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AGENDA
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE
AD HOC COMMITTEE
La Quinta City Hall Session Room
78-495 Calle Tampico
January 29, 1997
7:00 P.M.
I. CALL TO ORDER
A. Roll Call
II. PUBLIC COMMENT
III. BUSINESS ITEMS
A. Discussion regarding the City Attorney's opinion on CC & R's and different
zones
B. Discussion regarding the storage location of Recreational Vehicles
C. Discussion regarding the landscaping and/or screening of Recreational Vehicles
IV. ADJOURNMENT
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE AD HOC COMMITTEE
MINUTES
JANUARY 16, 1997
I. CALL TO ORDER
UNAPPROVED
The Recreational Vehicle Ad Hoc Committee meeting was called to order at 7:00 p.m. in
the La Quinta Civic Center Study Session Room.
ROLL CALL:
MEMBERS PRESENT:
MEMBERS ABSENT:
STAFF PRESENT:
Tom Kirk
Steve Robbins
Pete Platamone
Bill Simmons
Ronald Klinginsmith
Denver Ammerman
Cal Hutcheson
Dan Corey
A.C. Moore
Robert Burt
Mike Seems
Barbara Irwin
Tom Hartung, Building & Safety Director
Jerry Herman, Community Development Director
Director Herman briefly explained Brown Act provisions.
II. PUBLIC COMMENT
Keith Sellars spoke and voiced concerns opposed to restricting RV's in the Cove area. He
encouraged members of the committee to visit the Cove area so they could see that RV
storage is not creating a problem. Questioned the purpose of the Ordinance.
III. BUSINESS ITEMS
The Committee discussed the storage of RV's and reached a consensus on the following
items:
1. The definition of RV shall be all trailers, any vehicle placed on a trailer such as a
boat, water craft, or other vehicle; motor homes, campers, 5`h wheelers, and camper
shells that extend more than 12" above the roof of the pickup on which it is located.
(Vans are not to be included in the definition).
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2. No RV shall be parked or stored for more than 72 hours at any street location or
combination of street locations within the City.
3. Electric service may be run to an RV while it is legally parked on the street.
4. No water or sewer may be run to any RV at any location except for maintenance
service purposes.
5. No generator may be used in any RV, at any location, except for servicing or during
power outages.
6. Habitation of any RV is not to exceed 72 hours at any location.
Staff was asked to bring the following information to the next meeting:
1. Does La Quinta have a maximum curb cut?
2. Is it feasible/legal for the City to adopt an ordinance that would in effect enforce
existing CC&R's for areas with public streets?
3. Can there be different restrictions for different zones?
IV. ADJOURNMENT
The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, January 29, 1997 at 7:00 p.m.
The meeting adjourned at 9:00 p.m.
Jerry Herman, Director
Community Development
Tom Hartung, Director
Building & Safety
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MEMORANDUM
TO: JERRY HERMAN, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
FROM: DAWN HONEYWELL, CITY ATTORNEY
DATE: JANUARY 29, 1997
SUBJECT: QUESTIONS RAISED BY THE RECREATIONAL VEHICLE AD HOC
COMMITTEE
In response to your memo dated January 22, 1997, the following are my initial thoughts on the
questions presented. A more in-depth response would require specific research and additional time.
Due to constitutional equal protection requirements, the City must have a rational basis for
adopting different regulations within the same planning zone. It is difficult to imagine what
the rational basis would be that would allow completely different requirements in each
subdivision tract throughout the City even though for zoning purposes they are considered
the same.
Further, the administrative burden of enforcing an unending number of different regulations
would be extremely difficult to justify. CC&R's are for the purpose of private party
agreement and control of land uses and do not need to take into account the equal protection
concerns that the City is mandated to consider.
2. The City may create different RV zoning regulations for different zoned areas in the City as
long as some rational basis for the distinction is provided for in the record. The City may
also create overlay zones or specific plans with different regulations, if the rational basis is
established.
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City of Baldwin Park - Code of Ordinances
FACTORY -BUILT HOUSING. A unit which is either wholly or mainly manufactured
at an off -site location and is assembled on -site. FACTOHOUSINGHOUSING does not inude
vehicle. cl a mobile home, mobile accessory building or structure, or an automobile trailer or recreational
VEHICLE or MOTOR VEHICLE. These terms shall mean and include motor vehicles
as defined in this section, motor -driven cycles, motor trucks, passenger vehicles, recreational
vehicles, station wagons, trucks, tractors, and vehicles, as these phrases are defined in s the
Vehicle Code of the state, and all similar types of vehicles.
(A) No person shall store, park or maintain any boat, trailer, camper shell or
recreational vehicle, or parts thereof, in any required front yard area on any R-1 zoned lot. The
boat, trailer, camper shell or recreational vehicle, or parts thereof, may be stored or parked in a
side yard provided that a lawfully installed and permanently maintained wall or fence six feet in
height screens such boat, trailer, camper shell or recreational vehicle, or parts thereof, from
abutting property and from the public right of way.
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