RV ordinance

Questioned the year-long delay on the 10th and Ojai Road construction, criticized taxes and city spending, and said the RV ordinance outlaws work trucks and would cost families $2,400-3,600 a year in storage.

A 75-year resident, said he and his retired husband received a notice after 23 years of legally parking their motor home at home; asked for consideration given their fixed income.

Asked the council to review the ordinance, apply enforcement consistently citywide, consider a grace period, and hold public forums.

Spoke for her widowed mother, whose travel trailer has been in her driveway since 2010 without any citation; off-site storage would be a real financial hardship.

A former RV advisory committee member, said the 2006-07 committee's common-sense, complaint-driven recommendations never made it into the ordinance and questioned what prompted the enforcement letter.

Asked the council to reopen the ordinance and pause violation notices while it's reviewed; noted his public records request returned just one document — a 2007 proposal allowing one RV per driveway.

Said the city's own edited 2007 document made sense and asked that the ordinance be modernized with criteria-based rules, and that warning letters be put on hold.

Said his trailer fits entirely in the driveway, serves as emergency equipment, and asked why enforcement seems targeted at certain streets like Santa Paula Street; supported Chavez's study session request.

A lifelong resident, asked why families can't keep a motor home in their own driveway and wondered about rumors linking the enforcement push to new storage facilities.

On a limited income, said she'd either pay for storage or go without food; her generator-powered motor home is her backup during outages.

A lifelong resident living on savings after early retirement, said she can't afford storage and uses her RV for emergency supplies for a child in a wheelchair.

Came to support the RV community, saying enforcement takes away family memories and emergency uses of trailers for elders.

Looked up storage for his 35-foot trailer: $205 a month not in his budget; also warned about inexperienced drivers causing accidents at storage lots.

By Zoom, asked the council to add the RV ordinance to the agenda and pause enforcement until it's settled; bought her home for the big driveway.

A Marine Corps veteran, called his RV his 'plan B' for wildfire and earthquake evacuations and said storage defeats preparedness; asked for reasonable rules, not a ban.

Said her home was hit by a speeding car in April after nine months of unheeded traffic complaints, and questioned why RV code enforcement moved faster than traffic safety fixes.