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MEMORANDUM
HONORABLE MAYOR &CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS
TOM ODOM,DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORK(J~
JULY 3,2012
ESTABLISH PERMIT PARKING ON VARIOUS
STREETS IN THE PENINSULA VERDE
NEIGHBORHOOD (SUPPORTS 2012 CITY COUNCIL
GOAL #1,PUBLIC SAFETY AND TRAFFIC ISSUES -
FOCUS ON TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT)
REVIEWED:CAROLYN LEHR,CITY MANAGER C!9.--
Project Manager:Nicole Jules,Senior Engineer 'Y'rJ"
RECOMMENDATION
ADOPT RESOLUTION NO.2012-_A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES ESTABLISHING PERMIT PARKING ON
VARIOUS STREETS IN THE PENINSULA VERDE NEIGHBORHOOD.
BACKGROUND
The Peninsula Verde Neighborhood,which consists of Peninsula Verde Drive,Lunada
Circle Drive and Circle View Drive,is located at the most northerly limit of the City along
Western Avenue near the City's boundary adjacent to the City of Lomita.It is north of
Green Hills Memorial Park and south of Harbor Hills Public Housing Development.All
streets in the Peninsula Verde Neighborhood are RPV public streets.A map of the area
is included in the appendix.
In a series of email correspondences beginning in November 2011 , a resident on
Peninsula Verde Drive expressed an interest in the permit parking program as a means
to help alleviate traffic impacts associated with activities directly related to the Harbor
Hills Public Housing Development.
After the initial complaint,staff began conducting site visits to better understand the
issues.On three separate occasions,it was observed that Harbor Hills'residents
routinely park operational,inoperable and abandoned vehicles,for extended periods of
time along Peninsula Verde Drive.Often times,these vehicles would interfere with
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trash collection and street sweeping as well as attracting a negative element and
questionable criminal activity at odd periods of the night.Instituting a parking permit
program in this neighborhood would improve safety and restore the RPV character to
the streets in the Peninsula Verde neighborhood.
After much consideration,field observation,increased enforcement and communication
with the school administration,staff and the TSC conclude establishing residential
permit parking on various streets around the school will mitigate parking related impacts
that are a direct result of Harbor Hills Public Housing Development activities.
The Peninsula Verde neighborhood has formally requested that the City establish a
permit parking program on Peninsula Verde Drive,Lunada Circle Drive and Circle View
Drive to enable residents in this area as well as their guests the opportunity of parking
and accessing their driveways on a regular basis.
DISCUSSION
In accordance with Municipal Code Chapter 10.20,a neighborhood may apply for permit
parking with a minimum 60%approval by residents.A petition signed by at least 60%
of the affected residents was received and verified.Staff conducted a field survey and
has determined that permit parking would be appropriate for this area.Copies of email
correspondence and petition are included as an attachment.
The permit parking would apply to the following streets,every day of the week,24 hours
a day:
Peninsula Verde Drive
Lunada Circle Drive
Circle View Drive
(both sides from Western Ave.to end of street)
(both sides from Peninsula Verde Dr.to end of street)
(both sides from Peninsula Verde Dr.to end of street)
The conditions and terms of the permit parking program in the Peninsula Verde
neighborhood are in the attached Resolution No.2012-xxx.
FISCAL IMPACT
Adopting staff's recommendation will result in an impact to the FY 2012-2013 budget.
The costs associated with establishing this program is approximately $1,600 which
funds the production and installation of the permit parking signs.Funding for these
costs is available in the FY 2012-2013 Traffic Management Program budget that was
adopted at the June 19,2012 City Council meeting.
Attachments:
Peninsula Verde Neighborhood Site Map
Resolution No.2011-_A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES ESTABLISHING PERMIT
PARKING ON VARIOUS STREETS IN THE ROLLING HILLS RIVIERA
NEIGHBORHOOD
Email correspondence
Traffic petition to establish permit parking in the Peninsula Verde
neighborhood
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Peninsula Verde
Neighborhood Permit Parking Request
Site Map
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RESOLUTION NO.2012-_
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 View 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 View
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
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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
Lunada Circle Drive
Circle View Drive
(both sides from Western Ave.to the end of street)
(both sides from Peninsula Verde Dr.to end of street)
(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 __day of 2012.
ANTHONY MISETICH,Mayor
ATTEST:
CARLA MORREALE,City Clerk
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State of California )
Cou nty 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-_,was duly and regularly passed and
adopted by the said City Council at a regular meeting thereof held on ,2012.
CARLA MORREALE,City Clerk
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Nicole Jules
From:Carolyn Lehr [clehr@rpv.com]
Sent:Thursday,March 01,2012 3:29 PM
To:'Nicole Jules'
Cc:jim.knight@rpv.com;'Tom Odom';'Carolynn Petru'
Subject:FW:Non-resident parking on Peninsula Verde Dr.
Nicole,
Can you please evaluate this issue with regard to best strategy for resolution?I have
copied CP in case we need to look at increased enforcement of the 72 hour parking
restriction,but there are potentially several causes that the resident points out for the
parking problem.
Please keep.Councilman Knight in the loop,and reference his name if you contact the
resident directly so he knows how we learned of the issue.Thanks Nicole!
Thank you,
CCU--~VlI LehY
City Manager
D City of Rancho Palos Verdes
30940 Hawthorne Blvd.
Rancho Palos Verdes,CA 90275
c1ehr@rpv.com -(310)544-5202
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From:Jim Knight [mailto:knightjim33@gmail.com]
sent:Thursday,February 09,2012 3:00 PM
To:Michael Alford
Cc:carolyn Lehr
Subject:Re:Non-resident parking on Peninsula Verde Dr.
Micheal
If!remember correctly,you had expressed interest in serving on one of the City's Commission
or Committees of which I fully encouraged you to explore those opportunities and put your
application in.
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I will forward your concerns to our City Manager so that our staff can further explore possible solutions
to your parking issues.Either staff or I will get back to you as to what is possible to find a solution.
Best regards,
Jim Knight
RPV City Council
On Wed,Feb 8,2012 at 11 :49 PM,Michael Alford <alfordO l@hotmail.com>wrote:
Mr.Knight,
Due to your many hours of walking the city before the election,I doubt that you would
remember meeting me when you came by my house at 1856 Peninsula Verde Dr.However,it
may jog your memory to tell you that I am a patent attorney and that you and I spoke at length
about various planning issues (Marymount,Annenberg,etc.).You asked for my vote (which
you received)and asked if I had any issues that I wanted to discuss with you,which I did not.
Since then,an issue has worsened for our neighborhood that requires some attention ..
You must certainly be aware of Harbor Hills residents parking along Western and Palos
Verdes Dr.N.,and you may have already been made aware of the issue of these residents
parking on Peninsula Verde Dr.My wife and I have lived here for two years, and we have
seen that the problem has worsened in the past few months.I realize that some of this has
been due to the temporary closure of the Harbor Hills parking lots,but that does not fully
explain the consistent increase in the number of non-homeowner cars parked on our street.
As you may have heard,the problem is exacerbated by the unfortunate combination of
EDCO's'waste pickup and the street sweeping on Western both occurring on Friday mornings.
Several negative effects occur due to Harbor Hills residents parking on Peninsula Verde Dr.:
1)Noisy,dirty,and seldom used cars are parked along Peninsula Verde Dr.at all times (such
as the '70s era Camaro parked in front of our house right now,the engine of which was being
revved very high and for a long time earlier this evening but now sits quietly and smelling of
gasoline).
2)Excessive noise occurs as several cars are moved into our area late on Thursday nights to
remove them from Western.
3)Harbor Hills residents park in areas needed by homeowners to place their EDCO carts at
the curb,and this leads to homeowners placing carts out days before pickup day to ensure a
space for them.
I suspect that the source of our problem lies with residency and/or parking rules at Harbor
Hills.The entire parking problem may stem from unauthorized residents,but it is definitely
compounded by the number of cars per unit.For example,at least two Harbor Hills residents
park multiple cars on out street,and one of them has had as many as three at a time.
It appeared recently that Sheriff's deputies have been more aggressive about ticketing cars
that have not been moved within 72 hours,but this has little effect.Most of the Harbor Hills
residents seem to be aware that they must move their vehicles,and they make the minimum
effort to move them to another place on Peninsula Verde Dr.
I have spoken to several neighbors about this problem,and we are aware that a permitted
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parking option is available.However,the problems exist primarily near Western (our house is
10 houses up from Western),which will limit the concern and participation of homeowners that
live farther from the problem areas.
I ask that you please look into what can be done to limit the number of non-homeowner cars
parked on our street.This may include discussions with Harbor Hills management and/or
HACoLA and should include consideration of changing the EDCO schedule or asking that the
day of street sweeping on Western be changed.Perhaps a city law exists or can be enacted
to limit non-resident storage of a vehicle on a street?
Thanks for your help,and you may contact me anytime at mb
Mike Alford
1856 Peninsula Verde Dr.
mb
Jim Knight
RPV City Council
30940 Hawthorne Blvd.
RPV,CA 90275
310/544-5207
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TRAFFICIPARKINGPETITION
We,the undersigned,desire,agree with,and request the following:
a parking permit program to be established for the Peninsula Verde
neighborhood,including Peninsula Verde Drive,Lunada Circle,and
Circle Verde Drive,to eliminate the impact Q.;L..overflow parking by
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I understand the proposed traffic request may have a direct impact on my property.By signing this
petition,I acknowledge that I have read the detailed description of the traffic/parking request being
proposed.
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TRAFFICIPARKING PETITION
We,the undersigned,desire,agree with,and request the following:
__._.a parking permit program to be established for the Peninsula Verde
neighborhood,including Peninsula Verde Drive,Lunada_Circle,and
Circle Verde Drive,to eliminate the impact of overflow parking bv
residents of the Harbor Hills housing development
I understand the proposed traffic request may have a direct impact on my property.By signing this
petition,I acknowledge that I have read the detailed description of the traffic/parking request being
proposed.
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TRAFFICIP ARK1NG PETITION
We,the undersigned,desire,agree with,and request the following:
a parking permit program to be established for the Peninsula Verde
neighborhood,including Peninsula Verde Drivel Lunada Circle,and
Circle Verde Drive,to eliminat.e the impact of overfl~;L!L parking by
b"esidents of the Harbor HilJ.,s housing development .."'.__
I understand the .proposed traffic request may have a direct impact on my property.By signing this
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TRAFFIClllARKING PETITION
We,the undersigned,desire,agree with,and request the following:
a parking permit pro~,Fam to be established fo~._the Peninsula Verde
neighborhood!including Peninsula Verde Drive,Lunada Circle,and
Circle Verde Drive,to eliminate the impact of overflow parking by
r§s,idents of th§Harbor H,ills hQJJsing development
I understand the proposed traffic request may have a direct impact on my property.By si.gning this
petition,I acknowledge that I have read the detailed description of the traffic/parking request being
proposed.
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