Some San Diegans who live in their RVs have formed a union to fight ticketing of their vehicles. On Tuesday, members of the San Diego RV Residents Union held a protest seeking support from city council members.
“These are hardworking San Diegans who are trying to put food into their kids’ bellies just like all of us. Right now, they’re getting penalized nightly. Sometimes twice in the same night, they’ve gotten ticketed. And all the money that they’re making trying to survive is then going into these parking tickets,” said Frances Yasmeen Motiwalla, a member of the group Activist San Diego.
She said the tickets run about $170 each.
In 2024, the city of San Diego reached a legal settlement with the RV dwellers, which stopped tickets for a while. That changed when the city opened the H Barracks safe parking site in June 2025…