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The junky RVs seem extremely out of place lined up together on El Camino. I've always assumed they only get away with this because they're on the Stanford side of the border between Stanford and the City of Palo Alto. Palo Alto NIMBYs would have run them out long ago.

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Gee, have some compassion. After all, someone's got to be the janitor or the cashier, and it's tough to pay sky-high rent on that kind of pay.

There's actually a substantial debate about car camping in Palo Alto. A parking/camping ban was floated, then repealed; these spaces on El Camino seem like a compromise, and are in a bit of a jurisdictional gray-area between Stanford, Palo Alto, and the California Highway Patrol.

https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2014/11/18/palo-alto-str...

Its not necessarily a bad thing having to see how other real humans live their lives.

I feel sorry for people that can't afford to live there and am greatly upset by the nimby attitude around the bay but I don't think living in RVs on public streets or for that matter tents in parks is acceptable. They need to pay property taxes and contribute. What about going to the bathroom, proper sewage treatment is a necessity for public health. The solution seems to be to stop letting selfish locals dictate policy. Maybe the RVs are the best option at the moment but I hope we don't consider it a permanent one.

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