Re: [A/S] Parking/living off the land?!?

[Daisy Welch <jtdjtd@xxxxxxxx>]

As a general rule, you need to start at the most local level, which 
might be a neighborhood homeowners association which will have rules 
about RV's.  Then you need to work your way up through village, 
town/city, county levels to see what their rules are. And if you don't 
own the property, you need to know what the rules are of the BLM, or 
what ever agency owns it.

 In many places, there are zoning or land use rules that will prohibit 
living in an RV for any length of time, or perhaps allow only a limited 
length of time.

The perception that people who live in trailers are trash and thus lower 
the property values around them is mostly responsible for these laws, 
but there are also health concerns about waste disposal that make these 
rules get passed.

Note also that many places will have laws against even storing your RV 
on your property.

And yes, even on your own property that you pay taxes on !

You will find that the further away from civilization you get the less 
rules there are.

Here's a nice story I heard, a family moved into a horse community and 
then started to demand that people pick up horse poop in the dirt riding 
trails !

Grrr.

Daisy (22 years as Zoning Commission chair in Taxachusetts)