Do you have to maneuver around large unsightly RVs parked day after day in your neighborhood?

As you may have read in last week's Acorn, the Thousand Oaks City Council will be considering new parking rules approved by the city Traffic Commission, 4-1, which would make it more difficult and expensive for inconsiderate RV and truck owners to park their vehicles on city streets.

That would be good news, if the City Council were serious. However, I suspect the lone dissenter, Traffic Commissioner Rick Lemmo, foretells what his four City Council buddies will decide on July 14 when RV owners will pack city hall and complain they are being discriminated against.

They will say that the city should either back off or build an RV storage lot paid for with everyone else's tax dollars. The council will then reject the Traffic Commission's recommendation of stiffer enforcement and penalties in favor of their RVowning friends and campaign contributors.

Unless you've just moved here, you may have noticed this issue comes up very few years and council never seems to find a real solution. Will this time be any different?

On June 23 the council will be considering another important issue. In its quest for more revenue, the City Council may significantly revamp the long-standing commercial filming permit restrictions.

If you've come to enjoy the peacefulness of the current restrictions, which protect nextdoor neighbors' rights, then you may be in for a complete shock. Residents may wake up only when dozens of film trucks and workers are scurrying about, creating havoc and mayhem in their neighborhood day and night.

Write, call or e-mail the City Council and tell them that residential neighborhoods aren't an appropriate place to park large RVs and should be aggressively enforced. And also that a next-door neighbor's right to peace and quiet shouldn't be ignored and that filming at any hour of the day or night is inappropriate.

The current film permit code shouldn't be changed for the worse.

Better yet, go to the council meetings and tell them in person. John Fonti Thousand Oaks