The San Diego Police Department continue their crackdown on people living in cars and RVs in San Diego beach areas.
“We get hundreds of complaints each month about Mission Bay, Robb Field and other beach communities. When you have 100 motor homes that don’t move, it’s a de facto RV parking lot with no regulations, that’s not a good situation for anybody,” SDPD Captain Steve Shebloski told NBC 7 in July.
Between July 2 – 25, SDPD has issued 189 oversize-vehicle citations and 519 parking tickets.
The ordinance prevents oversized vehicles such as RVs and non-motorized trailers 20 feet long or 7 feet high from parking along certain areas in the City of San Diego between 2-6 a.m. It can be enforced anytime that such vehicles are within 50 feet of an intersection.
Before ticketing SDPD is giving people living in their vehicles the option to go to one of the city’s sponsored parking lots, including H Barracks that has bathrooms, mental health services and a homeless outreach program.
Some people living in their vehicles that NBC 7 spoke with aren’t satisfied with the options and want the ability to camp in a lot of their choice.
“I feel like I’m being rounded about and I’m being forced to go somewhere that I don’t want to go,” Laura Gillespie said.
Before the crackdown began city staff conducted about a month of outreach warning people living in large vehicles and RVs that this was coming.
San Diego Police said that if a violator doesn’t respond to a citation, then it can be referred to collections, which could impact their vehicle registration.