking place tell them that they need to keep it clean or their gonna get kicked out and give it to someone else ... most of them will rather pay that amount then getting tickets all the time and also u will keep MV cleaner without them parking everywhere not now who’s leaving all the mess everywhere

@Sandy831 That place is called an RV park. Those exist in our area. Morgan Hill, Gilroy, Hollister. They even have vacancies, not for $ 300. But the point is, RV's belong in an RV park with services. Mountain View has turned into an RV park without services. The taxpayer picking up the tab for the mess. The county program can only work if we stop the influx of new RV's at the same time, limit parking for oversized vehicles.

Oh I know but they have kids that go to school in this area and I know is getting really bad but think about it better to have them in somewhere that they can be and they can afford paying parking lot for long term .Is ether that or have them everywhere on the streets they won’t leave cause they have jobs here kids go to school here .overnight parking won’t help .