Vanlife has explosive in recent years, especially during the pandemic. Millennials and Gen Z flock to trucks, buses, and ambulances after being priced out of housing due to rising housing costs. When things slowly return to normal, some found that life that way doesn’t quite suit them. But in some parts of the country, vanlifers never give up. Federation of San Diego-Tribune reported that vanlifers at the Port of San Diego have become a nuisance to both port officials and local residents. Pthe arking rules are being changed to remove them.
San Diego’s Shoreline Park has attracted a number of vanlifers over the past few years. The park is attractive because of its views of San Diego Bay and free 24-hour parking at nearby Shelter Island. Most important, It’safe. “This is the safest place where you can go to sleep and not have to worry about someone breaking into your car,” said one vanlife rider. tell meHe Alliance-Tribune. He had come down from Washington because the weather was warmer than in Southern California. While the people living in these cars may feel like they are free to do and relax however they want, they have caused headaches for officials and locals.
People living in the community have complained to the Port of San Diego about vanlifers with serious and valid problems. Have human waste remains in a lot, smoke from the exhaust of idling trucks, and the smell of weed smoke. Worse yet, the Port has to cover the cost of the hazardous waste disposal team to clean up. Maintenance and landscaping also have a hard time, because they often have to work around vandals or deal with them when they’re angry, or worse. It’s like dealing with hidden pockets of poop that stick to them as they work. “My friends, they are pruning their shrubs periodically and they have droppings (on them) because it sticks to the bushes,” explain a port official.
These regulations won’t last much longer when the Port adopts new parking regulations on April 11. Under the new regulations, the port commissioners have redefined the definition for large vehicles to include includes any vehicle longer than 20 feet, taller than 7.5, and more than seven feet wide. Parking hours have also been changed, removing 24 hours Parking is free as well as asking vehicles to park only within the fence. The Port’s Customer Experience Manager Ken Wallis speak The new rules will significantly restrict vanlifer. On April 7, he counted no less than 53 vandals at the lots that would violate the new rules.
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While residents and business owners in the area praised the new rules, others took issue with them. Some, who group the vanlfers in with those who are homeless and living in their vehicles, said the commission should be sympathetic to those living situations. “After hearing members of the community speak and hearing the proposed recommendations regarding oversize vehicle parking within the port, it’s clear to me that this is less about a general parking problem and more about a homeless-people-living-in-their-vehicle problem,” a person who has speak, have parents live out of their car. However, the committee said it took into account the needs of those people when making the decision but the situation at the park got out of hand. New rules are expected to go into effect on May 12.
