CC RES 2012-046RESOLUTION NO. 2012 -46
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS
VERDES ESTABLISHING PERMIT PARKING ON VARIOUS STREETS IN THE
PENINSULA VERDE NEIGHBORHOOD.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES DOES
HEREBY FIND, ORDER AND RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
WHEREAS, Chapter 10.20 of the Rancho Palos Verdes Municipal Code
authorizes the City Council to establish permit parking in areas in the City by resolution
pursuant to the authority provided by California Vehicle Code Section 22507; and
WHEREAS, Harbor Hills Public Housing Development in Lomita is located just to
the north of the Peninsula Verde neighborhood, and non - residents of this development
have been observed parking their vehicles, including inoperable and abandoned vehicles,
for long periods of time on the streets within the Peninsula Verde area. These parked
vehicles are interfering with street sweeping and trash collection activities and are
precluding residents who live in this area from being able to park vehicles in front of their
homes, which is causing a deterioration of their residential quality of life; and
WHEREAS, the residents along Peninsula Verde Drive, Lunada Circle Drive and
Circle Verde Drive have requested the City to regulate the parking in this neighborhood to
address the parking problems associated residents of other areas parking cars on these
streets; and
WHEREAS, the establishment of permit parking everyday, 24 -hours a day, is
intended to reduce parking impacts along these streets created by nonresident vehicular
parking, and is necessary to provide reasonably available and convenient parking for the
benefit of residents who live on these streets and their guests.
NOW, THEREFORE THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS
VERDES DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AND ORDER AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Required Findings. The City Council finds that the establishment of
a permit parking area for Peninsula Verde Drive, Lunada Circle Drive and Circle Verde
Drive everyday, 24 hours a day, is necessary to provide parking on these streets for the
residents who live there and eliminate the disruption of City street sweeping services and
trash collection services that is caused by long term parking of nonresident vehicles on
these streets. These adverse impacts have resulted in deterioration of the residential
quality and character of the Peninsula Verde neighborhood to the detriment of its
residents and their property values. For these reasons, the City Council finds that the
establishment of a permit parking area for the streets listed in Section 2 of this Resolution
is necessary to avoid the adverse impacts upon the adjacent residential area indicated
above and to provide reasonably available and convenient parking for the benefit of the
residents along these streets throughout the day and evening.
Section 2. Designation of Permit Parking Area. Based upon the findings in
Section 1, the following areas are designated for permit parking:
Peninsula Verde Drive (both sides from Western Ave. to the end of street)
Lunada Circle Drive (both sides from Peninsula Verde Dr. to end of street)
Circle Verde Drive (both sides from Peninsula Verde Dr. to end of street)
Section 3. Designation of Parking Restrictions. Pursuant to Section 22507 of
the Vehicle Code, the permit parking restrictions on the portions of the streets listed in
Section 2 above in the Peninsula Verde neighborhood shall be as follows:
No parking except by permit only.
Section 4. Posting of Signs. The parking prohibitions contained in Section 3 of
this Resolution shall not become effective until signs have been posted giving adequate
notice of the parking restrictions imposed by this resolution. The Director of Public Works
is hereby authorized to erect such signs. Vehicles that are parked without displaying the
required permit may be towed pursuant Vehicle Code Section 22651(n).
Section 5. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this
Resolution.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 3rd day of July 2012.
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ATTEST:
"7cf.,%-!7 ity Clerk
State of California )
County of Los Angeles ) ss
City of Rancho Palos Verdes )
I, Carla Morreale, City Clerk of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes, hereby
certify that the above Resolution No. 2012 -46, was duly and regularly passed and
adopted by the said City Council at a regular meeting thereof held on July 3, 2012.
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'Dc u, City Clerk
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