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Twilla City Council adopts ordinances on RV parking at shelters, water-rights review and front-yard vehicle parking
Summary
The council on April 1 approved three ordinances: an exception permitting RV parking at qualifying homeless shelters, a clarification allowing review of water-rights quality (not quantity), and new limits on front-yard vehicle parking in single-family zones. All measures passed unanimously.
Twilla City Council on April 1 adopted three ordinance changes addressing recreational-vehicle parking at homeless shelters, the city’s review of water-rights exactions, and restrictions on parking operable vehicles in front and side yards.
Police Chief Adrien Day presented ordinance 2025-32, an amendment that creates an exception allowing RV parking only at homeless shelter facilities that meet a state-code definition and provide specified services. Day told the council that the measure allows up to two RVs at a time on a paved lot where the facility provides meals, showers and restroom access and prohibits accumulation of unsightly materials; if an RV cannot move under its own power after two weeks, the facility would bear the cost of its removal. “This is a proposed amendment exception to RV location and use only at homeless shelter facilities,” Day said.
Councilman Hansen moved adoption; Councilman Gossip seconded. The measure passed 5–0.
City Engineer Paul Hansen presented ordinance 2026-07 to revise Twilla City Code section 7-26-3 governing water-rights exactions. Paul Hansen said the change “does not change the quantity or does not change any of those obligations. It purely allows the city to further review the quality, the quantity, and the sufficiency of water rights to make sure that we can supply those in the future.” No members of the public spoke on the item; Councilwoman Goes moved adoption and Councilman McCall seconded. The council voted 5–0 to adopt the ordinance.
Community Development Director Andrew Agard described ordinance 2026-08, an amendment to code 7-4-7 intended to prevent front yards from becoming “automobile storage yards.” Agard outlined a set of conditions that allow parking in sideyards and rear yards (for example, paved parking and drive approaches that meet access requirements), exempt properly constructed circular drives and add a figure to clarify permitted areas. “We have detected that there are numerous situations in the city where front yards are being turned into automobile storage yards and we are hopeful that this ordinance will help provide some mechanism for Tilla City to respond and enforce these situations,” Agard said. Councilman Gossip moved adoption and Councilwoman Goes seconded; the ordinance passed 5–0.
All three ordinances were adopted by unanimous roll call with the five council members present. The council did not record any public speakers opposing these measures during the required public hearings.
