RV Parking - Again!

MAXIMUM OF 24 hours. To load or unload only.

For us -- 4 hours

Ours reads......

"RVs - Upon a written request, RV's which need to be loaded or unloaded may remain within the grounds for a maximum of 24 hours and may not be parked in a carport, handicap or assigned parking space. An Association PERMIT shall be placed on the front windshield while on the premises "

Ann

Thanks everybody. From your responses here and my research on HOATalk, it sure looks like the norm is 24 hours. Ed's, Ann's, and Tim's situations seem very interesting. Depending on how the community streets and driveways are configured, I can't imagine having an RV on the street for 5 days. Ugh! Our 48 hours looks, as the atty wrote, VERY reasonable, and in my words VERY lenient. This issue of parking RVs is our last sticking point. We're ready to take the re-written CC&R to the community. I guess we'll see what the community thinks about 48 hours. BTW, I'm a former President of the HOA and presently the Chair of the Document Review Cmte

Good luck to all the board and committee members out there. These are important jobs and your dedication and willingness to serve are commendable.

I agree, Donna. 5 days is waaaaay too long and the only justification I could see for that is if a guest is visiting a resident. Even at that, though, I think the guest should park in a nearby RV park.

I actually think 48 hours is waaaaay too long also, but the board hasn't bought my rationale -- maybe because one of the influential board members has an RV, which he uses several weekends in the summer. You may remember from some of my earlier posts that we are a community of 55+ and so I guess I can buy that we may work more slowly than a younger population, therefore needing two days to prepare the RV and load/unload it. But that's a difficult position, if you ask me. Anyone who is using an RV is more than likely pretty fit and mobile.

ST. Just a couple of questions -- Can the RV's park at curbside of the owner's home for 48 hours to load and unload? Or must they remain on the RV pads? Where are the RV pads in relation to the homes? Are the homes in the area stick-built or are they largely mobile homes? Is it a community where owners spend winters or are most owners year-round? I appreciate your response and I'm trying to visualize your community and compare it to my community. Thanks, Marianne

ST. Just a couple of questions -- Can the RV's park at curbside of the owner's home for 48 hours to load and unload? Or must they remain on the RV pads? Where are the RV pads in relation to the homes? Are the homes in the area stick-built or are they largely mobile homes? Is it a community where owners spend winters or are most owners year-round? I appreciate your response and I'm trying to visualize your community and compare it to my community. Thanks, Marianne

RV's can be parked curbside; indeed, most driveways only have about 25-30' of asphalt/concrete and the larger RV's, of course, must use the road to load and unload--only. Sometimes there is room for a larger RV to diagonally park the wheels on the paved surface and overhang a grassy area and that is permissible. No repairs, occupying, selling etc although it is "winked" that RV's are sometimes used as short-term guest quarters. I might add that all utilities are on pedestals on each property because the community used to be an RV resort park and has almost completely transitioned to a manufactured/mobile park senior community. So, it is easy to "hook up" an RV at the site, though specifically forbidden by our CCR's to occupy. We still have a small number of vacant homesites set up as RV pads scattered throughout the community and, of course, these can be used as temporary or permanent dwellings. Homes are mobile trailers with roofovers and manufactured homes in approximately 50/50 proportion. "Stick-built" homes are not permitted. It is largely a snowbird community with 75% of residents living "up north" for most of the year.