permit parking rules and regulations?
Our block, a walkstreet, learned about the permit parking issue when it was going before the Coastal Commission. We learned yesterday this has been approved, but there is no-where we can find out anything substantive about WHAT was approved.
Only rumors: permits will cost $45, overnight guests will have to be cleared by the city in advance and pay $10. 2/3 of a block must approve before permit parking signs go up (meaning, as with Santa Monica, if there's no permit parking on your street you get everyone from other streets).
And who do the walk streets vote with, as there's no parking on walk streets?
The only information I could find is that I will no longer be allowed to park within two blocks of my home to the north or east, but if I head south I can park all the way to Washington Blvd!
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You can go to the Ad Hoc
You can go to the Ad Hoc Overnight Parking District webpage here in VNC to read the history of OPD. This includes parameters of OPD.
Also you can read the following posting to see where the OPD process stands now:
Nate Kaplan (Nate.Kaplan@lacity.org)
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Dear Friends, We have received the following update on the Venice Overnight Parking Districts. Also, l have attached the official Notice of Decision from the City Engineer. Today, the Bureau of Engineering (BOE) issued its Notice of Decision and Final Staff Reports for the 5 Overnight Parking Districts (OPD) for the Venice area. These documents are available for your review at http://eng.lacity.org/techdocs/emg/Environmental_Review_Documents.htm. The five areas are:Oxford Triangle Area (OPD No. 520)East Venice Area (OPD No. 523) West Venice Area (OPD No. 522)Presidents Row Area (OPD No. 521)Villa Marina Community (OPD No. 526) The Notice of Decision for each is being issued today by BOE and the notices are being mailed out to all interested parties (everyone who has contacted the consultant or Bureau of Engineering about the Coastal Development Permits). This starts a 10 calendar day appeal period. Following that, the Board of Public Works has 30 calendar days to hear the appeals and make a final decision on the local permits. Then everything is sent to the California Coastal Commission (the Commission). There is a 20 working day appeal period, which starts the day the notice is received by the Commission. The Commission also will need to issue permits for the East and West Venice OPDs. They generally hear and decide on the appeals and permits at the same time. The Commission meets monthly, but the meetings alternate between northern and southern California locations. We have requested that this matter be heard at a Southern California meeting, which may extend it a month. If you have any questions, please contact Dorothy Meyer at (949) 930-7259, or if you require an appeal form, please contact Julie Van Wagner at BOE, (213) 485-5754 or via e-mail at Julie.VanWagner@lacity.org Thank you, Nate KaplanCommunications DeputyOffice of Councilman Bill Rosendahl213.978.0770213.400.1142 (cell)www.councilmanrosendahl.com
An open letter to Councilman Rosendahl and GRVNC
Dear Councilman Rosendahl and GRVNC Board Members,
I just spoke with Julie Van Wagner, who tells me that my concern (though she acknowledges it is real) is outside the purview of the Department of Engineering and the Coastal Commission process. She has referred me to Alan Willis with the Department of Transportation, who has not yet returned my call.
There’s a really big issue here: residents of walk streets get no say in the creation of permit parking. None. The relatively few residents with addresses on Pacific will determine whether the residents of every walk street between Speedway and Pacific will be required to purchase permits in order to park at the end of our own block, the same is true with the relatively few residents who have addresses on Main Street. What’s more, residents of Ocean Front Walk will not be allowed to purchase permits at all...not for any street in all of Venice.
Did you even consider us once in your deliberations? Was it necessary to violate the rights of so many Venice residents in order to achieve the goal of chasing RVs off our streets? Is it the position of Councilman Rosendahl and GRVNC that the residents of Venice’s walk streets are irrelevant to the issue of overnight parking in Venice?
I want to appeal the implementation of these zones, but I’m told my appeal is to the wrong authority. So who is the proper authority? If not you, our Councilman and Neighborhood Council, then who?