BERKELEY — Despite pleas from a horde of homeless people and activists, Berkeley reaffirmed its ban on overnight RV parking Tuesday night, giving the boot to around 200 people who live in the vehicles, and appeasing some west side business owners and residents who were complaining about them.

Matthew Cox, 30, and his 7-year-old daughter Chanelle are among the RV-dwellers who may have to find a new city to park their rig. Cox, a Berkeley native, had lived in Vallejo before coming back to Berkeley in order to enroll his kids in Berkeley schools, he said at Tuesday’s city council meeting where council members voted 6-3 to finalize the ban on “parking oversize vehicles, including campers and RVs” on city streets from 2 to 5 a.m.

“The best place for my kids to get an education is right here in Berkeley, I moved from Vallejo — in a house — to come up here in an RV for my kids to have an education…” Cox said. “You cannot take me and my family away from these RVs in Berkeley, I will literally die before you do so.”

Cox held his daughter up to the microphone during the meeting. In a timid voice, Chanelle told councilmembers how she felt about the situation.

“My name is Chanelle and I live in an RV and I live in Berkeley. I want to stay here,” she said.

Mayor Jesse Arreguin and council members Rashi Kesarwani, Ben Bartlett, Sophie Hahn, Susan Wengraf and Lori Droste voted to approve the second reading of the ordinance, which elaborated on the original one by calling on city officials to hold off enforcing the ban — unless there’s health or safety issues — until a permit system is in place. Council members Cheryl Davila, Rigel Robinson and Kate Harrison dissented. The vote was made around midnight, following hours of public testimony.

The permit system would allow people to apply for a permit to park their RVs on the street for up to three months out of the year, and gives priority to families with children in Berkeley schools, college students, people who have had a Berkeley address within the last 10 years, and others. The city has 6 months to create that system.

Once the ban is enforced, people found in violation could be issued $60 tickets for parking their RVs overnight on city streets.

Tuesday’s city council meeting, held at the Berkeley Unified School District board room, was packed. Though most of the attendees were protesting against the ban, a group of West Berkeley business owners and residents spoke in support of it.

Many of the city’s RV-dwellers settled near Eighth and Harrison streets after getting booted from the HS Lordships Restaurant parking lot at the Berkeley Marina. The city fenced off the 300-space public parking lot after the restaurant closed in order to make repairs and lease the building. The restaurant has remained vacant, and the parking lot has remained fenced off.

Steven Donaldson, founder of West Berkeley marketing agency RadiantBrands, said he and other business owners “don’t want to be punitive” but feel as though some rules should be in place so that West Berkeley doesn’t bear the brunt of the city’s RV dwellers.

“We do have problems with waste, human waste, garbage and trash, and we need to resolve this because it’s really impacting our businesses,” Donaldson said at the meeting.

Other supporters of the ban complained about a lack of parking due to the RVs, and altercations with RV-dwellers. Some business owners, however, welcomed the RV-dwellers on the streets near their businesses.

Prior to the vote, Councilmember Sophie Hahn voiced a broader perspective on the issue. She blamed the situation on an “over-heated job creation market that has no regard for housing.”

Hahn called on tech companies and other major employers to take more responsibility for their effect on the housing market.

“I am making a public appeal to Apple, Google, and the top 1,000 grossing companies in the Bay Area, you have a huge role in creating this crisis, I know you didn’t mean to but you did, you are profiting from the workers you bring here wildly…” Hahn said. “My ask, and this is a genuine ask, is step up, my door is open.”