Calgary looking at rule change for driveway parking of campers, RVs – Calgary | 24CA News
A proposed bylaw change could make it simpler for Calgary campers to retailer their motorhome or journey trailer in the course of the summer time months.
On Wednesday, the town’s Community Development Committee will debate the proposed modifications that may enable Calgarians to park their motorhomes, journey trailers, campers and RVs on residential driveways from May by means of to October.
Currently, RVs are solely allowed to be parked in residential driveways in Calgary for 36 hours.
City administration famous in its report on the proposed modifications that Calgary’s present guidelines round residential parking for RVs are “amongst the most restrictive” and are difficult to implement.
“We know that Calgarians love to get out camping. We know that they love their recreational vehicles, and we’ve got great access to it in and around Calgary,” Ward 11 Coun. Kourtney Penner stated. “If this makes life a little easier, then it’s a win.”
Although the proposed modifications would enable for seasonal parking on residential driveways, an RV would solely have the ability to be parked whether it is being actively loaded or unloaded outdoors that May to October timeframe.
The proposal additionally consists of measures to stop obstruction of sidewalks or sightlines on corners, with necessities for RVs in residential driveways to be parked at the least 0.6 metres away from the sidewalk.
A graphic displaying the proposed necessities for parking an RV in a residential driveway in Calgary.
Source: City of Calgary
The proposed modification would additionally allow an RV registered outdoors of Calgary to park on a public road if the adjoining property proprietor provides consent.
Sam Frame with the Calgary Wild Rose RV Club advised Global News the proposed modifications are welcomed, and would save RV house owners each money and time in terms of storage in the summertime months.
He stated he’s heard from members of the membership that the present guidelines in Calgary are a limitation.
“They have to pack up on Sunday, put everything into containers, come to their home, drop those containers off and then take the RV out to a storage facility,” Frame advised Global News. “It would be more convenient for them if they could keep that inside their RV, they’d maybe use them more because they’re not having to go through this process of picking and storing and organizing.”
The proposal comes after public engagement with greater than 10,000 Calgarians earlier this 12 months, in addition to a assessment of municipal bylaws in communities throughout Alberta and Western Canada.
Frame stated whereas the rule change could be helpful for RV house owners, he added that these house owners should even be aware of their neighbours.
“You have to be mindful of the type of RV that’s on your driveway. We don’t want the Clampetts with a ratty tatty blue tarp stretched over top of it aggravating the neighbours,” Frame stated. “As long as your neighbours are comfortable with you having it there, I’m good with it.”
City administration stated it’s conscious of these considerations, and famous suggestions from a number of Calgarians urged some fear the proposed modifications “negatively affecting community aesthetics, increasing in use of street parking, and obstructing the view.”
The metropolis stated it is usually doable that some native RV storage companies could also be “negatively affected,” however the impression would depend upon a number of components like the scale of an RV, storage payment choices, and size of the driveway.
Penner stated public suggestions would assist information any future modifications to the bylaw.
“Not everyone’s going to be in favor of the changes. We know that,” she stated. “I think we’ll hear some input and feedback and we may have to revise the bylaw as time goes on.”
If the proposal is permitted on Wednesday, it will likely be dropped at the July 4 metropolis council assembly as a matter of pressing business.
Pending approval from metropolis council as an entire, the rule change might be in impact for this 12 months’s tenting season.
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