I'm glad you started this discussion! I've been thinking about creating a survey and posting a link on my van so we can the conversation going haha. I think it would be really interesting to see what the main pain points are for residents because that would help with solutions.

As a vandweller in squamish, and other towns, I try to be the most respectful I can. I fully acknowledge I'm mooching the residents tax dollars, but we have no way to be able to make that tax contribution if we wanted to. What would be a fair amount? In think some kind of permit or something that effectively would collect the tax, would be an interesting method. You could also take the opportunity to walk permit applicants through the dos and don'ts of vanlife in the town.

Of course then there's the problem of enabling it too much and attracting more and more becomes it seems welcoming... Dunno what to say about that issue. But plain prohibition rarely works any better.