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The San Diego Point Loma community may soon start looking a lot nicer, yet less friendly to fans of motor homes and trailers.

The City Council has begun to investigate the financial consequences of banning overnight parking of RVs without permits. While most people agree the vehicles can be an eyesore, opponents of the law claim it will be detrimental to the San Diego poor who cannot afford to park their mobile homes in designated trailer parks. Other residents are worried the law will make it difficult if not impossible to own or operate an RV anywhere in San Diego.

The city is looking to test the proposal in a pilot area near Bay Park and Point Loma and may expand the ordinance city wide if they find the test to prove successful. Nothing has been decided for certain yet, but the Council has voted 7-0 to move forward with the plan at this stage. The Mayor's Office must present a report on how the proposal would work in both the test area and the city at large before the Council will vote on it again. Permit costs, how to apply to get permits and the police manpower needed to enforce the law are just some of the questions expected to be answered by the Mayor's office.

If passed, the ordinance will ban parking of these vehicles between 10pm and 6am on streets and parks of designated areas. Residents would be able to obtain up to 24 passes a year and these passes would work for themselves and their guests for up to 72 hours at a time and the vehicle would be required to park within 150 feet of the home the pass was registered to. How this will affect neighborhoods with crowded parking already is unknown.

If this new Point Loma law does pass in the City Council, it will be up to the California Coastal Commission to chose to enact it or not.