Bellingham is searching for a supervised space the place individuals who stay of their automobiles and RVs can keep, and in addition is asking the Metropolis Council to think about new restrictions on parking, particularly close to faculties and different locations the place kids are current.
Mayor Seth Fleetwood proposed the measures throughout a Metropolis Council committee session Monday afternoon.
“This has been a vexxing problem for fairly a while,” Fleetwood instructed the council.
“I’ve directed authorized employees to organize in your consideration an ordinance,” he mentioned.
Fleetwood advised that such an measure would outlaw RV parking close to faculties and organizations such because the Boys and Women Golf equipment of Bellingham.
Along with the brand new parking limits, Bellingham shall be issuing a “request for proposals” to discover a place the place automobiles and RVs can park safely, and a company to oversee and function that website.
An try to create such a secure house and discover an operator failed in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, Fleetwood mentioned.
Court docket rulings have held that dwelling in a automobile or RV just isn’t in opposition to the legislation. However many cities, together with Bellingham, restrict the period of time that automobiles and RVs can park in a single place to 72 hours.
Bellingham has been fighting RV parking in neighborhoods for a number of years, and several other places have precipitated issues, officers mentioned — together with a website on Moore Road close to Carl Cozier Elementary Faculty and the Arne Hanna Aquatic Heart.
