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March 27, 1990
Santa Monica, California
TO:
Mayor and City Council
FROM;
city staff
SUBJECT:
Recommendation to Direct city Attorney to Prepare
Ordinance Change in Municipal Code Section 3202
Relating to Deposit of Beach Parking Lot Fees into
Honor Boxes
INTRODUCTION
The following recommends that the city Council direct the City
Attorney to prepare an ordinance change to Municipal Code Section
3202 to enable the Police Department to ticket vehicles which
fail to deposit beach parking lot fees in honor boxes located in
three of the city's beach parking lots.
DISCUSSION
with the approval of City staff, Executive Parking, Inc. (EPI),
installed honor box parking payment systems in beach parking lots
located at 810 Pacific Coast Highway and l670 and l750 Appian Way
in the Spring of 1989 as a means of generating additional revenue
from those lots which did not generate sufficient revenue to pay
for staffed operation but were heavily parked due to their close
proximity to the pier and beach clubs. since their installation,
EPI has had repeated difficulties with individuals entering
unattended honor box lots and refusing to deposit payment.
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order to facilitate enforcement, the Police Department has
suggested that Santa Monica Municipal Code section 3202 be
amended to provide that:
No person shall park a vehicle on any unattended public
parking lot, without depositing the posted fee in the fee
box, if a fee box has been installed in the lot, provided
that all entrances to the lot are posted, notifying citizens
of the fee and the existence of the fee boxes.
After an initial trial period, City staff recommended in the Fall
of 1989 that the City Council authorize the city Attorney to
draft the above outlined ordinance modification to enable the
Police Department to ticket vehicles which fail to deposit beach
parking lot fees in honor boxes. At that time the City council
requested that staff return with additional information related
to several aspects of beach parking, including the rationale for
honor box installations. City staff distributed an Information
Item addressing Council questions on March 12th, and is now
returning to Council to recommend that the city Attorney be
directed to draft the ordinance change relating to honor box
enforcement.
BUDGET/FINANCIAL IMPACT
Honor boxes currently yield the City approximately $39,000 in
additional revenue. It is anticipated that additional honor box
revenue in the amount of approximately $50,000 will be generated
if the Police are granted the legal means to patrol honor box
lots.
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RECOMMENDATION
City staff recommends that the City Council direct the City
Attorney to prepare an ordinance change to Municipal Code Section
3202 adding the language which is outlined above in order to
enable the Police to patrol beach parking lots for honor box
violators.
Prepared by:
Barbara Moran, Director, CUltural and Recreation
Services
Julia N. Griffin, Senior Management Analyst
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