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groovedaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-05-10 11:07 AM
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When Home Has No Place to Park
LOS ANGELES — Every day, Diane Butler and her husband park their two hand-painted R.V.’s in a lot at the edge of Venice Beach here, alongside dozens of other rickety, rusted campers from the 1970s and ’80s. During the day, she sells her artwork on the boardwalk. When the parking lot closes at sunset, she and the other R.V.-dwellers drive a quarter-mile inland to find somewhere on the street to park for the night.

Their nomadic existence might be ending, though. The Venice section of Los Angeles has become the latest California community to enact strict new regulations limiting street parking and banning R.V.’s from beach lots — regulations that could soon force Ms. Butler, 58, to leave the community where she has lived for four decades.

“They’re making it hard for people in vehicles to remain in Venice,” she said.

Southern California, with its forgiving weather, has long been a popular destination for those living in vehicles and other homeless people. And for decades, people living in R.V.’s, vans and cars have settled in Venice, the beachfront Los Angeles community once known as the “Slum by the Sea” and famous for its offbeat, artistic culture.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/us/04rv.html?th&emc=th
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-05-10 11:20 AM
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1. Can't dump your black water into the street--there's always someone
that has to ruin it. Still, they could set aside an area that has parking, a sewage disposal, dumpsters and a water spigot. Wouldn't be real expensive.
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w4rma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-05-10 12:55 PM
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2. That would be all that they need. Nothing more, really. (nt)
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