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District of North Van to crack down on parked RVs
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BRENT RICHTER
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The District of North Vancouver is preparing to crack down on people who park large recreational vehicles on public streets.
The municipality has been facing growing calls from property owners, especially around Lloyd Avanue and Mackay Creek, to enforce parking and street bylaws that would force RVs owners to move their vehicles elsewhere. When staff surveyed the streets earlier in the year, they found 76 such vehicles. A more recent scan found that number dropped to 59, but staff say the issue is trending worse, not better, over a longer timeframe, and there have been mounting complaints about safety, sanitation and public disorder. It’s a difficult issue, staff acknowledged at its June 9 meeting, as RVs could be parked on the street for highly disparate reasons – being stored empty by local residents, being used as provisional housing by seasonal or temporary workers, or being used as permanent homes by people who truly can’t afford anywhere else to be. At the meeting, district council debated numerous options ranging from more education and homelessness outreach to putting stricter parking limits on known hotspots, and ticketing and towing. “The reality is, we kind of need to do all four.… I don’t think that maintaining the current status quo on this is Continued on A23
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