"A committee of Palo Alto council members tonight (Aug. 25) endorsed the idea of permitting RVs on certain streets scattered throughout the city. The Policy and Services Committee also voted to ban trailers and broken-down RVs from city streets, to add street cleanups and street sweeping and to explore a buyback program for RV dwellers transitioning to a homeless shelter."
"Councilmen Greer Stone and George Lu were in favor of a permit program for RVs on non-residential streets, but only after the city looks at commercial parking lots or church parking lots as a place for RVs to park. The committee quickly discarded the idea of paving over the Baylands Athletic Center as a place for RVs to park, because doing so would require voters to approve the removal of parkland."
A Palo Alto Policy and Services Committee endorsed permitting RVs on selected city streets and recommended banning trailers and inoperable RVs, increasing street cleanups and sweeps, and exploring a buyback program to help RV dwellers move into shelters. The recommendations will go to the full City Council before implementation. Vice Mayor Vicki Veenker opposed concentrating RVs on specific streets, preferring safe parking or housing solutions. Councilmen Greer Stone and George Lu supported a permit program contingent on evaluating commercial or church parking lots. Officials estimate about 200 people now live in RVs in Palo Alto.
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