Overnight Parking Restrictions in Your Community

Dear Neighborhood or Community Council President:

As many of you know, last July the City Council passed an ordinance allowing for the establishment of special parking districts that restrict on-street parking to residents and guests between the hours of 2 a.m. and 6 a.m.

The overnight parking program was created largely in response to neighborhood complaints about campers and RVs parked on residential streets overnight. Despite some reservations, Councilman Rosendahl voted in favor of the ordinance so that affected neighborhoods would have the ability to make their own choices about whether to create the overnight permit parking restrictions.

By DOT's own admission, the rules governing the establishment of such districts are very vague and flexible. The benefit of that flexibility is that each community can craft its own guidelines for how or whether to implement a program to establish overnight parking districts.

Councilman Rosendahl would like to invite your neighborhood or community council to consider the issue of overnight parking districts in your community. He is interested in what your council feels about how (or even if) they should be established in your community.

I have provided two attachments. The first is a Word document containing the ordinance establishing the overnight parking program. The second Word document contains the step-by-step processes for the creation of a full-fledged preferential parking district, or a temporary preferential parking district. The councilman invites your council to review all of the different methods. Your council may choose one of the existing processes as your model, or your council may craft one entirely of its own design. Or your council can tell us you don't want these districts at all in your area.

We welcome your input and suggestions for how to make this work best for your own neighborhoods. And we would be happy to arrange for representatives of DOT to speak to your neighborhood council about the issues involved.

If you have any questions or feedback to share, please contact the council office field representative for your community: Andrea Epstein, Len Nguyen, Mark-Antonio Grant or Kathryn Frengs.

Thanks

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Mike Bonin
Chief of Staff
Office of Councilman Bill Rosendahl
City Hall, Room 415
200 N Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 473-7011
(213) 473-6926 (fax)
www.councilmanrosendahl.com