FREMONT — For the people who’ve made their homes along a frontage road near Tesla and other multibillion-dollar companies in Fremont, the area soon will be off-limits to their RVs, trailers and cars.

Seeking to put an end to all parking there, Fremont plans to place boulders along a portion of the road in the city’s busy industrial district.

The crackdown comes days after this news organization published a story about a 1.3-mile stretch of Kato Road where increasing numbers of big-rig drivers have been parking for years, and more recently homeless people living in RVs also have taken up residence.

“They’re picking on us,” Tony Zamora, 41, said Friday, standing outside of his trailer along Kato Road, where he’s been living for several months.

The city, with a growing homeless population, also intends to put up signs restricting parking for all vehicles, including truckers, along a portion of Kato Road in the city’s industrial “Innovation District,” over the coming days and weeks, according to a city spokeswoman.

Zamora came to Kato after police kicked him and the trailer out of other areas of the city, such as parks and residential neighborhoods.

“People are out here for a reason, not because they want to be. They have to be here, there’s nowhere else to go,” Zamora said.

Many of the truckers park their rigs along the road overnight or for days at a time, in between picking up loads of new Tesla cars or trash and recycling from the nearby expanding car factory.

Some are long-haul truckers just passing through the region, using the road’s shoulder as an improvised truck stop, as they say there are no real truck stops in the Bay Area.

However, homeless people and truckers alike will need to find a new place to park very soon, it seems.

“The goal is to prevent parking on Kato Road, and this will apply to all vehicles and trucks,” city spokeswoman Cheryl Golden said Friday in an email. “The use of boulders is a known cost-effective measure for use as a barrier.” .

Two electric signboards placed by the city on Jan. 27 warn people coming and going that “new parking restrictions will be enforced” beginning Feb. 6. Also on Jan. 27, the city placed A-frame barricades with signs affixed that say new parking restrictions were to begin that day.

Several city departments began meeting in early December “to discuss ways to make improvements along the stretch of Kato Road, given the traffic and other safety concerns,” Golden said.

“The city has been hearing substantial concerns from residents, businesses and the public at large over the past year or so,” she added.

“The plan is to remove existing parking and physically prevent future parking, through the placement of signage and rock boulders,” she said, noting the work will be done in phases.

“Additionally, the city is continuing conversations with Tesla on truck-parking management,” she said.

Fremont Mayor Lily Mei, who helped champion a homeless navigation center the council approved last year, deferred to the city statement Friday and declined to comment on whether she agrees with the policy to use boulders.

Dave, a homeless man living in an RV along the shoulder of Kato who didn’t want to give his last name, said Friday he and his girlfriend both received tickets this week on their cars for having expired registration tags, though no one from the city has knocked on their door or spoken with them.

Other big-rigs and semi-trailers in the area also had tickets ranging from $63 to $126 stuck onto doors and windows Friday.

Dave said city workers also this week placed more bright green stickers that warn people living in the area they need to leave by Feb. 6, though he may try to move farther down the road in the short-term and hope city crews and officers will leave him alone.

“That’s the only option I have right now, until I find another spot. Right now I can’t financially put like 50 dollars of gas in my RV,” he said.

Golden, the city spokeswoman, said vehicles along the road in front of Seagate’s building, at 47488 Kato Rd., and a few hundred feet north and south of there will be tagged for removal Saturday.

Vehicles and items still there on Feb. 6 will be removed, and on Feb. 6 and 7, the city will install parking-restriction signs and place the boulders “subject to progress on removal of vehicles,” Golden said.

“Phase 1” of removing people’s property or trash and installing signs and boulders will be “evaluated for cost, effectiveness and any relocation impacts,” Golden said, though she did not immediately provide a cost estimate for the plans.

The city could then begin a possible phase two and three along areas south and north of the first area and would need to be signed off on by City Manager Mark Danaj. The second phase could begin by mid-February, she said.

Zamora said after he split up with the mother of his two kids, he moved from Concord to his sister’s house in Lathrop, and he found a job in Newark installing windows.

But the more than three-hour commute each day was getting too expensive, so he bought a trailer on Craigslist and restored it himself about a year ago. His 2-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter sometimes stay with him on weekends in the trailer, where he has beds, toys and games for them.

“I can’t afford to live out here and pay rent, but I have a good job,” he said.

Zamora said the transmission on the pickup truck he uses to move his trailer is currently broken, so he’s worried about being able to move outside of the parking restricted areas in time.

“I think that it would be great if the city let us continue (living here) because we’re not bothering anybody,” he said.

He also thinks the city issuing tickets to homeless folks over things such as expired tags is punitive and unnecessary.

“You can’t afford to rent a place anyway,” he said. “How are you going to pay your tickets?”