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Recommendation to receive supporting documentation, including the petitions, into the record; conclude the public hearing; and request City Attorney to prepare an amendment to the Long Beach Municipal Code, modifying Preferential Parking District "I" to include Rendina Street between Palo Verde Avenue and Iroquois Avenue as recommended by the City Traffic Engineer. (District 3)
DISCUSSION
Residents of the La Marina Estates neighborhood, residing on Rendina Street between
Palo Verde Avenue and Iroquois Avenue in the vicinity of California State University,
Long Beach (CSULB), have requested an expansion of Preferential Parking District "I"
to include Rendina Street from Palo Verde Avenue to Iroquois Avenue. The residents
have requested: 1) the implementation of preferential parking to allow for exemption
from the existing one-hour parking restriction; and 2) a change in the hours during which
the one-hour parking restriction is in effect on this portion of Rendina Street (from 9:00
A.M. to 4:OO P.M. to between the hours of 9:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M.). The affected street
segments are highlighted on the vicinity map included as Attachment A.
Section 10.32.020.C of the Long Beach Municipal Code states that the City Council
shall determine if an area is to be designated for preferential parking based upon the
following criteria:
* 75 percent of the legal on-street parking spaces must be occupied by motor
vehicles during the period proposed for parking restrictions.
* 50 percent of the vehicles parked on the streets during the period proposed for
parking restrictions must be non-resident vehicles.
* The district, alone or in combination with other existing or potential preferential
parking districts, constitutes a reasonably self-contained area of parking demand
and supply.
* In cases where a time limit parking restriction or prohibition is already in place,
the City Traffic Engineer shall use reasonable judgment as to whether the
demand criteria would likely be met without the restriction or prohibition.
Based on the close proximity of the subject portion of Rendina Street to the CSULB
campus, as well as input received from nearby residents, the City Traffic Engineer
determined that the subject portion of Rendina Street would satisfy the aforementioned
criteria as required for the establishment of preferential parking if the existing one-hour
parking restriction was not currently in effect at this location.
Attachment B is a copy of the petition submitted by the residents on Rendina Street
between Palo Verde Avenue and Iroquois Avenue, formally requesting the expansion of
Preferential Parking District I to include this portion of the street. A review of the petition
revealed that 100 percent of the residents on these street blocks of Rendina Street
support the district expansion. Upon the approval of this item by the City Council and
following the effective date of the ordinance, preferential parking will be implemented on
the aforementioned sections of Rendina Street.
Contingent upon City Council approval, it is recommended that the City Attorney be
requested to prepare the following modification to Section 10.32.1 10 of the Long Beach
Municipal Code to read as follows:
"District I: Iroquois Avenue between Deleon Street and Rendina Street; Hackett
Avenue between Anaheim Road and El Roble Street; Deleon Street from Palo
Verde Avenue to the cul-de-sac; Josie Avenue between Deleon Street and
Rendina Street; Espanita Street between Josie Avenue and the end of Espanita
Street approximately seven hundred fifty feet (750') east of Josie Avenue; El
Jardin Street between Hackett Avenue and Knoxville Avenue; Mantova Street
between Hackett Avenue and Knoxville Avenue; Knoxville Avenue between El
Jardin Street and Mantova Street; El Roble Street between Hackett Avenue and
Iroquois Avenue; and Rendina Street between Palo Verde Avenue and Iroquois
Ave n u e; "
This letter was reviewed by Deputy City Attorney Lisa Peskay Malmsten on December
7,2005, and Budget Management Officer David Wodynski on November 16,2005.
TIMING CONSIDERATIONS
City Council action on this matter is not time critical.
FISCAL IMPACT
The cost of materials and installation for the preferential parking controls is estimated at
$1,500. Sufficient funds are budgeted in the Capital Improvement Project PWT300 in
the Capital Projects Fund (CP) in the Department of Public Works (PW) to support this
activity.
SUGGESTED ACTION
Approve recommendation.
Respectfully Submitted,
[Respectfully Submitted,]