Cricketdaddy
Well-known member
I received a heads up yesterday from the FMCA urging me to attend a council meeting tonight in our L.A. County town of Glendora, where the planning commission and city council have decided that RVs of all sorts are eyesores and need to be eliminated from our own backyards and driveways! The proposed zoning change does allow for some minor exceptions but basically all MH owners in our lovely little community would be forced to find expensive and inconvenient storage.
Here's the part that gets me -- one of the requirements for those few citizens whose yards are large enough to skirt the ordinance is that an RV be hidden by a six-foot solid fence and/or a screen blocking its view through wrought iron gates. How is a six-foot fence or screen going to relieve my neighbors from the offense of my brand new $100,000, 12-foot-tall eyesore?!!
This is a case of government intrusion to nobody's advantage at a severe penalty to those of us who bought our homes BECAUSE they had room to park our RVs.
Anybody else run across this problem elsewhere?
For details, go here: http://www.ci.glendora.ca.us/news/rvstaffreport.pdf
Here's the part that gets me -- one of the requirements for those few citizens whose yards are large enough to skirt the ordinance is that an RV be hidden by a six-foot solid fence and/or a screen blocking its view through wrought iron gates. How is a six-foot fence or screen going to relieve my neighbors from the offense of my brand new $100,000, 12-foot-tall eyesore?!!
This is a case of government intrusion to nobody's advantage at a severe penalty to those of us who bought our homes BECAUSE they had room to park our RVs.
Anybody else run across this problem elsewhere?
For details, go here: http://www.ci.glendora.ca.us/news/rvstaffreport.pdf