2021-06-30 Joselyn Overby
Charlene Way
From:Joselyn Overby <joselynoverby@gmail.com>
Sent:Wednesday, June 30, 2021 7:02 PM
To:City Clerk
Subject:Recreational Vehicle Parking
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Good evening,
I am writing to express my opposition to your proposed code changes allowing recreational vehicle parking in front of
houses/in driveways/side yards/etc. It states that HOA's can maintain their CCR's through private means but without city
code enforcement support I believe this is going to cause much controversy between the HOA and home owners. The
reason we moved into a neighborhood with an HOA was for neighborhood esthetics. If you allow recreational vehicle
parking in front of houses this definitely takes away from the esthetics of a neighborhood and opens the door for people
to live in campers/motorhomes in front of houses, bringing with that their extra vehicles which clog up roads, block
sidewalks, mail trucks, garbage trucks etc. And by allowing recreational vehicle parking in front of houses you now
displace a vehicle that normally parks there, again clogging up streets. My mother-in-law lives in a neighborhood with no
CCR's and there are campers, trailers, etc parked every which way. Do you really want the City of Meridian to look like
this? You say this code violation comprises most of your code complaints but what do you think is going to happen when
people start parking their recreational vehicles in places not allowed, they are blocking sidewalks, or allowing people to
live in their driveways. I honestly think your calls are going to increase. We've lived here since 1998 and have known
from day one that if you have a trailer or recreational vehicle of some sort that it needs to be behind a fence. It's not
that hard. If people can pay monthly storage fees they can pay to add a gate to their fence. And, if the side yard is too
small to fit a recreational vehicle then that means the houses are already too close together and allowing a recreational
vehicle to be parked in front will add to the clustered appearance and block the view of the neighbor trying to back out
of the driveway, causing safety concerns. Again, I highly disagree with this proposal, for many reasons.
Thank you,
Todd and Joselyn Overby
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