How Long Can A Car Park In Front Of Your House In Garden Grove Ca

The city of Garden Grove's new ordinance on parking your recreational vehicle on city streets will take affect shortly, so before you end up in a fix like David and Linda Howard – the hapless RV-ers in the best movie ever made about heading out on the highway, looking for adventure – you'd be well-advised to make sure you know what the new law requires and how to tend to it.

In a nutshell, starting Oct. 16, 2017, you will need a city-issued permit to park your RV on the street. Park on private property, no problem. But no permit on a city street? That's a citation waiting to get written.

The ordinance was approved by the city council in August and it's relatively painless. There's no cost to get a permit. You can get up to 12 permits good for 72 hours each or up to six week-long permits within a year, and they can't be consecutive – you'll have to allow at least a day between permits, which are only good for parking in front of the address of the resident requesting one.

And basically, if Brainiac can further explain, the goal is to A) keep neighborhoods looking nice by only allowing folks to park on the street for a few days here and there while loading or unloading, and B) make sure that folks parking RVs on Garden Grove city streets are residents of the city.

Starting Monday, Oct. 2, 2017, you can register your RV online at garden-grove.org/rvpermit. You can also register in person at Garden Grove City Hall, which you find by hopping in your RV and driving to 11222 Acacia Parkway. Applicants need documents including proof that you live in Garden Grove, a driver's license, email address, and license plate number.

As for the movie mentioned above, it's "Lost In America," the 1985 comedy starring Albert Brooks and Julie Haggerty, the story of an uptight city couple who decide to cash all that in and "find themselves" on the road in their new RV. To say that things go downhill faster than an Olympic skier. It's truly a hilarious movie.

As for runners-up in the Best RV Movie competition if it's up to Brainiac – and really, who's gonna stop us now? – check out Jack Nicholson and Cathy Bates in 2002's "About Schmidt," and Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in 1953's "The Long, Long Trailer."

Rusty Skeleton may be no longer

You know the Garden Grove Galleria even if you think you don't. It's the eyesore of an unfinished building at the corner of Garden Grove Boulevard and Brookhurst Street, about nine stories of a steel frame that's largely sat rusting for a decade, so much so that it's widely referred to as the Rusty Skeleton.

The latest in a long line of potential developers is AMG & Associates. We just heard at the start of this week that they scheduled a neighborhood meeting at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 27, at the Boys & Girls Club of Garden Grove – which is practically in the shadow of the beams and girders of the Galleria – to talk about that firm's current hoped-for plans for the site.

The Garden Grove Galleria project has been frozen in time for a decade or more now, but the current developer is now floating a proposal to increase the density of the project to allow 400 affordable senior housing units and nearly 13,000 square feet of commercial space there.Register file photo

If you're reading this in your Thursday paper, well, the meeting happened too late for our deadline this week, but in a nutshell, AMG is seeking to increase the density of the project to allow 400 affordable units of senior housing along with nearly 13,000 square feet of commercial space.

In a post alerting folks to the meeting on the Garden Grove Neighborhood Association's Facebook page, Melodee van Hoorebeke no doubt spoke for many who've watched in frustration as year after year of nothing changed at the half-finished construction site.

"God just let them build it!!" she wrote. "Anything, I'm tired of looking at it."