San Jose's $3.3 Million OLIVE Program Targets RV Street Parking for Cleaner Streets and Neighborhood Relief (Hoodline 1/12/25)

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San Jose's $3.3 Million OLIVE Program Targets RV Street Parking for Cleaner Streets and Neighborhood Relief (Hoodline 1/12/25): https://hoodline.com/2025/01/san-jose-s-3-3-million-olive-program-targets-rv-street-parking-for-cleaner-streets-and-neighborhood-relief/

 

San Jose has rolled out a new measure to manage the city's growing concern with RV street parking.

Launching this week, the city's $3.3 million Oversized and Lived-In Vehicle Enforcement (OLIVE) program aims to temporarily clear RVs from 30 designated areas for street cleaning efforts.

The program started on Chynoweth Avenue, targeting the 19 lived-in vehicles. According to SFGate, Boynton Avenue is next up for temporary RV bans.

Announced at a recent press conference, Mayor Matt Mahan emphasized the need for neighborhood and environmental relief.

"The neighbors and small business owners and people coming to the parks in these areas deserve some relief," he said, according to an interview with SFGate. Designed to be a temporary measure, the city plans to identify up to 10 sites where lived-in vehicles will face a permanent ban after the pilot phase.

Signs will warn dwellers of the impending tow, with enforcement commencing one to two weeks later.

With approximately 1,000 lived-in vehicles scattered throughout San Jose, the city is pressured to offer alternative places for this displaced population.

The Berryessa safe parking site, poised to open next month, will accommodate up to 85 vehicles.

However, as San Jose Spotlight learned from homeless advocate Gail Osmer, "It is really deplorable when our city is abating RV unhoused folks to move with no place to go." Osmer argued for the need for each council district to have a safe RV site, as reported by SFGate.

This initiative is part of San Jose's plan to create 1,500 temporary beds for homeless residents within 18 months.

This plan encompasses expanding tiny home villages and hotel conversions into temporary housing.

Having put RVs near schools and parks in the city's crosshairs, the city aims to crack down on 30 sites popular among RV dwellers, as Paul Peterson, who has been living in an RV, told NBC Bay Area, "You know, we're people too. We're just trying to survive."

Mayor Mahan has pointed out the forthcoming Berryessa parking site as part of the city's effort to ameliorate the plight of these streetside residents. Despite recognizing the imperfect nature of current strategies, the Mayor implied the potential for long-term RV living to exist in more conventional RV parks or on private property. The second and largest safe parking site near the San Jose Flea Market is expected to open later this year. Still, as Mahan articulated to NBC Bay Area, "I don't have 1,000 parking spaces today where you can just go take your RV with utility hookups. Just don't. But we can't continue to be complacent and let this problem go."

 

 

 

 

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