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Recommendation to receive supporting documentation, including resident ballot summary, into the record, conclude the public hearing, and request City Attorney to prepare an amendment to the Long Beach Municipal Code, to establish Preferential Parking District “AD” as recommended by the City Traffic Engineer.
(District 5)
DISCUSSION
Residents on the east side of Clark Avenue and adjacent streets, south of Heartwell Park, contacted the City in 2014, expressing concerns about the negative parking situation in their neighborhood, caused by construction projects occurring at the Long Beach City College (LBCC) campus, on the west side of Clark Avenue. Construction workers, as well as college students, were parking in the neighborhood, severely impacting the residents’ parking. In order to address these parking impacts, the City implemented a temporary construction preferential parking district on June 1, 2014. Parking restriction signs were posted along the streets closest to the LBCC campus.
The temporary construction parking district (district), as defined in the Long Beach Municipal Code (LBMC), section 10.33.030, specifies the maximum duration for the district as eighteen (18) months, or when the construction that is causing the parking problem ends. For this neighborhood, the City Traffic Engineer determined that the district would be terminated at the end of 2015. However, residents have expressed concern regarding the growing number of students parking in their neighborhood caused by the LBCC college expansion. Residents fear that parking impacts will return if parking restriction signs are removed. They have requested to proceed with the process to implement a permanent preferential parking district, authorized by the LBMC section 10.32.010, and conform to the requirements stated therein.
Before the implementation of the temporary parking district, the traffic engineering staff conducted parking surveys, demonstrating that the parking requirements w...
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