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Seattle may ease parking restrictions for RV, car campers


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SEATTLE -- The City Council is considering lifting parking restrictions for people who are living in cars and RVs.

The proposal, the subject of council discussions on Wednesday, could mean no 72-hour shuffle, which forces vehicles to move; no parking tickets, no impounding.

All that will be needed is parking in a legal spot and be law-abiding.

In the last homeless count, 40 percent of all people not in shelters were in vehicles.

That would help people like Teresa Britton who has been doing the 72-hour shuffle on Harbor Avenue.

"I've got one ticket. I haven't been able to pay yet and I don't have the money to pay it," she said.

Dwayne McCormick lives in the city's only sanctioned RV lot and intends to stay at the lot in SODO because the city brings him services.


Business owners worry that there will be more RV lots of vehicles that never move if the city agrees to the proposal..

"We haven't seen one person leave in the 15 months that they been here," said Bill Kaczmarek, owner of the Seattle Textile Co. near the Spokane Street Viaduct. "We were told it was going to be only temporary and they would be gone by the end of the year."



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