Looking at that photo,there appears to be a line marking where the drive lane/shoulder start & end, and the parked cars & RV's appear to be well off the driving lane. What has me wondering is "why" that jogger is running in what appears to be the actual roadway. There is plenty of room off the roadway. Geesh, don't we have enuff nit-picky laws to deal with already. I could understand if the vehicles (any type) were in disrepair, non functional that they not be allowed to park there.
I guess thats why I like to live in the country and hate to go into the city, too many "better than you busy bodies with nothing better to do than find something to complain about", and yikes now they are sprawling out into the country.
OK, I feel better now, off mysoapbox
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2Rovers wrote: I can understand their concerns. It's a small street (paid for by taxpayers) and from the pic appears to be very congested. I am not an advocate of people parking their private vehicles on public streets and using it as their personal parking space. We always parked our vehicles in our driveways, garage or stored them in a storage facility.
I must say, I second that.
The pic in the article seems to be from a different area than Myrtle Road. HERE is a view of the road with the 'suspect' RV.
Granted, that pic showing all the campers is a bit too much, but who knows where that was taken.......maybe on the side of a park (or other main attraction) that does not have designated RV parking.
Be careful on how the media portrays things......
Jeff
If you disable the road labels, you can clearly see that the motorhome is not even in the street.
The story made it sound like this is a very congested street. It's not. It's just a few busy bodies who are jealous because they don't have a nice RV to vacation in.
On a side note, I wouldn't let my 5 year old ride her bike in the street. Not without my VERY close supervision.
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"They're the type of people who move in at the end of an airport runway and say, 'Close the airport,'
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I know these people.
We have some of those people in our neighborhood. They moved out here and built houses out here on 5 acre lots and are complaining about a small airport that has been here longer then 20 years! The select few have drawing on signs, on the road showing air planes crashing into houses. None here have ever done this!!
I am so glad we also live in the country. We park our 5th wheel beside our house! As many neighbors do.
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About 20 years ago, the Columbus (GA) Council was discussing various street parking issues. City Manager Franklyn Lambert told the Council: "Streets are for driving, not for parking." He's probably right. They're laid out so you can get from one place to another. Parking would be a secondary benefit that could easily fall by the wayside in favor of the primary purpose. It's certainly safer to eliminate street parking. There are fewer surprises when people or other vehicles are not popping out of nowhere.
David
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Washington Post article: wrote: Montgomery officials are interested in public safety but also the county's image as the population nears 1 million.
I used to live in Montgomery County - emphasis on "used to". Trust me this is purely an "image" thing - has nothing to do with safety.
I left for just the above reason - the county has become "liberal uppity". You have to fit the "desired image". If you don't fit into the "moneyed" genre, you aren't welcome. While I don't work at a trade, it burns me that the county would prohibit the self employed plumber from parking his vehicle at his home, etc. While you could say, "park it in the driveway" for some of these, there are a lot of homes in the area that aren't capable of having a driveway, the homes are too close together. Even those that aren't, the older homes were built in an era where families only had one car...not 3 cars, two motorcycles, a boat and an RV. If you are lucky, you've got a driveway for one car, let alone all of the above. The houses in my old neighborhood were too close together to get an RV into the back yard, even it the backyard were big enough to park it. Where else are you going to put them? Land is non existent in the Washington area...they keep stacking people up in high rises to squeeze more in...then they moan and groan when those people have "things".
Can you tell that I don't think much of Montgomery County's elitist local government?
I'm extremely fortunate. Found 106 acres in the middle of nowhere PA...low taxes, no neighbors and a "do what you want as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else" attitude. So weary of people deciding what I want and what's good for me without asking
Okay...done with my rant now.
Don
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If you disable the road labels, you can clearly see that the motorhome is not even in the street.
Looks like it's in the street from this angle. Also, it's parked across the street from a driveway which surely has to aggravate those backing out of that driveway.
No matter how (or where)you cut it streets are paid for by public dollars. It has already been said, and seems obvious, that if parking is provided it is secondary to the purpose of the road. It seems equally obvious that the exploitation of public parking opportunities by large vehicles can interfere with the purpose of the road and negatively impact the environment of the neighbourhood. Where this happens the use of public dollars to support long-term parking for recreational vehicles on city or town streets is in serious conflict and needs to be rationalized. The logical outcome is regulation.
Elitist? - no - just plain common sense.
As for tourism? - good point - if there is a tourism objective in the area that caters to larger RV's then obviously part of any local tourism strategy needs to satisfactorily address the short-term parking needs of these larger vehicles - to the satisfaction of the community at large.
Jay
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As I and Sasha have stated before, the Washington DC Metro area does not like RVs.
There are hardly any campgrounds, there are hardly any storage facilities, and the storage facilities they do have are either completely booked solid, or extremely high prices.
The people on that street need to get a grip. And I'm sure the RV cost more than some of those houses. Bringing down the neighborhood, yeah right. They people on that street are jealous of the RVer. And moving - that area was hit just as hard as others in the nation, not easy to move anymore.
But read the comments afterwards, at least they are pretty funny.
I don't often read the Washington Post, I get the news elsewhere and the articles seem so slanted in one direction that I do not feel they are objective.
The DC metro area in general is RV-Hostile, no question
Before we sold our home last year, we were the only couple with an RV rig in a community of 6000 homes. We kept it off site, but man you could see folks eyes rolling soon as we pulled up to load or unload from a trip. RVs=Trash People is the mindset.
As far as the article, it was poorly written. On one hand, it talks about public street restrictions, then meanders off to highlight the fellow with his own private pad on his property, 2 completely different issues, nothing to do with each other, that the article makes no point about.
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