Illegally parked RVs are all around the City of Concord, with more and more popping up every month.
QUESTION: Do you think the City of Concord should crack down on illegally parked RVs, such as the ones pictured above that are blocking half a lane and parked in a “No Parking, Tow Away Zone?”
Tell us why you answered “yes” or “no.”
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They should crack down on anything that is illegal. I’m hearing some of these RV are being rented to people to live in. One person in Oakland didn’t pay the ‘landlord’ so the landlord set it on fire. I’m sure all that tags are current, LOL. Ticket and Tow ’em.
If you or I did do, we’d get ticketed, fined and towed before you could finish reading this.
However, the privileged class du jour gets a free pass.
If illegal, they should pay the cost!!! Otherwise what incentive do the rest of us have to keep paying taxes and supporting the governments salaries.
Yes, it is a no parking zone for a reason
No they shouldn’t! What’s wrong with illegal parking and living on city streets? Nothing bad could possibly happen
They are impeding the flow of traffic. A car accident or worse a car vs pedestrian accident just waiting to happen.
Sarcasm…..it’s not for everyone
Your sarcasm-meter is busted.
Yes
If it’s illegal, then ticket them. Why shouldn’t they be ticketed?
If we just built more affordable housing these RV’s would become less and less common. Just sayin.
Yeah, and if money just grew on trees….bla bla blah.
You first.
How about instead of sending corrupt foreign nations hundreds of billions of dollars to fight eternal wars we subsidize new homes and roads?
Yes. Illegally parked RVs Is supposed to be illegal. We either have laws or not.
There is an overflow bart parking lot behind Police station, has a fence around it.
Water shouldn’t be to hard to pipe in, set up porta pottys an there ya go.
Provide a viable alternative site as opposed to in your face enforcement.
City council members get a list of city owned land not being used
and for a change make a difference.
And.. Who pays for all that set up.. And then the ongoing costs.. And then deals with all the LIKELY Issues…
Versus costs now ?
Cost of monitoring and removing from streets,
versus a few locations mobiles can be parked.
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Cost of many man hours needed for trash cleanup,
versus covered dumpsters like you have when you go camping.
Talk nice, give garbage bragging rights and they might site them for free.
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Cost of outreach services man hours searching the streets to provide info and help
verses a visiting a few locations where mobiles are encouraged to park.
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Having mobiles parking randomly around the city is not an efficient use of resources.
Having a few locations means Police can provide services and could patrol regularly.
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Spent many years planning projects and coming up with infrastructure, parts and staging for those projects. Setting up a few locations for mobiles to go would be simple and would save city and county money.
Now all they have to do is let their FRONT LINE boots on the ground people do the planning.
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Designate a place to park them & charge a fee.
yes they made us put our rv in a rv storage place and have to pay money and not be able to easily maintain it being away from home like 10 years ago told us to get it off the street that we couldn’t have it in front of our own home anymore so why should these people who are not even paying registration or have insurance be able to park anywhere they want.
Same with neighbors with RVs. They are allowed to park on the street for 72 hours only and of course not in a “no parking” spot.
Who’s the one who decides what rent is “affordable” for “affordable” housing around here?
When decent people working decent jobs can’t afford it, that term is meaningless.
You have to earn three times your rent?
Who PAYS that much for most jobs that aren’t in tech or professions like medicine or law?
People get squeezed on both ends – hard work for skimpy pay on one end, and high prices on the other.
THIS GENERATION NEVER SAW the time when ONE INCOME paid for a family of four, so they think this is normal.
It isn’t, it shouldn’t be, and people trying to keep from living in tents on the streets shouldn’t be demonized and penalized because our government won’t do the sensible things like stop price gouging by corporations and foreign land developers.
“What the market will bear” will kill us. Because there WILL BE SOMEONE who can pay that price who will leave the rest of us in their dust. Or in their RVs.
Growing up we three kids lived comfortable and Mother never worked.
Father worked a living wage job.
Would we have a housing shortage
if illegals were not flooding across the southern border ? ? ?
Of course.
They would give us a ticket or towed if we parked there.
There are two maybe three Motorhomes parked in the lot of cvs across from concord bart. They been there for months. Why arent they getting kicked out?
Yes! And I say Jim ponies up double for the low income housing.
Tow them. Arrest the occupants on vagrancy charges. Burn the RV and send the bums to jail.
The question you should be asking is, why does concord Police allow these to be parked there? Seems they are complicit in the problem if they are not towing these vehicles.
Yes, they litter all over, it literally becomes a dumping ground! I’ve seen reminents of drug use, etc! Animals running loose with no leash, some with no visible tags. It’s endless! Maybe if there were designated parking areas away from businesses & residential. Maybe have a few dumpsters placed there with the responsibility of keeping their area clean! If they fail to adhere to the rules during their encampment, then remove them! At some point they need to be responsible for their behavior! I get it, hard times happen all the time! At some point if you’re asking for help you have to follow the program! J/s
If it’s clean and registered, the will mess with you. If there’s a swarm of drugs addicted clowns, good to go. Concord is backwards
The city spent a lot of money eliminating car lanes and setting up bike lanes, lanes that are rarely used except on days like the 4th of July. Why not do something for the RVs? People complain about the homeless problem. Fight for a solution, not for the extreme of ticketing and towing. That is pure cruelty. To the person who chatted that a resident of a mobile home/RV who couldn’t pay his rent so it was set on fire by the owner. Not only was it cruel, it could have been devastating had someone been inside, and after burning it down, the bozo will NEVER get rent for it again since he destroyed it. The owner should be cited for Larson and attempted murder.
Here’s an idea: Let them park all the derelict RVs in the unused bike lanes. There always seems to be several bicycles accompanying those RVs so the idea really does support the lane’s intended use.
In this economy, how many paychecks are you away from being unhoused ? ? ?
Literally thousands, now.
But I spent years as a housing insecure drifter. At all times, I nonetheless fastidiously maintained whatever living area I managed to wrangle and practiced leave-no-trace comping in discreet locations when I found myself between indoor living situations.
Being homeless is not a crime. Many homeless people are just down on their luck yet conduct themselves with dignity and strive to improve their circumstances. They are not the social scourge that demands a harsh policy response,
Acting like a degenerate bum, polluting your environment with blight and squalor and setting fires, however, is absolutely criminal and deserves no comparison or accommodation.
@Chuq
There’s nothing wrong with protecting rights.
The cost to legally get rid of these RV’s is prohibitive. Most of the one’s parked on the street do not run nor can they be titled for operation. Tow yards sell them PNO: Planned Nonoperation (vehicle status) for very little $, then tow them out to the street and park them. The buyer lives in it or rents it out.
Of course, they are breaking the law and we are a country of laws (at least until recently), not of suggestions. Why is this even a question?
If an RV is parked on private property/a business property, the police cannot do anything unless the property owner/business owner calls police and ask that they be removed. The police have no jurisdiction over private property until the owner of the property gets involved. Public streets are a different story, of course. So don’t complain that the police are not doing enough. It is not illegal to park in a parking lot unless the business owner ask that they be removed. Don’t blame the police for the results of property owners not taking action, policies put in place by elected politicians, etc.
Yes of course ….. why are they not now? …someone lacking the guts to do the right & legal thing?
It’s not illegal to be homeless and they tend to know where they can and cannot park.
As long as they move their vehicles every 3 days, there’s not much the police can do about it.
I note when they arrive and call it in as soon as time is up … and of course sooner if there’s noise, mess or violent behavior, or if e.g. lots of strung out people are coming and going.
I had one guy set up his charcoal bbq on the sidewalk and grill his dinner, I called the fire dept and *they* said there was nothing the could do about it !?!
Tow every last one of them away and do not give them back unless they are currently registered and insured.
This includes all illegally parked ones; no parking, non-registered, >72 hours, etc.
most of them are an eyesore with the tarps covering the roofs, windows, the piles of trash surrounding them, the black water tank dumps, the stolen bicycles around them, etc
All previous comments to this dilemma answers the question, and i suspect is precisely why the city is reluctant to respond…there’s no consensus about anything in our society anymore….any move they would make in trying to correct it, would be smothered in criticism……our whole culture, i’m afraid has become dysfunctional.
You nailed that on the head…..
I wish there was a cut and dry answer for this situation. My opinion is send them into some industrial area and let them do their thing, However, they do have rights even though they do not follow rules, are messy , do drugs(and yes, the majority of them) and trash up neighborhoods. If they come up with some sort of a plan, it’s going to piss people off but if nothing gets done, it’s going to piss people off. We don’t want the trash in our neighborhoods and a lot of these “unhoused” have been given options and they don’t want to have to follow the rules that the rest of us hard working, law abiding citizens have to follow. They are being ALLOWED to park rv’s and live in them sometimes in public places( ie: parks in our city)
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