Yoakum City Council discusses RV Park regulations

Discussion was made on the HUB City Recreational Vehicles (RV) Park at the Yoakum City Council meeting Feb. 11.

Aaron Boxer, a selfproclaimed expert on RV Parks, urged the council to revise their policy for the park.

“In 2017, I put my youngest son into college and sold everything I had and bought an RV driving around the country,” Boxer said. “I’ve stayed at more than 400 RV parks while I was driving around the country. I’ve read a lot of RV park regulations. The proposed regulation (that the council made for the park) is vague and non-specific. One of the regulations, for example, is that you can only keep one vehicle at your RV park and if anyone comes to visit, they have to go park their car at a designated spot that’s not at your spot. I recommend (the board) goes back to the drawing board and start from the beginning and include the community to come up with a regulation that is clear, specific, concise and not vague.”

The RV Park was built in 1991 according to Boxer.

The council still has to decide what the goal of the park is.

“One thing is if the goal of the park is to create at temporary spot,” City Attorney Kenneth Kvinta said. “If you look at other ordinances, there are some parks that are like a hotel and there are some parks that are long term. That creates a landlord and tenant situation. It’s sort of like an apartment complex versus a hotel. We have to decide what the goal for the park is and we can get this policy more concise. There are regulations about the amount of cars you can have for a unit, about being registered, or about damage to the park.”

The council tabled this item to give Boxer time to revise the regulations and submit it to council.

The Yoakum Police Department also submitted the racial profiling report at the council meeting.

According to the report, a total of 1,375 stops were made with 6 2 1 of them being white, 627 Hispanic or Latino, 114 African American, 12 Asian, and one American Indian.

The reports track much information, both by race and sex of the person stopped, including the reasons an officer might stop someone.