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Ohio Friday, May 31, 2013 The plusses and minuses of RV homesteading in Ohio's oil patch Oil and gas field workers flooding into eastern Ohio are looking at creative solutions for housing by WKSU's TIM RUDELL |
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 | Thousands of workers from drilling rigs like this one in Carroll County, construction crews, trucking companies and service providers need housing in the Utica shale play. | Courtesy of Tim Rudell | Download (WKSU Only) |
In The Region: Recreational vehicles with people living in them are showing up on vacant lots and in empty parking areas across eastern Ohio. Temporary workers in the Utica shale play are using them for short-term housing.
And, as WKSU’s Tim Rudell reports, that’s not necessarily a welcome sight for locals. |
The Village of Carrollton in the center of Carroll County has passed an ordinance restricting use of RVs as full-time residences. Similar laws are under consideration in other communities in Ohio’s oil patch.
In Tuscarawas County, Uhrichsville Mayor Terry Culbertson says he and City Council are talking right now about RV homesteading.
Not so simple He says it is important to recognize that there’s not a lot available housing in the thinly populated areas where drilling is focused, and to recognize, too, that local communities don’t want to discourage workers from coming in.
“We’re looking at all aspects of it. We don’t want to keep these people out of the area. We want their economy — buying gas and groceries and what have you. But we have to be concerned with health issues.”
Next up Health and safety issues, especially regarding sewer and water services, are the common threads as towns and villages in the shale play try to deal with the proliferation of RV residences.
Uhrichsville council is expected to take up the matter at it’s meeting Thursday. |
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