Lacey presses pause on its proposal to park RVs in Hawks Prairie
At Thursday night’s Lacey City Council meeting, City Manager Scott Spence delivered some welcome news for residents concerned about a proposal for overnight RV parking in Hawks Prairie.
Spence said the city will not open the site until it has had a public information meeting about the proposal. A date for that meeting has not been set, but Spence said it will likely happen around mid-October and will include Lacey City Council.
Spence said the city is reacting to a lot of discussions about the proposal, which calls for RVs to be parked on an unfinished road called Main Street in northeast Lacey. It can be found off Marvin Road Northeast, not far from outdoor outfitter Cabela’s.
The City Council already has discussed the proposal in some detail, including at a work session on Aug. 22. That work session was not on the published agenda for the Aug. 22 City Council meeting, but it was added to the agenda after the meeting had started.
The city wants the temporary overnight RV parking, which would likely operate between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m., because some who are living out of their RVs have been parking in the Lacey City Hall parking lot.
The city also passed a parking ordinance on Sept. 12 that limits RV and commercial vehicle parking in the city to no more than four hours. The ordinance allows for an exception like the Main Street proposal.
In a related move on Thursday, the council approved some budget amendments for 2019, including designating about $61,000 for start-up costs tied to the temporary overnight parking site.
This story was originally published September 27, 2019 at 7:00 AM.
