How we earn a “source-checked” label

Authorship and responsibility

Guides are published by the Can I Park My RV? Research Desk, the editorial identity of this independent site. We use organization authorship because no individual attorney or city official writes or approves these pages. We do not invent expert biographies, legal credentials or first-hand municipal authority.

The site is not a law firm, government office, homeowners association or permit service. No guide is legal advice or an address-level approval.

Publication standard

Source hierarchy

1. Current enacted code or ordinance. This controls when it directly answers the question.
2. Current official permit, planning or code-enforcement page. This explains process, fees, maps and how the city applies the rule.
3. Official agenda, staff report or adopted ordinance file. This is used when a recent change has not yet appeared in the codified library.
4. Secondary sources. These may help locate an official document but are not used as the final authority for a verdict.

If two official sources conflict, we do not silently choose the friendlier answer. We describe the conflict, prefer the newer enacted authority where identifiable, and direct the reader to the responsible city office.

Technology and AI-assisted production

Technology may assist with locating official documents, comparing text, organizing notes, generating page structure and running consistency, metadata and link checks. It does not turn an unsupported statement into a verified rule. Publication still requires a specific official source, a stated scope and a visible uncertainty label when the source is incomplete.

These pages do not claim attorney review. Readers should open the cited source and confirm their address, vehicle and intended use with the city before relying on a result.

Corrections and updates

Material corrections are made in place and the page’s “last reviewed” date is updated only when the cited municipal sources are actually checked. Styling, spelling or layout edits alone do not justify a new source-review date.

This site does not yet operate a public corrections inbox or submission form. We will not pretend otherwise. Until one is available, use the official contact option shown on each city guide to confirm a live rule. A future corrections channel will be added here before we invite submissions.

How future city coverage is prioritized

New guides are selected where the jurisdiction has accessible primary sources and the four-part rule can be researched without creating a thin page. A usable research request needs the exact incorporated city—not only a mailing address—plus the parking location, vehicle type, dimensions, duration and whether anyone will sleep in it.

We do not publish dozens of near-duplicate pages from a template. If an official source does not answer a layer, the guide records that gap instead of filling it with generic advice.

Commercial independence

At launch, the site has no paid placements, sponsored rankings or affiliate relationships. Nearby-storage links are convenience links to a map search, not endorsements. If commercial relationships are introduced later, they will be disclosed on the relevant page and will not change a municipal-rule verdict.

Anonymous reader feedback and interaction counts

We count page loads and measured tab visits, clicks from guides and comparisons to the checker, checker visibility, starts and completed submissions, storage-link visibility, and visits that spend at least 30 visible seconds and reach halfway through a city guide, explicit checker submissions, clicks to official sources and clicks on nearby-storage Google Maps links in city guides and checker results. You can also choose whether a guide or checker answer helped. These counts help us identify incomplete answers and improve the site.

Guide-to-checker click measurement began October 15, 2026. Counts record the source guide or comparison and destination city once per measured tab visit. They record link activation, not a confirmed page arrival or a linked checker completion. Earlier clicks are not backfilled.

Storage clicks are grouped by the city covered by the guide or shown in the checker result and counted once per city and page in each measured tab visit. They show an attempt to open storage options; they do not confirm that Google Maps loaded, that someone contacted a facility or that a booking occurred. Checker storage-click measurement began October 9, 2026; city-guide storage links began October 15, 2026. Earlier clicks in each placement were not recorded.

The measurement database does not save your name, IP address, exact property address, vehicle measurements, search terms or a visitor identifier. This measurement uses no cookies or third-party analytics service. Temporary browser-tab storage holds separate random event receipts to avoid recounting the same action after a reload. These expire after 30 minutes of inactivity or at a new UTC day; they are not a shared visitor identifier. If browser storage is unavailable, counts fall back to each page load. A browser-local setting remembers when you exclude your own testing. Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track disable automatic counts; feedback you deliberately submit can still be saved.

The revised measurement starts October 13, 2026 in a separate dataset; older counters are not directly comparable. Counts are daily totals in UTC, not unique people or individual browsing histories. Checker and storage visibility require at least half of their observed control to appear on screen, or an explicit interaction with that control. Repeated visits and automated traffic can affect them. Internal checks run in QA mode are excluded. Exclude this browser from counts before testing; resume counts in this browser when finished. This applies on the current site domain; historical totals and checks outside that mode can include test activity. Time and scrolling are reading signals, not proof that someone understood a rule. A helpfulness vote is an opinion, not confirmation that a parking setup is lawful.

A random request receipt prevents an interrupted feedback or storage-click submission from being counted twice when retried. It does not connect your visits, and receipts are cleared after seven days as new events arrive. The hosting provider may maintain its own operational request logs separately. A feedback message says it was saved only after the site confirms persistence.

Optional visit analytics

From October 19, 2026, you can choose “Allow analytics” to help us understand visits, page use, parking-check completion, performance and clicks on official sources and Google Maps. This is a separate opt-in dataset from the anonymous daily counters described above. You can decline and use every parking guide and checker.

With permission, your browser keeps a random identifier for up to 90 days and a visit identifier that expires after 30 minutes of inactivity. The server stores hashes of these identifiers, page paths, general device/browser/operating-system categories, country, referring website, a campaign label, the selected city, broad checker scenario/result categories, activity time, scroll milestones and link-click categories. Exact vehicle measurements, other detailed form answers, street addresses, names, email addresses, raw search text and precise locations are not sent to visit analytics. Raw IP addresses are not stored in this dataset, and we do not use fingerprinting.

The owner-private dashboard uses these records to estimate distinct browsers, visits and journeys. Recognised browsers are not an exact count of people, and opted-in traffic does not represent everyone. Detailed records are retained for up to 396 days, browser-recognition records for up to 90 days, and daily summary records for up to 760 days. Google search reports are imported separately from Search Console and use its own reporting dates and privacy filtering.

Use “Analytics choices” in the footer to withdraw permission on this browser. Withdrawal clears the local identifiers and stops future detailed collection; previously collected records remain until their retention limit. Global Privacy Control, Do Not Track and the site’s internal-testing setting disable detailed collection. Technical failures or blocked analytics may leave reporting gaps. Hosting-provider operational logs are separate.

Texas comparison CSV personal-use license v1.0

Effective October 7, 2026. These terms apply to the Texas RV parking comparison CSV and only to its original compilation and editorial summaries, to the extent Can I Park My RV? holds the relevant rights.

You may download, keep and use a copy without charge for your own personal RV planning. These terms grant no additional permission to republish, bulk redistribute or resell our protected compilation or editorial text. Other uses permitted by applicable law remain unaffected.

These terms do not claim ownership of facts or municipal laws and grant no rights to third-party source documents. Follow the applicable terms of those sources. The CSV is dated research, not an official rulebook, legal advice or parking approval; confirm current conditions through its source links.

Related pages

Read the step-by-step research methodology, learn why the site exists, or open the RV parking rule checker.