Illegally Parked RVs Top Code Complaints in California Community
MANTECA, Calif. — Thirty-two of the 41 complaints relating to code enforcement in Manteca in the first five days of June were related to illegally parked recreational vehicles and trailers.
That’s what the city’s lone code enforcement officer Greg Baird — who describes himself as the most hated man in Manteca — told Rotarians at their noon luncheon on Thursday.
The code enforcement officer said there is a divided camp among residents. There are those who want to show off their vehicles and others who don’t want their street to look like an RV storage yard.
“No one is happy when you go out on a call” he said of the parking restrictions. That is, until you tell one party, “You can’t do that any more.” Then the person complaining is satisfied.
Nothing can be in the front yard set back - that’s usually 20 feet. Once you get beyond that 20 feet residents are allowed to have one RV on the property.
He said there is a proposed new regulation that RVs will have to have a three foot clearance from the house as well as three feet from the fence. If that goes through it will inhibit the parking of large vehicles in the side yards of homes, he noted.
The proposed ordinance may require any recreational vehicles to be parked on a paved surface eliminating storing anything on grass.
Baird said he deals chiefly with code violations and the 700 pages of rules and regulations that he has to enforce. He said that staff has now recommended the City Council hiring a second officer to monitor code violations in the city using redevelopment agency funds in the upcoming budget cycle.