jpreiserLegally and what you do are sometimes 2 different things. So I d rather not say. We have had too many people called for other things.
Our neighbor behind us has called the Board of Health (4-5 times a year) because we have 5 dogs, and recently the police because our small car hangs over the sidewalk because we keep the camper in the driveway and put the small car in the driveway as we cannot leave a car parked on the street for more than 48hrs or it will be ticketed and towed. I m sure the camper will be next on her hit list.
jpreisergawd...don t you jsut hate taht nancy
i do live in a town...but i can park it anywhere i please....cuz i live on two acres on a hill. but it goes in our huge garage, cuz its my baby.
jpreiserWe have to use a storage lot to keep ours. Our Home Owners Association won t allow campers, boats, any vehicles with any type of company name, vehicles over a certain size, etc. in site at all. We live in townhouses with no garage...so...we have to pay to store it. I would love to be able to have it at home to play with when ever I wanted!
jpreiserI pulled the PU into the back yard but now I need to finish the privacy fence. Technically it has to be parked on concrete, but since my neighbor has a car parked in his back yard (behind a fence) I m not too worried. My brother did have to move his boat from his backyard after the neighbors called and he even had an alley access to his back yard and a gravel driveway back there.
I park my PU anywhere I can find a level enough spot to put it. They don't call WV the mountain state for nothing. :) I feel sorry for all of you. Just another reason I don't want to ever live in town. In my opinion if you own a piece of property you should be able to do with it what ever you want, without anyone telling you what you can do and can't do. Don't get me wrong if you have an eye sore or a danger to public saftey that's another matter. VJM if your homeowners assosiation will not allow a vehicle with a company name, what would residents do if an employer provided them a company vehicle with the companies logo on it?:confused: Ok I'm done ranting.:D
QuoteVJM if your homeowners assosiation will not allow a vehicle with a company name, what would residents do if an employer provided them a company vehicle with the companies logo on it?
as738... they actually have to either rent a parking space somewhere else (there are vehicles of this type where we park our camper) or store it in a garage. None are allowed in the open areas. And...it's not as easy as some say to "move elsewhere" . The vast majority of neighborhoods in the DC Metro area (Northern Virginia, DC, Maryland) are all the same!
As long as it isn't in the road or on someone else's property, we can keep it anywhere we want. :)
We can park it anywhere we want to here in Santa Cruz,Ca. Cant park on the street at our house located in Show Low,Az.
Wow! I've been too busy to check this site for a while - probably been 2 months. Anyway... just a few changes!! I'm not sure what happened while I was gone!!??
Anyway! We park our PU in the driveway during the summer, but put it in the backyard in the winter so I can put my car in the garage. It's kind of a pain in the summer to block up the driveway, but we live on a BIG hill and the driveway is the most level spot we have to work with.
Denise in Montana
We are in a townhome, and our association is pretty particular about parking RVs. And, just my luck, I have an association board member directly accross the street.
We are not allowed to part our RV anywhere where it may be visible to anyone at anytime. Same goes for our kids. They dont want to hear or see them anywhere in the neighborhood. They recently took down the "Caution, Children at Play - Drive Carefully" sign at the entrance to our complex because they felt the sign might encourage children to play in the complex. They would really prefer we sell the PU, adopt out our children, and trade in our blue curtains for white ones. So much for land of the free!
We were keeping the PU in the garage, but recently I bit the bullet and rented a space for it in nearby Irvine. (there are no storage faciities in our town.) $70 per month. geez.
Now we can use the garage for all kinds of association-prohibited activities!
We kept ours in the garage the last two years but now we have rented a storage area. This storage area allows us access anytime. The reason we didn't store it before was that the storage places that were close only allowed you to take your camper out in the spring and we usually like to go camping down south during the kids spring break in March. It's nice not having it in the garage or the driveway. But in our town you're not allowed to park a RV on the street.
in the next state! we have a seasonal site in sussex nj
Right now, it sits next to the garage. We rent, but the garage is still full of the landlord's junk, we're waiting for him to move it out.:rolleyes:
No restrictions as to parking-the advantage of living in a small town.:W
This article was in our local paper this morning -- this is a suburb of Cincinnati. I wanted to share here and also am starting a new topic as this is only a poll and I think the suburb could find better things to do with their resources and time.
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/12/06/loc_newtown06.html (//%22http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/12/06/loc_newtown06.html%22)
Our neighborhood is older, so we don't have restrictions. Our town is also unincorporated, so we don't get stuck with all the limitations of the nearby towns. They have yet to show us a single thing they got from this "benefit", yet I can show them a list of what they've lost. ;) Yep, we have police, fire, and medical, just like them.
My camper sits on my side lot, under an awning: http://2manytoyz.com/camp/mods/awning.jpg
That's next to my utility trailer and shed. Other nearby neighborhoods prohibit any of this. Good for them. Their neighborhoods do stay tidy, but I'd rather have the full use of MY yard!
My neighbors own boats, a horse trailer, campers, etc. Everyone maintains their yards, and I don't know of anyone in my neighborhood with a heap parked in their yard.
I'd be fighting the ruling from the previous post.
I live in an older neighborhood, in the county with limited deed restriction and they are really county regulations.
I have the popup in the front drive (we have a double drive in the front of the house and it continues as a single drive to the other street, running behind the house) the house sits catty-cornered on the corner lot with a drive that runs from one street to the other, we do not have much of a back yard as it is filled with the drive and 3 sheds. I park the minivan behind the Jayco, the Pick up is parked in front of the gate, next to the popup, and the Corolla is parked next to the minivan, behing the pick up.
The Bantam sits back by the back gate (we have an inset that is long enough for one car or to straighten the camper and safely back up the drive to the Bantam). Because of the length of the Bantam, and the way the addition was built and the wooden privacy fences and all the sheds, you can only get it in from the front and go around the house. If you try bringing it around the back gate, there is not enough room to swing as the sheds are in the way.
No one complains as there are others who have campers/MHs and kids (oh yes all those kids catching rides on trucks and cars in the snow and throwing snow/ice balls at cars as they go by).
I guess I am pretty fortunate, we have restrictions in our town as to what and where rec vehicles can be parked. I have a three car garage that sometimes houses it, but for the most part, it stays in the barn about 5 miles away. I prefer the barn to the garage, because if I have to work on it, I can open it up inside, there is no phone service in the barn, and no one can bother me that I didn't bring with me! :J
Under the pole barn in the backyard campsite on the 2 acres I have in the country. We can set up and have a backyard camp out and since it is behind the outbuilding you can't see any houses easily or any light from houses
When we were house shopping 16 years ago when my DH was relocating for a new boss we dellliberately looked for a home in an un-incoorporated developement. DH and I have a real problem with others telling us what we can and cannot do with OUR property. Our old pop-up (and now our Hybrid) are parked next to our carport on a gravel pad. Our next door neighbor was consulted, out of courtesy, and it was all given the okay. They saw how much we've enjoyed camping through the years and are now proud owners of a Trailer and seasonal site for their retirement years. Basic "eyesore" and "health" laws may be necessary but as long as everyone in a neighborhood is thoughtful of their neighbors, restrictive laws should not be necessary (in a perfect world....I know). Just my $.02 worth.
Cheryl
DEAD THREAD DREDGED
:p There hadn't been a post in this thread since January of 2004. You got nailed by a newbie, Cheryl. :D
Oooooooooooooopppppppppppssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ours is now parked in the driveway.
thanks Willc for adding to the thread, glad you "got nailed" cheryl, you kept it on top! and now the newbies can keep it going! or the old bies who missed it the first time around can join in!
Our town ordanance states that all RV's, boats, trailers, etc must be stored past the back wall of the home, and behind a fence of some sort.
Since I have a PU and like to keep it out of all the weather, mine is stored in my attached garage.
There are a couple of storage facilities located in town, but I use to store my boat over there, and things would mysteriously become MIA.
wow..talk about finding things on "dead threads"...I see where I wrote to begin with (In October of 2003) that we had to store ours at a storage lot and that I'd love to keep it at home. Well....as of last October, we sold the townhouse and bought our camper a house where it could have a yard to wait in in between trips! LOL I DO like having it at home. I'm always finding reasons to open it up for something and it sure makes last minute trip decisions quicker!
CC&R's do not allow us to park in visible sight of street. Our side yard is not large enough so we keep it in the garage (barely). Such is life in So. California.
Quote from: rsm8CC&R's do not allow us to park in visible sight of street. Our side yard is not large enough so we keep it in the garage (barely). Such is life in So. California.
Only in the new communities who want the cookie cutter houses to look exactly alike (not slamming you, just stating the truth).
Where I live, we park our trailer in plain site in our driveway. If you have a motorhome, you can leave it on the street as long as you keep the gutter/street area clean. Only ordinance is no unhooked trailers in the street. That's one of the reasons we bought our house here vs. the next city over. I'm not paying extra to store my trailer when I have a four car driveway.
Used to keep the PU in the driveway, but the new HB is to big for the drive. So its kept at the storage place around the way. I like it there, even though it cost me $69 every month. They have 24 hour security and I can get to it whenever I need to, even at 3am if I want!
Our town has one of those RV laws to. It says that you can't have any trailer of any type parked on the street. It can only be parked in an "APPROVED" driveway (they accually check out your driveway). First offence is a warning, second is $1000 fine, third is $1500 plus $100 a day until its moved. Crazy huh! :screwy:
Quote from: dpomroyOur town has one of those RV laws to. It says that you can't have any trailer of any type parked on the street. It can only be parked in an "APPROVED" driveway (they accually check out your driveway). First offence is a warning, second is $1000 fine, third is $1500 plus $100 a day until its moved. Crazy huh! :screwy:
Unbelievable restriction of your freedom. Did the people in your community forget that this is America and that many have lost their lives for freedom? How can communities let this sort of thing happen? People everywhere need to be vigilent to guard against even the smallest erosion of our freedoms.
-Speak
Our Home Owners Association wont allow campers, boats, or non running cars to be parked in our driveway or on the street. Our PU just fits in the garage with about 12 inches to spare. I dont want to spend $120.00 a month for a storage space.........
Our city ordinance says you can not have an RV or boat parked past the front corner of your house. Fortunately we have a concrete patio that doubles as our popup parking stop. Actually doubles is incorrect, it is not longer a patio.
The cool thing about that is we open the back door and step into the popup to loan/unload.
Sherry
The town code still allows RVs,trailers,boats to be stored on your own property. Has to be behind the front of the house. We are still 50% rural. City types haven't taken over yet. I do have 200 acres of orchard across the road that now has a development rights easement which means no development for a while.
CC&Rs say we can only have the RV's parked for 24 hours in the driveway. The law is 72 hours on the street. And, believe me...the cops are called all the time on those of us with RVs! I think the people who call are just spoil-sports! So, in my community, we all pay for storage.
Lisa
Quote from: BootheBunchCC&Rs say we can only have the RV's parked for 24 hours in the driveway. The law is 72 hours on the street. And, believe me...the cops are called all the time on those of us with RVs! I think the people who call are just spoil-sports! So, in my community, we all pay for storage.
Lisa
Feel for all of you. I live in a small town in Maine. I park my Viking anywhere I please on my own land. Even in the front yard on occasion when the need arises.
Here in Omaha the City Code says you can park a Rv or boat on a hard surface if the Rv or boat is less than 25 Feet. Can be a driveway or patio just as long as it is hard surfaced and well taken care of as not to become an eyesore.
Wow, you guys have it hard. We live in Upstate NY (80 miles from Canada border) and we can park anywhere we want. No rules telling us where to park, or no one telling us how to park, etc.
I do feel for the people who live in townhouses and cities that have to store your pop-ups. What it must be like to not just be able to walk out the back door in your bare feet and jump in your pop up is gotta suck.
Only draw back living where we do, the farmer likes to spread liquid manuer in the lot next door and the inside of our pop-up get's smelly for a bit too - UGGGHHHHH!!
Quote from: angelsmom10jpreiserLegally and what you do are sometimes 2 different things. So I d rather not say. We have had too many people called for other things.
Our neighbor behind us has called the Board of Health (4-5 times a year) because we have 5 dogs, and recently the police because our small car hangs over the sidewalk because we keep the camper in the driveway and put the small car in the driveway as we cannot leave a car parked on the street for more than 48hrs or it will be ticketed and towed. I m sure the camper will be next on her hit list.
Since I don't live in city limits I can park it anywhere I want.
I HATE HOA's. I don't want anybody to tell me where I have to put my trash can or what I can and cannot do to my yard.
I am very picky about my yard to the point my neighbors think I have OCD. But if I want to do something I don't want to have to ask permission from anyone. I own my house outright and I want to do whatever I want, when I want.