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SR 02-13-2018 11A City Council Report City Council Meeting: February 13, 2018 Agenda Item: 11.A 1 of 9 To: Mayor and City Council From: David Martin, Director, Transportation Planning Subject: Establishment of Preferential Parking Zone OO on portions of Centinela Avenue, Franklin Street, Berkeley Street, Stanford Street, Yale Street, Harvard Street, Princeton Street, Lipton Avenue, and Montana Avenue, and adoption of a Resolution establishing Preferential Parking Regulations. Recommended Action Staff recommends that the City Council: 1. Establish Preferential Parking Zone OO to include:  Centinela Avenue and Franklin Street between Lipton Avenue and the north City limit,  Berkeley Street between Lipton Avenue and Stanford Street,  Stanford Street between Lipton and Montana Avenues,  Yale, Harvard, and Princeton streets between Washington and Montana Avenues,  Lipton Avenue between Stanford Street and Centinela Avenue, and  Montana Avenue between 26th and Stanford streets. The parking regulations on these streets shall be: “Two hour parking 9 A.M. to 6 P.M., daily, except by permit.” 2. Approve the attached Resolution (Attachment D) establishing Preferential Parking. Executive Summary Residents of two blocks of Lipton Avenue between Stanford and Franklin streets have submitted qualifying petitions requesting creation of a new preferential parking zone. The residents assert that non-resident parking is impacting their ability to find parking near their homes. As installing preferential parking regulations on individual blocks has the possibility of spillover impacts on the surrounding area, community meetings were held to consider preferential parking for the entire neighborhood. Parking studies conducted in the area in October 2015 and September 2017 confirm that street parking on non-permitted streets in the area have high to moderate usage during daytime hours with the highest usage on streets near Wilshire Boulevard and Montana Avenue. 2 of 9 Staff recommends creating Preferential Parking Zone OO, approving preferential parking regulations for the following blocks:  Centinela Avenue and Franklin Street between Lipton Avenue and the north City limit,  Berkeley Street between Lipton Avenue and Stanford Street,  Stanford Street between Lipton and Montana avenues,  Yale, Harvard, and Princeton streets between Washington and Montana avenues,  Lipton Avenue between Stanford Street and Centinela Avenue, and  Montana Avenue between 26th and Stanford streets. The parking regulations on these streets shall be “Two hour parking 9 A.M. to 6 P.M., daily, except by permit.” Should Council approve the recommended action, it is estimated that permit sales for the 3000 and 3100 blocks of Lipton Avenue, the only two blocks that have completed a qualifying petition to date, would generate approximately $515 annually, which would offset, but not fully recover, the cost to the City of issuing permits to residents. Additionally, new signage would be required at an estimated one-time cost of $1600. Background Preferential parking is a tool the City uses to manage non-resident parking on residential streets, as authorized by Santa Monica Municipal Code Chapter 3.08 and the California Vehicle Code. Preferential parking regulations manage the use of on-street parking to make parking more available for residents near their homes. Only residents who live on a block with preferential parking restrictions are eligible to purchase a permit. Permits may be used within two blocks of the permit holder’s address. 3 of 9 Residents may petition to initiate a preferential parking zone at any time. Upon receipt of a petition representing two-thirds of the residential units on a block, a parking occupancy study of the neighborhood is conducted and a community meeting is held. In evaluating petitions, staff typically evaluates the larger neighborhood, rather than an individual block, due to the potential for parking displacement when regulations are established or changed. As a result, staff typically recommends that the Council pre- approve preferential parking regulations for more than one block to streamline and expedite the process for adjacent blocks should some displacement occur. SMMC 3.08.030 provides Council with the authority to create preferential parking zones. Once Council approves preferential parking regulations, they are implemented on the blocks that have submitted qualifying petitions. Preferential parking regulations are not implemented on blocks that have been pre-approved by the Council until the time that the residents of those blocks submit qualifying petitions representing two-thirds of the residential units on the block. Discussion The residents of Lipton Avenue between Stanford and Franklin streets have submitted complete petitions requesting creation of a new preferential parking zone. The existing preferential parking regulations in the area were approved at various times in the City’s history, with the earliest zone dating back to 1986, and are not consistent from block to block. In general, the surrounding area includes different iterations of the preferential parking regulation type: “Two hour parking, except with permit.” The surrounding preferential parking regulations are:  Zone LL (to the south of Lipton Avenue) o “Two hour parking 9 A.M. – 6 P.M. Monday to Saturday, except by permit,”  Zone YY (Washington Avenue and to the south of Washington Avenue) o “Two hour parking 9 A.M. – 10 P.M., daily, except by permit,”  Zone QQ (Washington Avenue and to the south of Washington Avenue) o “Two hour parking 9 A.M. – 6 P.M., Monday to Friday, except by permit,”  Zone BB (Yale Street south of Washington Avenue) 4 of 9 o “One hour parking 9 A.M. – 6 P.M., Monday to Friday, except by permit,”  Zone TT (26th Street between Montana and Washington avenues) o “Two hour parking 9 A.M. – 10 P.M., daily, except by permit,” and  Zone D (Stanford Street south of Lipton Avenue) o “No parking all day Saturday and Sunday, No parking 9 P.M. – 2 A.M. Monday to Friday, two hour parking 9 A.M. – 6 P.M. Monday to Friday, except by permit.” The existing area regulations and petition blocks are shown in Attachment Existing parking regulations and petition blocks map. Parking demand in the area is high due to its proximity to the Wilshire Boulevard business district. An on-street parking occupancy survey for the Northeast Neighborhood area was conducted in October 2015 for both weekend and weekday time periods from 7 A.M. to 10 P.M. Due to staff turnover, there was a delay in moving forward with the initial parking study results. To confirm that the data from the study was still representative of parking usage in the area, staff conducted a follow-up study in May 2017. Based on input from residents and the Northeast Neighbors Neighborhood Organization, the area under consideration for preferential parking was subsequently expanded to include the remaining streets west of Stanford Street and east of 26th Street without preferential parking. To analyze this new area, an additional parking study was conducted in September 2017. To evaluate the effectiveness of existing regulations, the streets between Wilshire Boulevard and Lipton Avenue which currently have preferential parking regulations were included in this study. A summary of the data is included as Attachment Parking occupancy data. The following were the key findings of the studies.  Street parking usage was consistently higher during the weekday period with the highest parking usage overall occurring during the time period 9 A.M. to 6 P.M. During this time period the street parking usage was moderately high in the range of 65% to 85% with the exception of Lipton Avenue. 5 of 9  Lipton Avenue had the highest parking occupancy in the area with street parking reaching 100% usage on weekdays during the midday. The Lipton Avenue blocks are about a quarter of the length of the other blocks in the area and comparatively have a smaller supply of on-street parking available. Unlike the other blocks, a change of two to three cars parking on one of the Lipton Avenue blocks would significantly change the respective block’s parking occupancy by 10-20%.  The evening and weekend periods typically had lower parking occupancies at or below 65%; there would be at least several spaces available on each block during this time period.  The study showed that the existing “Two hour parking 9 A.M. to 6 P.M. Monday to Saturday, except by permit” regulations on blocks near Wilshire Boulevard such as Centinela Avenue and Franklin Street were effective in maintaining a substantial amount of street parking for residents throughout the day. Additionally, staff reviewed anticipated future development along Wilshire Boulevard to get an estimate of future on-street parking conditions and needs. The majority of anticipated new development would be along Wilshire Boulevard and is planned as fast casual food restaurants along with a marketplace. Both development types would be expected to generate the highest parking demand during the midday and early afternoon for the weekday and weekend. There is currently no proposal for the area that would include bars or other venues, which typically have peak parking demand in the evening. The parking data and review of proposed developments for Wilshire Boulevard indicates street parking demand is and would be in the future highest between the hours of 9 A.M. and 6 P.M. and that open street parking spaces are and would in the future be more consistently available during the evening period. Community Input Residents, businesses, property owners, and the neighborhood organization were notified of the proposed preferential parking zone by mail and invited to a July 17, 2017 community meeting at the Montana Branch Library to discuss preferential parking. At this meeting there was a request by residents and the Northeast Neighbors Community 6 of 9 organization to consider additional nearby blocks west of Stanford Street and east of 26th Street for preferential parking. A follow-up meeting was held on November 13, 2017 to discuss inclusion of this new area. The main themes from the two meetings were:  general consensus from the community that street parking is an issue on some streets, particularly on streets closer to Wilshire Boulevard, with the majority of the attendees in support of preferential parking regulations that would allow two hour parking without a permit;  there were differing opinions on the appropriate time frame for preferential parking regulations; some residents thought Monday through Friday during the day would be appropriate while others thought regulations should be daily and extend into the evening;  residents expressed concern that new development on Wilshire Boulevard would increase non-resident use of street parking during the weekend and night and make it more difficult for residents to park; and  some residents expressed that on-street parking is not an issue and that they would prefer no preferential parking regulations. A list of the comments received at the two meetings and in writing is included as Attachment Community comments. Recommended Preferential Parking Regulations The parking studies conducted in the area showed the highest parking usage between 9 A.M. and 6 P.M. Additionally, the parking study showed the existing regulations “Two hour parking 9 A.M. – 6 P.M. Monday to Saturday, except by permit” for blocks between Wilshire Boulevard and Lipton Avenue are effective in maintaining street parking spaces for residents throughout the day, and indicate that night time regulations are not necessary to maintain adequate street parking for residents. Based on this and to maintain consistency with surrounding regulations, the recommended preferential parking Zone OO would consist of the following blocks:  Centinela Avenue and Franklin Street between Lipton Avenue and the north City limit, 7 of 9  Berkeley Street between Lipton Avenue and Stanford Street,  Stanford Street between Lipton and Montana avenues,  Yale, Harvard, and Princeton streets between Washington and Montana avenues,  Lipton Avenue between Stanford Street and Centinela Avenue, and  Montana Avenue between 26th and Stanford streets. The recommended regulations are “Two hour parking 9 A.M. to 6 P.M., daily, except by permit.” The recommendation is to apply the regulations daily as the surrounding area has a variety of existing preferential parking regulation time-periods Monday to Saturday, Monday to Friday, and daily. Daily is typically the easiest for residents and visitors to understand as it is consistent day to day, and residents cited increased weekend activity for both Saturday and Sunday. For Montana Avenue, which straddles the border of Los Angeles and Santa Monica, Los Angeles residents living on the north side of the street would be eligible for parking permits similar to nearby Zone E on 26th Street. Additionally, Franklin Avenue becomes Bristol Avenue once it crosses the border between Los Angeles and Santa Monica. Preferential parking signage would not be installed on Bristol Avenue as it is controlled by Los Angeles, but to avoid area residents inadvertently getting parking tickets it is recommended that Los Angeles residents of Bristol Avenue be eligible for preferential permits. There is no clear demarcation, such as a cross street, when Franklin Street becomes Bristol Street. To a typical person Bristol Street and Franklin Street would appear to be the same street block. The Bristol Street segment is short with 12 single family residential parcels bordering the street. Alternatives The Council could maintain the existing conditions or adopt different hours and types of restrictions than those recommended. Environmental Analysis 8 of 9 The proposed project has been determined to be categorically exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), pursuant to Article 19, Section 15301 (c) which defines Class 1 exempt projects in the following way: “Class 1 consists of the operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, leasing, licensing, or minor alteration of existing public or private structures, facilities, mechanical equipment, or topographical features, involving negligible or no expansion of use beyond that existing at the time of the lead agency’s determination.” The exemption includes: “Existing highways and streets, sidewalks, gutters, bicycle and pedestrian trails, and similar facilities.” Preferential parking zones involve only the issuance of permits for the use of an existing public street and include negligible or no expansion of the existing use. Next Steps If preferential parking regulations are approved, regulations would be implemented on the 3000 and 3100 blocks of Lipton Avenue within approximately ten weeks. This allows time for residents to apply for permits, staff to process applications, signs to be ordered, manufactured, and installed, and a grace period between the installation of signs and the enforcement of preferential parking regulations. Additional blocks within the zone would have preferential parking implemented approximately ten weeks after receipt of a qualifying petition signed by residents representing two-thirds of the residential units of that block. 9 of 9 Financial Impacts and Budget Actions The approval of Preferential Parking Zone OO would generate $515 in ongoing revenues beginning FY 2017-18 from the sale of an estimated 19 new resident and visitor permits. Funds for the one-time cost related to the purchase of new signage for Preferential Parking Zone OO totaling $1600 are included in the FY 2017-18 budget in the Planning and Community Development Department. Prepared By: Scott Johnson, Transportation Planning Associate Approved Forwarded to Council Attachments: A. Existing parking regulations and petition blocks map B. Parking occupancy data C. Community comments D. Resolution E. Written Comments F. Powerpoint Presentation New Zone OO Existing & Proposed Parking Regulations Pre-Approved Preferred Parking Implemented Preferred Parking Proposed Preferred Parking Proposed Preferred Parking with Submitted Petition Block Status Weekday 7AM-9PM Legend Max Parking Occupancy 90-100% 80-89% 70-79% 60-69% 0-59% 35%50% 41% 49% 100% 106% 31% 77% 71% Wed 10.21.15 9.27.17 41% 64% 59% 85% 67% 46% 70% City Council Approved Signage Installed Requires Petition Weekend 7AM-9PM Legend Max Parking Occupancy 90-100% 80-89% 70-79% 60-69% 0-59% 35% 72% 54% 28% 43% 68% 31% SAT 10.17.15 9.23.17 41% 62% 43% 67% 52% 75% 76% 70% City Council Approved Signage Installed Requires Petition 63% Preferential Parking Community Meeting Northeast Neighborhood 7/17/17 Community Comments  Is there a development agreement associated with Bristol Farms requiring employees to park on-site. (The parcel has consistently been a grocery/marketplace throughout its history so there was never an opportunity for the city to require any type of development agreement.)  Significant amount of people park on Centinela Avenue  What is the City doing to promote transit for employees  In support of having 2hr Mon-Fri preferential parking regulations  Request to increase parking minimums for new developments  Concern about night traffic from new development  Concern about impact of new business activity  Concern about effectiveness of “2 hr parking, except with permit” preferential parking regulations  Possible to work with LA regarding properties that are in Santa Monica but border LA?  What is the deadline for pre-approval and how would you remove pre-approval of preferential parking  Request for “1 hour parking, except with permit” preferential parking regulations  What are the number of permits a resident can get  Stanford near Lipton parking historically hasn’t been a problem  Concern about speed of traffic on Stanford and concern limiting parking might make the street appear wider and increase speeding  Concern caregivers have trouble finding parking near client’s homes  Concern problems with late night establishments in the past (now closed) will return with new development on Wilshire Blvd  Should have weekend plus night preferential parking regulations  Request for City to work with business to allow more parking on-site  Concern about future development on Wilshire Boulevard impacting parking  Interested in getting traffic light for Stanford at Berkeley  Comment about disadvantages of permit parking o Signs (visual clutter) o Difficulty of dealing with permits  Concern development on Wilshire will spillover onto street  Emphasis that the entire Northeast Neighborhood should be considered together for preferential parking  2 hour regs preferential parking would allow people to have visitors without dealing with permits  Long blocks make it difficult to collect signatures b/c the northside farther away from Wilshire Blvd doesn’t have the same street parking issues  Want long blocks to be considered two separate areas for purpose of preferential parking  Interesting in waiting to see impacts on block before installation of preferential parking  See lots of employees parking on streets then going to office buildings  Issue with the preferential parking program in general Why aren’t residents allow to park on all streets in the City?  Is the program revenue generating?  Street cleaning makes parking more difficult  Long streets mean parking near Wilshire busier than closer to Montana  Concern that cars parking on Lipton will spillover to nearby streets around the corner  What are the new businesses anticipated on Wilshire Blvd? Preferential Parking Community Meeting Northeast Neighborhood 11/13/17 Community Comments  Concern about parking spillover from recent preferential parking installation on Washington Avenue  Employees park on Harvard Street between 7AM and 4/5pm (two residents commented on this)  Blocks further from Wilshire Boulevard may be impacted with preferential parking is installed on the blocks closer to Wilshire Boulevard  Residents want better enforcement of construction worker parking  Concern about development on Wilshire Boulevard impacting parking on local streets  Concern it may be more difficult to get the necessary signatures for the longer blocks in the area; resident request to split the longer blocks in two  Comment that 7am-9pm is too long a time period for preferential parking regulations  Request for 1 hour except by permit preferential parking regulations  Concern that restaurants on Wilshire Boulevard with cause evening parking issue; preference for regulations that would extend into the evening  Street cleaning days are when parking availability is the most limited  Support for pre-approving the blocks in the area to enable quick installation of regulations if parking becomes more of an issue in the future  Employees and customers should get free parking onsite at locations on Wilshire Boulevard  Preference for evening and night regulations  Parking enforcement needs to be improved  Request that the City build a parking structure on Wilshire to alleviate use of parking on local streets by employees and customers  Inquiry about the process to change preferential parking after it is installed  Preference for weekend hours due to restaurants and bars in the area  Residents anticipate needing late night and weekend regulations in anticipation for new development (staff will research what new development is proposed for the area) Scott Johnson From: Sent: To: Subject: Transportation Planning Monday, November 20, 2017 9:34 AM Scott Johnson FW: Preferential parking Sent: Monday, November 20, 2017 8:57 AM To: Transportation Planning <Transportation.Planning@SMGOV.NET> Subject: Preferential parking Good Morning, City. I live at 839 Harvard. I was unable to attend the meeting discussing the above subject due to health. However, I feel strongly enough about it to write you. NO. No to preferential parking and here's why. There are no residents in my neighborhood that I know of who has a need for semi-or private street parking other than some handicapped people. At least one of those blue curbs is never used. PUBLIC STREETS are just that and anyone should be able to park on them as long as they require the space. WE ALL PAY for those streets one way or another and should not be denied the parking on those streets. We do not live on gated, private drives. I feel the city should stop encouraging building without driveways. Forget the arguement about people getting hit by backing out cars. People could watch where they are going and stop feeling entitled to all-the right of ways in the world. Oh, yes; and get their noses out of that phone. The neighbor who came to my door yesterday and asked that I sign the. petition for permit informs me that another un needed market is going in on 26th street or there abouts, and isn't providing parking for the employees. That's on the city to make the store provide sufficient parking for both the patrons and the employees. Why didn't it?? Currently it is the office workers from Wilshire who park on our streets. I'm guessing monthly permit parking is just too costly for their wages. Of course, if I was trying to save money I wouldn't park in paid parking either but seek free street parking. It's the American way. Now, if you have read this far and not trash canned this email, I have a question. Is there any law against selling or loaning my permits to these same people that my neighbors are asking the city to deny parking that is as rightfully theirs as it is mine? 1 Vernice Hankins From:Katie Paris <katietparis@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, February 12, 2018 12:04 PM To:councilmtgitems Subject:Preferential Parking Zone OO Hello: I wanted to comment on the Preferential Parking Zone OO on Harvard Street in Santa Monica. I think it is great to have 2 hour parking from 9:00am ‐6:00pm. However, it is only necessary to do it Monday‐Friday. We do not have any parking issues on the weekends and when friends and family come over on weekends and we have parties it is an inconvenience to have to print out parking passes if you are having more than 2 people over; which we always do. We have the Monday‐Friday preferential parking on Washington Avenue and it works out fine, never any issues on the weekends. I would appreciate it if you would consider doing the same hours for Harvard as we have for Washington Avenue. Thank you very much, Katie Paris 2731 Washington Avenue Sent from Mail for Windows 10 Item 11-A 02/13/18 1 of 16 Item 11-A 02/13/18 TO: SANTA MONICA CITY COUNCIL FROM: JEFFREY LEWIS RE: PROPOSED PREFERENTIAL PARKING ZONE OO DATE: FEBRUARY 12, 2018 Dear Council Members, I am writing in opposition to the establishment of this preferential parking zone. I reside in a house immediately abutting Franklin St., Santa Monica, so close that if the boundary line between Santa Monica and Los Angeles down the middle of Montana Avenue were extended eastward, it would bisect our property. I am opposed to it on two chief grounds. I. It is entirely superfluous, and represents a kind of "arms race" between neighborhoods--"if they have one over there, we better have one too." Where I live, there is ample street parking all day long and at night as well. Photographs will confirm this. The only result of a preferential parking zone on Franklin Street, for example, will be to force cars that may have reason to be there more than two hours to park instead at the nearest place where there is no preferential zone, namely, in front of my house and my neighbors' houses along S. Bristol Avenue, the name that Franklin St. becomes when Santa Monica turns into Los Angeles. Since the S. Bristol spur is short, and Franklin St., and the adjoining Centinela, Stanford, and Berkeley Streets are long by comparison, the inevitable result will be a totally artificial parking shortage on our S. Bristol portion while the curbs on Franklin Street and adjoining are emptier than ever. Or, another undesireable possibility: we neighbors on S. Bristol, reacting defensively, petition L.A. for a preferential zone where we are, so that, in effect, L.A. cars can't park in Santa Monica and Santa Monica cars can't park in Los Angeles. This would be an absurd result, especially, as I've said, and is demonstrable, there is no parking shortage on either portion of our shared street. Item 11-A 02/13/18 2 of 16 Item 11-A 02/13/18 2. It is unneighborly. It is one more little ding in the social fabric. If I could, I would eliminate all preferential parking zones in the metro area, except perhaps those that alleviate congestion immediately adjacent to busy commercial avenues. But of course I can't. But would it be too much to hope that this unwelcome scourge of "I-got-mine-ism" be at least modestly controlled before it expands into ever more unnecessary parts of our communities? Before I lived where I do now, I lived in Ocean Park. I was drawn to Santa Monica by many things, but in good part its neighborliness, its openness, its absence of "gated community" sensibility. I fear that this is becoming increasingly in short supply in the Santa Monica of today, and these preferential parking zones are one more evidence of it--"if you don't belong here, get out." In a sense, such zones even represent an advance on the "gated community" sensibility. The gates simply say "this is private." The parking zones say "and while we're at it, we'll privatize a part of the public streets too." I don't want where I live turning into Newport Beach. I believe you shouldn't and don't, either. And I would not like to think that this creeping privatization is some sort of covert reaction to the extension of the Expo Line. It is unfortunately not enough to say, "well, the neighbors on each block can decide whether they want this or not." There is no reason for anybody to say no. On an individual basis, it presents itself as a no cost option. The so- called "tragedy of the commons" is at work here, where each person acting in his or her perceived self-interest creates an aggregate harm. Only an action by the larger community can prevent the harm. Please do not approve this new zone. Sincerely yours, Jeffrey Lewis 741 S. Bristol Ave. Los Angeles, CA P.S. The supporting photographs were taken on Monday, February 12, 2018--which is not a street cleaning day in our neighborhood--just past noon. The first several are of Franklin Street and S. Bristol, looking both north and south, and covering both sides of the Franklin hill. There are then one each of the west side of Centinela where parking is allowed, looking Item 11-A 02/13/18 3 of 16 Item 11-A 02/13/18 south from approximately Montana, and of Stanford and Berkeley looking south from approximately Montana. Ample parking everywhere. Item 11-A 02/13/18 4 of 16 Item 11-A 02/13/18 1 Scott Johnson From:Jeffrey Lewis <jefflewis@earthlink.net> Sent:Monday, February 12, 2018 2:37 PM To:Transportation Planning Subject:Preferential Parking Meeting Notice Attachments:LETTER TO S.M. CITY COUNCIL RE PARKING, 2.12.18.docx Dear People, Per the notice I received, I would like the attached statement and supporting photographs presented to the City Council members for consideration of the proposed Preferential Parking Zone OO. Thank you. Sincerely yours, Jeffrey Lewis Item 11-A 02/13/18 5 of 16 Item 11-A 02/13/18 2 Item 11-A 02/13/18 6 of 16 Item 11-A 02/13/18 3 Item 11-A 02/13/18 7 of 16 Item 11-A 02/13/18 1 Scott Johnson From:Scott Johnson Sent:Monday, February 12, 2018 4:27 PM To:'Vivian Mcnulty' Subject:RE: Preferential parking on Harvard Street Vivian, Thank you for your comments stating your concerns about the impact of preferential parking regulations on the streets in your area. They will be forwarded to City Council for consideration. The regulations recommended, aim to strike a balance between the residents who requested more strict regulations and those that would like to have limited or no preferential parking regulations. The recommended regulations are one of the least restrictive options and would allow 2 hour parking without a permit between the hours of 9AM‐6PM, and long term unpermitted parking outside of those hours. The recommended regulations are based on the parking study that showed that 9AM to 6PM was the time period with the highest street parking usage. Please note that if City Council decides to approve the proposed regulations preferential parking would only be installed on a block if 2/3rds of the residents on the block sign in support. As you note in your email your block of Harvard between Montana Avenue and Washington Avenue has submitted a petition with the necessary signatures. If residents on your block who initially signed are now not in favor of preferential parking regulations please have them contact me, and I can remove their respective signatures. Before any regulations are installed I’ll also be sending out an initial notification letter where residents will have another opportunity to officially withdraw their support. If a sufficient amount of residents remove their signature so the support drops below 67% then installation would not proceed. The aim of the preferential parking program is give the residents of each block through super‐majority vote the power to decide if preferential parking regulations are appropriate for their block. Best, Scott Johnson, AICP Transportation Planning Associate City of Santa Monica | Mobility Division 1685 Main Street | Room 115 | Santa Monica, CA 90401 PH 310.458.2201 ext. 5743 From: Vivian Mcnulty [mailto:vgmcnulty@verizon.net] Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2018 12:20 PM To: Transportation Planning <Transportation.Planning@SMGOV.NET> Subject: Preferential parking on Harvard Street NO. No preferential parking on my street or the nearby streets. EVERY house should have a driveway which allows at least 2 parking spots. GARAGES are great!! They provide a place to store many things or can be turned into a second small home with the blessing of Santa Monica. A high percentage of garages are used for storage of non-car items while all the family vehicles are parked on the street. This can be five or six cars from just two houses on this block alone. So much for the less than realistic Santa Monica idea of no driveways. Aside from those obvious points I am making an even more obvious point which is somehow being totally overlooked. Item 11-A 02/13/18 8 of 16 Item 11-A 02/13/18 2 IT'S a public street not a private gated community, therefore, parking should be allowed as needed. My observation is that my neighbors leave for work and return home at about the same times that the workers in the Wilshire buildings arrive and depart. There is really very little problem. People seem to think they are entitled to the extras that we all pay for one way or another. I have talked to a few neighbors regarding this and much to my astonishment they have signed the petition to have limited parking EVEN THOUGH they are against it. Don't want to fight city hall. It's the herd mentality, or, following the lemmings over the cliff. It's no wonder Santa Monica and it's councils who need to control people can do so. Yes, and about this SM drive to get everyone except the entitled to ride the bus, bikes, and the metro, -- you'r talking to a lot of us old folks who can't do any of those things. I personally don't shop anywhere beyond the 13th street post office because I can't walk that concrete and get to the promenade to shop. I have to go elsewhere. I'm not alone in this. Vivian McNulty 839 Harvard Item 11-A 02/13/18 9 of 16 Item 11-A 02/13/18 1 Vernice Hankins From:Scott Johnson Sent:Tuesday, February 13, 2018 9:59 AM To:councilmtgitems Subject:11.A Establishment of Preferential Parking Zone OO ‐‐‐‐‐Original Message‐‐‐‐‐ From: Christopher Armstrong [mailto:christopherjarmstrong@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 12, 2018 8:55 PM To: Transportation Planning <Transportation.Planning@SMGOV.NET> Subject: Preferential Parking Meeting Notice To whom it may concern, I wanted to send a note to confirm my support of preferential parking on Harvard Street between Washington and Montana. Best regards, Chris Armstrong 937 Harvard Street Santa Monica, CA 90403 Item 11-A 02/13/18 10 of 16 Item 11-A 02/13/18 1 Vernice Hankins From:Scott Johnson Sent:Tuesday, February 13, 2018 11:25 AM To:councilmtgitems Subject:FW: Preferential Parking Zone OO comment Forwarded comment received 2/12 for City Council Item 11.A Establishment of Preferential Parking Zone OO Scott Johnson, AICP Transportation Planning Associate City of Santa Monica | Mobility Division 1685 Main Street | Room 115 | Santa Monica, CA 90401 PH 310.458.2201 ext. 5743 From: Golden, Richard [mailto:Richard.Golden@wolterskluwer.com] Sent: Monday, February 12, 2018 6:21 PM To: Transportation Planning <Transportation.Planning@SMGOV.NET> Subject: Preferential Parking Zone OO comment We are 18 year residents who live on Centinela Avenue, just south of Montana Avenue, within the potential Preferential Parking Zone OO. In general, near our residence, during the proposed regulated time, there is adequate parking within a reasonable walking distance, even though there is legal parking only on the west side of the street. Most of the spaces that are taken are familiar vehicles of nearby residents and their guests. The shape of the lots on the North part of Centinela Avenue often leaves substantial gaps between driveways, enhancing the number of spaces per residence. Where Centinela Avenue intersects Montana Avenue, Only 3300, 3304, 3308, and 3312 Montana Avenue are within Santa Monica City Limits, to the West of 3300 Montana Avenue for several blocks and to the east of 3312 Montana Avenue until Beverly Hills are City of Los Angeles addresses. I think it would be unfair to push one city’s problem onto the next city. Even allowing for commercial and other exempt uses, permits granted residents, and the availability of guest permits and temporary permits, there would still be an inconvenience for residents having a spontaneous event. Item 11-A 02/13/18 11 of 16 Item 11-A 02/13/18 2 Over the years, I have walked my children to their schools and have on occasion seen hospital-uniformed, or grocery store- uniformed workers parking on residential streets, but never on Centinela Avenue. The same can be said for joggers or people offloading bicycles. I realize that expansion of nearby parking zones may push non- residential parkers into the zone, but I don’t anticipate they would park much beyond the border of the newer zones, it at all. If the zone were adopted, the remaining people who preferred parking on the street to using a parking lot of a Wilshire Boulevard business, would presumably park on Montana Avenue. The intersection of Montana and Centinela Avenues without regard to parking, but for normal driving is already taxing and dangerous. https://www.google.com/maps/place/807+Centinela+Ave,+Santa+Monic a,+CA+90403/@34.0463494,- 118.4780372,3a,75y,105.29h,81.85t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s4ccQdBLdbd s_M- nox70HIA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3D4ccQdBLdbds _M- nox70HIA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps% 26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D340.9173%26pitch%3D0%26t humbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192!4m5!3m4!1s0x80c2bb5720c57069:0x9adf 79db0c28a565!8m2!3d34.0462245!4d-118.4775093 You can see northbound Centinela where it terminates at Montana, at the above link. Consider that a vehicle stopping at the limit line has no visibility of the sidewalk to the east because of the curvature of Montana Avenue. Traffic can only safely proceed a two-step process: 1. Stopping at the limit line, and then inching forward to clear sidewalk traffic in each direction every few inches of travel until the vehicle driver can determine that there are no walkers, runners, skateboarders, or bicyclists. This process takes at least eight seconds, and, 2. Checking traffic in the street. Many drivers do not adjust their normal stop sign behavior to accommodate this intersection. Adding drivers looking for spaces, emerging from spaces, making U-turns would make an already difficult intersection even more difficult. Item 11-A 02/13/18 12 of 16 Item 11-A 02/13/18 3 Please defer adoption of this district. Richard and Nancy Golden Item 11-A 02/13/18 13 of 16 Item 11-A 02/13/18 1 Vernice Hankins From:Scott Johnson Sent:Tuesday, February 13, 2018 11:33 AM To:councilmtgitems Subject:11.A Establishment of Preferential Parking Zone OO Forward of comment received 2/13 for City Council Item 11.A Establishment of Preferential Parking Zone OO Scott Johnson, AICP Transportation Planning Associate City of Santa Monica | Mobility Division 1685 Main Street | Room 115 | Santa Monica, CA 90401 PH 310.458.2201 ext. 5743 From: Zina Markevicius [mailto:zinamarkevicius@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 9:51 AM To: Transportation Planning <Transportation.Planning@SMGOV.NET> Subject: Proposed preferential parking Dear Council Members and City Staff: We are writing to oppose establishment of a new preferential parking zone OO. We are residents of 817 Yale Street since 2002 and do not see a need for it, particularly north of Washington. First, we have never been unable to find street parking. This is true even during street cleaning and on all days of the week, all times of day. The streets around us, including Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and Montana, are often wide open with hundreds of feet of empty space. It can look like street cleaning day, even when it's not street cleaning day. We have taken photos if it is helpful. Visitors to our home have never mentioned difficulty parking, nor have our neighbors. We have never seen people parking in our area to leave and go to work, unless they are working on our street. Second, some residents may be annoyed when they cannot find parking right in front of their own homes. This is not a reason for the whole neighborhood to have to use permits. Also, few of our neighbors use their own garages. This is again not a reason to impose permits on all. Since the issue of permits was raised a few months ago, we have actively visited and watched the parking situation north of Washington, in case we had not seen problems further away from us. As mentioned, there is usually lots of empty parking throughout this area, allowing persons to park very near their homes or across the street. We understand that the situation south of Washington is different, more affected by commercial visitors. Yet we trust the City to ensure adequate parking for workers and visitors to new developments such as Erewhon and the corner of Stanford and Wilshire. Finally, there is a significant inconvenience in daily life in using of preferential permits. We have a lot of people coming and going to our neighborhood to work or visit, and the back and forth of permits can be stressful. Our friends in permit zones do not like them, and they limit free flow of activity in these areas. Item 11-A 02/13/18 14 of 16 Item 11-A 02/13/18 2 We respectfully request that the Council vote against moving forward on this new OO zone. Particularly north of Washington, there is no parking problem, and we do not want the burden of dealing with permits when there is no need or benefit. Thank you, Zina Markevicius & Ryan Kinrade 817 Yale Street Santa Monica, CA 90403 Item 11-A 02/13/18 15 of 16 Item 11-A 02/13/18 1 Vernice Hankins From:Transportation Planning Sent:Tuesday, February 13, 2018 3:04 PM To:councilmtgitems Subject:FW: Preferential Parking Zone Attachments:IMG_0652.JPG; ATT00001.txt Forward of message regarding City Council Item 11.A Preferential Parking Zone OO ‐‐‐‐‐Original Message‐‐‐‐‐ From: Webster, Pamela [mailto:PWEBSTER@buchalter.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 2:04 PM To: Transportation Planning <Transportation.Planning@SMGOV.NET> Subject: FW: Preferential Parking Zone We reside at 933 Harvard. We support a Preferential Parking Zone for our block. As the police records will reflect, we have had to call twice to have cars towed that blocked our driveway preventing us from going to work in the morning. We have also had to drive over the curb in order to avoid cars that encroached on our driveway. The parkers all work at the medical office building at Wilshire and Harvard that has a large parking garage. We’ve never had a problem with our neighbors blocking our driveway. Only when we posted the unattractive sign attached did the blocking stop although we still have to deal with encroachment. We would like to be able to take down this sign and not worry about our access to and from our own driveway. Thank you Pamela Webster and Rick Cohen. Notice To Recipient: This e‐mail is meant for only the intended recipient of the transmission, and may be a communication privileged by law. If you received this e‐mail in error, any review, use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e‐mail is strictly prohibited. Please notify us immediately of the error by return e‐mail and please delete this message and any and all duplicates of this message from your system. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. For additional policies governing this e‐mail, please see http://www.buchalter.com/about/firm‐policies/. Item 11-A 02/13/18 16 of 16 Item 11-A 02/13/18 Esta blishment of Preferential Pa rking Zo ne OO Fe bruary 13, 2018 Item 11-A Establish Zone OO Existing Parking Regulations Pre-Approved Preferential Parking Implemented Preferential Parking Block Status N Proposed Parking Regulations N No Petition Submitted Petition Submitted Block Status REFERENCE: Resolution No. 11099 (CCS)