Parking and Transportation

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).

Watch the Road – New Cell Phone Law Campaign

Date: June 11, 2008

To: Neighborhood Council Friends and Colleagues
From: Department of Transportation

Is this true?! are we now allowing what has already become skid row in Venice to have night time parking restrictions completely removed? I just saw a copy of this email from one of our Councilman's minions. Notice how he ties the overnight parking restrictions to opening up 3rd and Hampton. This is bad for Venice! this area will become a magnet for the motorhome dwellers who want to live rent free by the beach. Mobile home parks are the answer, not free street parking overnight. paul

See Below:

From: Arturo Piña
Date: April 29, 2008 11:11:47 AM PDT

Updated LAX Traffic Advisory:

Traffic in Westchester continues to be blocked due to the explosion/fire
incident on the 8800 block of Sepulveda Blvd. Traffic in both north and
south directions of Sepulveda Blvd. between the intersections of
Manchester Blvd. and Century Blvd. continue to be blocked due to
firefighting and investigation-related resources (equipment and
vehicles). Motorists should avoid Lincoln Blvd. adjacent to the airport
as traffic on northbound Lincoln Blvd. is blocked at the intersection of
Lincoln and Sepulveda Blvd. while traffic on southbound Lincoln Blvd.

Please forward to anyone else who might be interested in stopping a proposal that can eventually lead to lining our freeways with billboards. Check out the attached pdf for a visual representation of what might be in the future.

Thanks,

Dennis Hathaway

STOP FREEWAY BILLBOARDS!

In the Los Angeles Times, February 13, 2008, California Section , page B2, there is an article detailing the LA City Council's passage of an ordinance dealing with the parking of oversize vehicles (RVs)on city streets.
A pilot program has begun in Brentwood.

I recommend your reading this article.

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L.A. parking program targets oversized vehicles
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City Council launches a pilot effort to restrict parking of oversized vehicles in San Pedro, Brentwood.

By David Zahniser
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

February 13 2008

www.councilmanrosendahl.com
City Hall (213) 473-7011 West LA (310) 575-8461 Westchester (310) 568-8772

September 27, 2007

Dear Friends:

I want to share with you an update on our mutual effort to win approval of overnight residential parking districts in Venice.

As you know, this has been a long and complicated effort, with lots of roadblocks. I am pleased to report that we are making progress. I have secured funding to help implement the districts, and convinced the responsible city agencies to address this aggressively.

From Dennis Hathaway (as posted on VeniceCA):

The issue of people living in vehicles on Venice streets is obviously pushing buttons right now, and creating lots of rhetoric from various points of view. I've heard claims that there are "hundreds" of such vehicles on the streets, as well as assertions that the numbers are greatly exaggerated.

In order to try to shed some light on this, I conducted an informal survey last night by driving the major streets of Venice and counting the vehicles that looked as if they were being used as living quarters. Beginning around 10 p.m., I drove all of Rose Ave., Pacific Ave., Main St., Lincoln Blvd., Venice Blvd., Walgrove Ave., Penmar Ave., California Ave., Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice Way and Grand Ave. Also parts of Windward Ave., Palms Blvd., Mildred Ave., Flower Ave., Sunset Ave., , Hampton Dr., and 7th Avenue.

The first OPD has been established and went into effect on July 25, 2007.

Streets in District 525 so far include:

1. Valita Street between Vernon Ave and Lake Street
2. Flower Ave between Lincoln Blvd and Sunset Avenue
3. Vernon Ave between Lincoln Blvd and Valita Avenue
4. Indiana Ave between Lincoln Blvd and Valita Street
5. Lake Street between Lincoln Blvd and Appleby Street

Much thanks goes to OPD Committee Chairs Georgann Abraham and Stewart Oscars as well as Councilman Rosendahl's office for making sure things moved along through the city.

Go to http://Ven

Claudia Martin is our Venice area LA City Neighborhood Prosecutor. She is working with our LAPD Senior Lead Officers, Heidi Llanas, Theresa Skinner, and Robin Richard to try to help Venice clean up our continuing problem of illegal RV