COMMENT 325772
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2012-09-29 09:29 AM |
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I just had to post again.. This is great news! Please please please enforce no loitering/ no panhandling .. also long overdue.
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COMMENT 325522
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2012-09-28 03:59 PM |
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City streets are not zoned for residential use. That's the law.
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COMMENT 325772
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2012-09-28 11:09 AM |
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To the Few commenters worried that RVs can't park by the beach when passing through... Yes you can... Pull into one of the parking lots and pay 3 bucks for a couple hours, or pay 7 dollars to park for the DAY.. The ban is for the obtrusive and ugly free street parking that they squat on, block the view, and sort of camp out and claim their space.. No free ride to live on the most premium stretch of road that causes others to enjoy less and avoid these eyesores. Deal with it! No more BS.
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COMMENT 325267
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2012-09-28 10:07 AM |
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Hey RV dwellers, There are some great spots to "Park " for up to 72 hours along Mountain Drive, Gibraltar Road and Mission Ridge (City Views)
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COMMENT 325250
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2012-09-28 09:54 AM |
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To the many people talking about RV residents as 'homeless'- I find that funny- rv's are 'mobile homes' therefor they are merely house-less, not home-less. I agree that there should be specific places for people living in mobile homes to park, and not the touristy areas, but I think there should be somewhere for RVs to be able to park in the city. Also many people on the streets are given one way greyhound tickets from other towns, I have met many people who came here in the 80s an 90s from the la area and from the chicago area and the east coast, who were given an ultimatum a one way ticket to SB, or jail again and again for vagrancy. Cheaper for those towns to send them here. Haha!
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COMMENT 325522
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2012-09-28 09:47 AM |
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How are we doing on our 10 year plan to end homelessness. Tick, tick, tick ....... Banning RVs along Cabrillo, and everywhere else in town is a good start. Best way I know to end homelessness in Santa Barbara. Plenty of cheap place to park RVs legally in Tehachapi and live on an SSI check at the same time. There is no excuse to allow this illegal activity to take place here, when there are alternatives that are legal and conforming places to park.
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COMMENT 325208
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2012-09-28 08:54 AM |
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Hopefully this is a sign that Mayor Schneider is turning her back on the policy of absolute accomodation of the homeless and that she now favors "sustained deterrence." That is, by vigilently enforcing laws such as overnight camping in our parks and beaches, sleeping on sidewalks, overnight parking, and panhandling, many of the homeless will simply choose move to a different city.
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COMMENT 325522
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2012-09-28 08:31 AM |
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Yes, the ban needs to include all RV's - there is no discrimination against any one person or any one type of RV vehicle. It is a ban on all over-large, view-blocking vehicles squatting for hours in this public area. This area should have long ago have been striped for smaller parking spaces and parking meters should have been installed like any other tourist town demands. In that way it can be used by more people instead of the greedy few who have hogged this tourist venue for too long. RV tourists are just as much a blight on our streets as the vagrant wrecks. There is no loss to our city banning all of them. That is what commercial RV parks are for -- built to handle these over-large vehicles and provide safe places for them to handle their self-generated wastes and debris.
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COMMENT 325189
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2012-09-28 08:29 AM |
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If I read this correctly, a family traveling in an RV cannot park for an afternoon on Cabrillo Blvd., eat at a local restaurant and stroll along the waterfront? Once again Santa Barbara's inability to take a stand on the homeless issue back in the 1980s has ruined the good time for everyone else.
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COMMENT 325107
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2012-09-27 08:39 PM |
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This town needs more laws, and a heck of a lot more signs. We should have cameras on every street corner and offer free gas cards to anyone who commits any minor infraction.
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FIRST DISTRICT
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2012-09-27 08:36 PM |
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I'm looking forward to hearing the details on how this came about so that credit will go to the people behind it. This hasn't just made my day. . . It is way beyond that.
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COMMENT 325050
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2012-09-27 06:30 PM |
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Isn't there any room in the Casa Esperanza lot? If not, may I suggest Barstow or places farther east.
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COMMENT 324992
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2012-09-27 04:16 PM |
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They are up, I saw them on the way to work this morning.
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COMMENT 324971
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2012-09-27 03:49 PM |
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Yay, go home RV tourists! We don't want you parking along our beach....er, wait a sec....
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COMMENT 324929
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2012-09-27 03:09 PM |
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This is the best news I've had all day! Next let's enact/enforce no loitering laws on State Street pretty please.
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COMMENT 324908
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2012-09-27 02:52 PM |
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899 - Stop being so raceist... (Joke)
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COMMENT 325107
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2012-09-27 02:40 PM |
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Let's kick gangs out of Santa Barbara. We can worry about RV signs parking as line item #2 on the agenda.
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COMMENT 324890
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2012-09-27 02:23 PM |
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Goleta didn't waste time hand-wringing. Residents complained about RVs clogging up Winchester Canyon Blvd. The powers-that-be made it illegal to park on that street. Done and done. Thank G'd my kids no longer have to see the nice man urinating, defecating and emptying his trash against my back fence.
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COMMENT 325522
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2012-09-27 02:00 PM |
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The issue about RV parking prohibitions was concocted by a local progressive judge who made this "discrimination" issue up out of legal whole cloth. City legal department under its former progressive city council leadership accepted this lower court ruling, and backed down. This issue needs a new hearing and an appeal all the way to the Calif Supreme Court, so that all jurisdictions in this state must abide by the same regulations and not allow them put in more restrictive regulations, that end up flushing this RV problem on our accommodating door step. It is cheaper to appeal this legal restriction than to provide services for the hordes of RV's that now flock to our welcoming city because the former progressive city council blinked, when they should have stared this down.
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COMMENT 325208
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2012-09-27 01:50 PM |
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It's about time! Could this mean that Mayor Schneider has finally seen the light and realizes that her policy of accomodating the homeless just makes the problem worse? (Hope springs eternal, right?) Glad to see she's finally standing up for ordinary Santa Barbarans for a change.
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COMMENT 324875
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2012-09-27 01:42 PM |
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It's interesting to see the difference in the general tone of the comments here and those comments on the same article on the Independent website.
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COMMENT 324834
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2012-09-27 12:25 PM |
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How come Montecito doesn't have this problem?... I mean if I were an RV camper, just head on down to Butterfly! Of course you may need permission from the wedding planner there.. they seem to be squatting at Butterfly 24/7.
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COMMENT 324831
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2012-09-27 12:18 PM |
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814, Or, you know, the police.......
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COMMENT 324822
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2012-09-27 12:09 PM |
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I think the issue about controlling RV parking is that it singles out one type of vehicle for parking control. So is clearly aimed at the homeless, but also penalizes tourists, who we like to have in town because they spend a lot of money. Ventura can do it because there isn't an advocacy group there willing to sue the City. Our advocacy groups clearly want the problem to be visible in our City in the hope that someone might do something about homelessness one of these days.
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COMMENT 324819
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2012-09-27 12:05 PM |
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Bummer, I was just considering getting an RV and sleeping on the streets. Just think, no rent! I might've been able to save up a down payment and... and then... a home of my own!? What was I thinking? This is Santa Barbara! Oh well, back to work... rent's due in a few days...
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COMMENT 324908
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2012-09-27 12:03 PM |
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Great move by the city. Next up: Please clean up State.
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COMMENT 325107
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2012-09-27 12:01 PM |
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Call the Santa Barbara Land Trust to report illegal camping and RV squatters.
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ROGER DODGER
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2012-09-27 11:48 AM |
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It would be quite a show if they pulled in Tri County Produce lot I'd pay to see that...
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COMMENT 324806
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2012-09-27 11:46 AM |
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Can't even begin to describe the joy I feel about this. As a runner who frequents the waterfront, these moochers were a huge distraction and did nothing for the tourism of our town! Who wants to walk through a homeless camp?
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COMMENT 324802
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2012-09-27 11:36 AM |
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Yay! Cabrillo was becoming a pain to drive eastbound with all those motor coaches, rainbow vans and whiskey wagons hanging out into the lane, forcing everyone into the other lane. Good. Bye. I guess the guy with the sailboat camped out by the volleyball courts will have to put his yacht in the water! Where will they go next? Coming soon to a street near you! I'll guess by the Spearmint Rhino, Tri-County produce lot, and various Mesa streets by the park near Lazy Acres.
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COMMENT 324800
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2012-09-27 11:35 AM |
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It sucks that we have so many homeless in our country, but with unemployment numbers around 20% (check shadow stats, infowars, Max Keiser etc) this is not going away. I feel for them however they should not get the best spots in SB to hang out all day. Good job City!
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COMMENT 324795P
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2012-09-27 11:31 AM |
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@4791 for the win! Excellent suggestion, and much cheaper than putting up signs everywhere. That should be a COUNTY law too.
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COMMENT 325522
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2012-09-27 11:29 AM |
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About time! 100% support to do this. Thank you. Joke right? Saying no parking signs block the scenery, when these RV behemoths lined up chock-a-block blot out any possibility of ocean views? Ventura has it right. Enter this city from any direction and you are greeted with signs saying no RV parking on city streets. Simple, direct, comprehensive, fair and and done. Why aren't RVs lined up on the streets of Solvang? Lots of tourists to pan-handle there. Why only Santa Barbara among all the local communities, with spillover now creeping into Noleta and Goleta too. What is it about local politics that turned SB into an RV haven?
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COMMENT 324789
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2012-09-27 11:26 AM |
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785 - It is illegal in the City to camp on public streets overnight. When you see it, report it. (SBPD: 897-2300) The police do respond and we were able to successfully rid our neighborhood of RV squatters.
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COMMENT 324822
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2012-09-27 11:26 AM |
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Call the City Councilperson for your area and get them to act. Wait, our Council members are elected at-large and are not accountable for any one area! I guess you are out of luck. Whenever I call the police non-emergency number and report someone camping in their RV in our neighborhood, the police are pretty responsive about coming to check. Usually the RVers move on to find a neighborhood that is more accomodating. I don't mind the camping so much but they always use my curb as a bathroom and trash dump and I hate cleaning up after them.
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COMMENT 324791
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2012-09-27 11:26 AM |
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Why don't they just make it illegal to park an RV on the street, except in public lots where available? This would fix this ongoing issue once and for all!
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COMMENT 324784
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2012-09-27 11:14 AM |
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I'm buying a tent now.
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COMMENT 324785
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2012-09-27 11:14 AM |
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Can this also go into effect on Hope Ave, just past the car dealers next to the YMCA. There are a few people that setup camp, every evening. one guy even covers his ford explorer with a tent cover. We have called the police multiple times to no avail. Being this close to a place where little kids roam, i find this very creepy!
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COMMENT 325107
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2012-09-27 11:13 AM |
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Great - more signs to block the scenery.
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COMMENT 324782
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2012-09-27 11:11 AM |
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Halleluiah! LONG overdue!
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