TITLE
Recommendation to request City Attorney to prepare an amendment to the Long Beach Municipal Code, to conduct a Pilot Program for the use of multi-space parking meters on Bay Street west of Pine Avenue and on Pine Avenue north of Bay Street at The Pike in downtown Long Beach. (District 2)
DISCUSSION
Public Works will be conducting a three-month demonstration project of five multi-space pay-and-display parking meters at The Pike beginning April I O , 2006. This demonstration project was developed to address the challenge of patrons wishing to park at the meters in The Pike area where the rate is set at $2 per hour.
Presently, parking for the two-hour maximum time limit requires that 16 quarters be deposited into a parking meter. The multi-space parking meters will provide more flexible payment options by accepting Mastercard and VISA credit and debit cards, as well as coins, which will provide greater convenience for motorists.
One multi-space parking pay station will take the place of five to ten on-street parking meters. These parking pay stations require motorists to purchase a receipt indicating the date and the time the rece’ipt will expire. The receipt must be placed in the driver-side car window, which will be monitored by Parking Enforcement.
For the demonstration project, four meters will be placed on Bay Street west of Pine Avenue, and one will be placed on the west side of Pine Avenue north of Bay Street. These locations were selected for the demonstration project due to the high volume of coins collected from the individual meters at these locations. The five multi-space meters ‘will take the place of 25 individual meters currently located in the area.
Currently, the Municipal Code defines a parking meter as “any device which, when the recording dial thereof is set in motion by the deposit of any coin or equivalent thereof, or the operation of any actuating device, registers the time that any vehicle is parked adjacent to the parking meter....
Click here for full text