by Sean Bonner
Riverside Drive no longer a motel
March 27, 2008 at 12:07 pm in East Side, Law
Anyone who is familiar with the stretch of Riverside Drive in Silverlake near Fletcher knows that for quite a while there has been an entire neighborhood living in parked RVs on that street. Honestly, on the section that I regularly pass I’d count no less than 10 different vehicles parked there and not moving for months. Additionally there would be tents and grills set up and people sitting with lawn chairs on the sidewalks next to their cars. I think I even saw the mail dude delivering something one day but I can’t say for sure. On one hand people have to go somewhere and a mostly empty stretch of road like that is probably better in the big scheme of things than if they took up residence in a grocery store or school parking lot just down the street, but on the other hand people living in cars and dumping trash out their windows onto the street and creating an atmosphere where people are afraid to walk down the road isn’t too wonderful for community moral. Well, those days are over. For better or for worse the days of 24 hour parking there are over. Signs are posted noting the new restricted parking times and already most of the RVs have moved on to greener pastures emptier streets somewhere else. Officially Friday is the change over date, it’ll be shocking to see what the street looks like next week.
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