{"id":9800,"date":"2011-03-08T20:12:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T04:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=9800"},"modified":"2011-03-08T20:50:47","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T04:50:47","slug":"city-council-bans-the-sea-wall-motorhomeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=9800","title":{"rendered":"City Council Bans The Sea Wall Motorhomeless"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Scenes like this will be a thing of the past this summer thanks to the Carlsbadistan<\/em> City Council. Tonight (March 8, 2011) they approved new parking regulations for the west side of Carlsbad Boulevard that will see the end of the summer motorhomeless invasion and we can’t thank them enough.<\/p>\n

The new parking restriction prohibits \u201coversized vehicles\u201d from parking on the west side of Carlsbad Boulevard, between Redwood and Cherry avenues, between Memorial Day and Labor Day.<\/p>\n

The new ordinance applies to vehicles that exceed any one of the following three criteria:
\n7-foot height, including any object fixed to the vehicle\u2019s roof;
\n7-foot width, including any accessory attached to the sides, but excluding mirrors;
\n22-foot length, including any attached accessory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Our prayers have been answered. Follow the jump for all the details.Summer parking restrictions approved for oversized vehicles
\nRecreational vehicles and other oversized vehicles will no longer be allowed to park on Carlsbad Boulevard near downtown during the summer, based on a new ordinance introduced at Tuesday\u2019s Carlsbad City Council meeting.<\/p>\n

The new parking restriction prohibits \u201coversized vehicles\u201d from parking on the west side of Carlsbad Boulevard, between Redwood and Cherry avenues, between Memorial Day and Labor Day.<\/p>\n

The new ordinance applies to vehicles that exceed any one of the following three criteria:
\n7-foot height, including any object fixed to the vehicle\u2019s roof;
\n7-foot width, including any accessory attached to the sides, but excluding mirrors;
\n22-foot length, including any attached accessory.<\/p>\n

Residents have for years complained that the large vehicles arrive early and stay all day, monopolizing prime parking spaces along busy Carlsbad Boulevard and blocking ocean views. There have also been complaints about RV owners spreading out and blocking the sidewalk, a busy location for walkers and joggers.<\/p>\n

The City Council has explored many options to limit the parking of such large vehicles on the coast highway and, on June 15, 2010, directed staff to develop an ordinance that would limit oversized vehicles during the busy summer months just on this stretch of the boulevard.<\/p>\n

Carlsbad Police Lt. Marc Reno said the Police Department wanted the restrictions to be clearly understandable.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom a law-enforcement standpoint, we wanted to make it clear to the public what they could do, and make sure the law was enforceable,\u201d Reno said.<\/p>\n

The new limits do not apply to vehicles parked south of Tamarack avenue on Carlsbad Boulevard, another popular spot.<\/p>\n

The new restrictions do not alter other parking time limits on Carlsbad Boulevard. Vehicles are prohibited from parking between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m., or between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. daily, depending on location. Those restrictions remain in effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scenes like this will be a thing of the past this summer thanks to the Carlsbadistan City Council. Tonight (March 8, 2011) they approved new parking regulations for the west side of Carlsbad Boulevard that will see the end of the summer motorhomeless invasion and we can’t thank them enough. The new parking restriction prohibits […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9800"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9800"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9806,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9800\/revisions\/9806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}