When I was young my family lived in an unincorporated area of Santa Clara County. Our neighbor's drunkard brother lived in an unserviced RV on their back lot. H

When I was young my family lived in an unincorporated area of Santa Clara County. Our neighbor's drunkard brother lived in an unserviced RV on their back lot. He sang at the top of his lungs at 3am and shat in an open-air toilet and often leered at my sister over the fence. So this is the scenario such laws are trying to prohibit, basically controlling for bad neighbors and hygiene and having more people on a lot than it's zoned for. Argue against NIMBY laws all you want (and I see the point—the alternative for that guy was homelessness and dying in the street), but our situation was representative of why those laws exist. I agree with you re the exceptions. Doesn't seem hard to pass a law allowing temporary RV living during a rebuild.