Yesterday the City Council made further tweaks to the controversial “RV Ranching” ordinance proposed by Mayor Durkan, intended to stop predatory “vanlords” from renting out extensively damaged RVs and other vehicles to homeless people.
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“RV Ranching” bill gets rewritten, inches forward
This afternoon, the Council once again took up the Mayor’s bill prohibiting “RV Ranching” of dilapidated vehicles. But it rewrote the bill to change the focus from cracking down on the predatory ranchers to protecting and providing assistance to the victims.
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RV Ranching, the Sequel
Earlier this week, the City Council had another committee hearing on the Mayor’s proposed ordinance to curb “RV Ranching,” predatory renting of RV’s and other vehicles in poor condition to homeless people. The second conversation went better than the first one last week, and the issues are becoming clearer.
Continue readingDurkan administration tries to stop “RV ranching,” writes a bad bill, gets told off by Council
Back in June, Mayor Durkan announced that she would be transmitting to the City Council a bill that prohibits the renting of “hazardous vehicles” to vulnerable individuals as shelter. Today that bill had its first hearing in front of a Council committee, and it did not go well.
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