The recent settlement in a class action lawsuit against the City of San Diego and attorneys representing people who live in their cars and RV’s may have solved one problem and prolonged another.
The settlement allows for living in a vehicle if people have nowhere else to go.
That will please those like a man who is among RV owners in the Mission Bay area who has been ticketed daily by police and who told CBS 8
“It’s been my home for two months….my only other option with the price of everything with rent is this RV.”
But this settlement that forces the city not to enforce the overnight parking ordinance has some who live in neighborhoods and those who spend time at Mission Bay swimming or picnicking and finding parking spaces, complaining about what has happened.
As one reader told the Union Tribune recently, “I’ve been staying at the Mission Bay RV Resort right next to the De Anza Bay Drive parking lot and there are countless RVs illegally parked overnight in this public lot and these vehicles are not following basic park rules, such as no dumping or littering.”
Anyone who has driven around Mission Bay in recent times has probably seen the increase in the number of RVs and other vehicles parked all over.
So while this legal settlement has helped partially solve the homeless situation for some people, it has made some other people around Mission Bay and elsewhere in the city who worry about the impact on where they live.
(Photo reporting partner 10News)