In another effort to garner support for its proposal to extend parking meter hours in commercial areas, the city’s Parking Division is hosting a discussion with local business owners.
The meeting will be held Jan. 24 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Community Meeting Room at the West Hollywood Public Library, on San Vicente Boulevard south of Santa Monica. The Parking Division will present its plans and an explanation of them and invite comment.
The proposed meter hour extension would require use of meters on Sundays in most commercial areas. It also would extent meter hours most other days of the week, with times varying by commercial district. The city has published a map showing the proposed hours and the streets to which they would apply.
The Parking Division argues that extended meter hours would increase turnover at parking meters, where some drivers park for long hours when the meter isn’t in operation rather than using a parking garage. Such turnover, the division says, would be good for local businesses and shoppers.
The city council postponed action on the division’s proposal when local residents and business people objected to it at a council meeting earlier this month. The council is expected to take up the proposal again next month.
At least one business is in favor. I hope this doesn’t mean that the Hudson will be allowed to stop paying for a dedicated security guard at the corner of norton and crescent heights which is the only thing that keeps loud drunk peeple from walking into the residential neighborhood nearby… ___________________________________ Hello All, On Monday, April 1st the City’s Public Works department will be proposing the parking meter extended hoursand Sundays at the standing City Council meeting for Council approval. I had lunch with Paul, the city manager, and he agreed to use a portion of the budget to… Read more »
@Concerned Citizen, They did not get the answer they wanted from the public or some businesses so now they are holding another special meeting to listen to why the city needs a different answer? I should think the staff had to call business owners to come to this. Wonder what they are being promised if they back the city on this? Did the buisness owners vote to have all those spaces on San Vicente removed? If they had 3 hours free in the new parking structures maybe people would want to park in there. It’s kind of like if Mommy… Read more »
@Concerned – If at first you don’t succeed try, try again, must be the city’s motto. It’s about money and not about helping businesses but it looks as if the first answers they got from the residents and some businesses was not to their liking so it appears that they will get on the phone and “persuade” businesses to come to another meeting and hear the long, drawn out study by some highly paid consultant. Wonder want “incentives” they are offering the business owners to attend this meeting and speak in favor of the plan that does not have community… Read more »
WHAT? So, wait, “when local residents and business people objected to it at a council meeting earlier this month” is not enough for them? When the public doesn’t want something the City runs to its “special interests” the businesses, to try and get backing? Did the businesses have any input into the decision to take away dozens of parking spaces on San Vicente to try and force people to park in the expensive new City-owned structure? What is going on here?