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[Joe Hogan]

LA City Council addresses RVs used as housing

LA City Council cracks down on RVs used as housing

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[mjeds]

Yeah, I work in the Gardena area and several of the streets are just lined with very old RVs. Most of them are broken and are not drivable, flat tires, damaged side bodies, etc..

A lot of them leave their drain pipes open and they drain their black and gray tanks into the sewer.

Living in an RV in Los Angeles county has always been illegal unless it’s parked on private property property and it needs to be secluded behind a gate, if it’s an open driveway with no gate then it’s illegal to use an RV as housing.

I’m living in mine in a relatives “driveway“ and we put up a 9 foot gate at the end of the driveway 1 foot back from the setback so that the driveway technically becomes the backyard and it’s legal at that point as long as the RV is not permanently attached to the house water, electric, or sewage lines.

 

[Underboss]

That crap was just starting to really get going when I left LA and moved back to NYC. It was bad enough going down to Venice beach and finding street parking, when that started it was always parking lot only.

 

[Rich W.]

A lot of them leave their drain pipes open and they drain their black and gray tanks into the sewer.

When they do that it runs into the storm drains, not the sewer, constituting a bio-hazard and making an extremely unsanitary condition; essentially the creeks and rivers become an open sewer no different than what is found in many third world countries. In a city with real management it would never be allowed to happen.

 

[mjeds]

When they do that it runs into the storm drains, not the sewer, constituting a bio-hazard and making an extremely unsanitary condition; essentially the creeks and rivers become an open sewer no different than what is found in many third world countries. In a city with real management it would never be allowed to happen.

I am aware, in this area it runs to the Rio-Hondo and/or Los Angeles River beds which are lined end to end with homeless living on the bike paths. Both Rivers dump into the Long Beach and LA/San Pedro Harbors which in turn dump to the ocean.

The area has been in "hazardous water" status for several years, fishing/swimming/water and jet skiing is not allowed due to the massive amounts of waste being dumped.

 

[AbdRahim]

Here again, people are un uninformed to some extent. It was not until I was far into adulthood that I knew that what we called the sewer was just a storm drain.

 

[mjeds]

Here again, people are un uninformed to some extent. It was not until I was far into adulthood that I knew that what we called the sewer was just a storm drain.

true, "sewers" are piped from buildings (houses/offices, etc.) the black and grey water from the sink/toilets, all of that is piped through the public sewer system to the wastewater treatment centers.

the "gutters" are nothing more than storm drains that drain to the ocean.

Most people are ignorant to the difference. and most homeless wouldn't care even if they knew the difference. paying to dump their tanks is likely something they cannot afford, in addition as I said many of these homeless RV encampments are non-functional RV's.

the ones around here have flat tires, are damaged, or in some cases burnt out and held together with tarps and plywood.

 

[Rich W.]

I am aware, in this area it runs to the Rio-Hondo and/or Los Angeles River beds which are lined end to end with homeless living on the bike paths. Both Rivers dump into the Long Beach and LA/San Pedro Harbors which in turn dump to the ocean.

The area has been in "hazardous water" status for several years, fishing/swimming/water and jet skiing is not allowed due to the massive amounts of waste being dumped.

Where I worked that would be a Haz-Mat incident. I guess they’ve given up.

 

[TheLooks]

Well, you could do it like they did up in nowhere Maine and put the storm drains into the sewer treatment facility....."point source" pollution was running rampant in the far reaches where no one lives. You can guess what happens when it rains a whole bunch.....

 

[Underboss]

Back in the 90's I had a project in Marina Del Rey and it included massive concrete footings. When we poured, it one drop of "concrete contaminant" escapes our barriers, we risked having the jobsite shut down. Meanwhile the literal crap that they are putting in the sewers has been going on about ten years now.