[ericbarrett]

When I was young my family lived in an unincorporated area of Santa Clara County. Our neighbor's drunkard brother lived in an unserviced RV on their back lot. He sang at the top of his lungs at 3am and shat in an open-air toilet and often leered at my sister over the fence. So this is the scenario such laws are trying to prohibit, basically controlling for bad neighbors and hygiene and having more people on a lot than it's zoned for. Argue against NIMBY laws all you want (and I see the point—the alternative for that guy was homelessness and dying in the street), but our situation was representative of why those laws exist.

I agree with you re the exceptions. Doesn't seem hard to pass a law allowing temporary RV living during a rebuild.

[c22]

The plumbing issues sound like a problem, but I don't know that RV laws can stop your neighbors from singing too loud or leering at you.

In my jurisdiction you can apply for a permit to live in an RV for some bounded period of time while your house is getting built or whatever.

[ericbarrett]

You are right, those things weren't relevant and I probably shouldn't have mentioned them; just an unpleasant memory. The sanitation, however, was definitely an issue.