Editor Rhonda Silence, your August 3 column Home sweet home is right on. We have been RV people since 1972 – 41 years.
Cook County is not alone however in their rules in using an RV for semi-permanent living on a lot owned by the RV owner. Most cities and counties have such rules. We live in Faribault, Rice County. We have lived in the same house for 45 years. My RV parking on my lot was grandfathered in. It was actually a double lot, now one. When we finally got a city street, I put in a curb cut and another driveway for the motorhome. Yes I can park in there—we’re grandfathered in. Not anymore, I guess it’s no RV visible from the street now.
Is it right – you and I don’t think so, but everywhere we go seems to have similar rules. Dilapidated, foreclosed houses are all right. Faribault finally is getting to the owners of those. I don’t think you and I are going to change it.
We enjoyed our three weeks in Grand Marais. We even made it to the very end of the Gunflint to see the old sites we camped at in the early ‘70s
Al Brodie
Faribault, MN
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