This is an odd question, but do any students get a parking pass for an RV or van and then sleep on campus in the parking lot?
You’ve already got access to showers at the rec center. You can eat on campus. All you really need is a bed and a disposal toilet for late nights.
You’d be on campus and rent would be no more than the parking pass.
No. I’m sure it is against city ordinances to sleep in a van that isn’t on a permanent pad (like in a mobile home park). There is no electrical access for RVs, not even for tailgating. People bring generators.
According to this I is legal to sleep in your car or van overnight in Boulder. The key seems to be not to park in the same place day after day. Maybe if your pass is for the three story garage across from the engineering center and you moved your vehicle daily, there wouldn’t be an issue. You’d have a right personality o keep your vehicle there 24 hours a day, as I recall. Or maybe it isn’t a 24 hour pass. When I went looking o grad school, I had a pass to that lot, but I never spent the night there because I lived off campus.
Longmont doesn’t have any restrictions.
"He said police don’t publicize the law out of fear of abuse, but it’s legal for someone to spend one night in their vehicle. He said the law caters to visitors passing through Boulder, not struggling locals.”
So, I didn’t catch the typos.
It should say I think you have the right to keep your vehicle in your assigned lot 24 hours a day.
Damn. More typos. My auto correct puts in words I don’t type.
Among RV-ers, this is called “boondocking”. If the student had a camper van that fit in a regular parking space, they could park at the school during the day and then spend the night at the closest Walmart. It’s been done before, but it’s not a good idea for anyone except the truly desperate.
Well, RVs aren’t allowed in the engineering parking garage. The ‘day lots’ near the garage allow some RVs on game day, but those are not overnight lots. For football games, RV passes are $100 and overnight parking is not available. From the CU parking website:
https://www.bouldercounty.org/open-space/fairgrounds/campground/
Camping in Boulder County
The Fairgrounds campground is the only open space property that allows camping. Camping at all other open space properties is prohibited.
If your student wants to move his RV every night, good luck. Legally, he’s limited to 14 nights per year by Boulder County. Most of the streets around campus have 2 hour limits for street parking without a resident sticker.
I’m interested in the idea in general because Boulder needs more housing. Allowing people to have a place to park RVs is likely to happen at some point.
Vans are different than RVs. A VW bus, for example, wouldn’t be prohibited in a CU parking lot. There are lots that do allow overnight parking.
Here’s someone who did it at Duke.
https://www.cheaprvliving.com/budget/guest-post-how-to-live-in-a-van-on-a-college-campus/