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RANCHO PALOS VERDES CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: 09/04/2018
AGENDA REPORT AGENDA HEADING: Consent Calendar
AGENDA DESCRIPTION:
Consideration and possible action to adopt a resolution prohibiting night-time parking on
Crenshaw Boulevard from the entrance of the Portuguese Bend Reserve to the
intersection of Crest Road.
RECOMMENDED COUNCIL ACTION:
1) Adopt Resolution No. 2018-__, A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CALIFORNIA, PROHIBITING NIGHT-
TIME PARKING ON CRENSHAW BOULEVARD FROM THE ENTRANCE OF
THE PORTUGUESE BEND RESERVE TO THE INTERSECTION OF CREST
ROAD.
FISCAL IMPACT: None.
Amount Budgeted: N/A
Additional Appropriation: N/A
Account Number(s): N/A
ORIGINATED BY: Elias Sassoon, PE, Director of Public Works
REVIEWED BY: Same as above
APPROVED BY: Doug Willmore, City Manager
ATTACHED SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS:
A. Resolution No. 2018-__ (page A-1)
B. Sample sign (page B-1)
BACKGROUND AND DISCUSSION:
The City and its residents have recently experienced significant congestion and
other public health, safety and welfare issues related to: (1) the high volume of
people seeking to access the Palos Verdes Nature Preserve (“Preserve”), including
the Portuguese Bend Reserve near Del Cerro Park; and (2) the presence of
individuals seeking to access the Preserve at night when it is closed to the public, to
engage in activities such as unpermitted night-time hiking and illicit drug use.
At its July 31, 2018, meeting, the City Council discussed possible solutions to the
foregoing issues at length. One of the proposed solutions on which the City Council
reached a consensus was prohibiting night-time parking on Crenshaw Blvd.
between the entrance to the Portuguese Bend Reserve and the intersection of
Crest Rd. As such, the City Council directed Staff to take the measures necessary
to formally impose this prohibition. Pursuant to City Council direction, the City
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Attorney has prepared resolution (Attachment A) prohibiting night-time parking on
the subject portion of Crenshaw Blvd.
The City currently allows day-time and night-time street parking along the portion of
Crenshaw Blvd. between the entrance to the Portuguese Bend Reserve and the
intersection of Crest Rd., an area which contains 41 parking spaces (the “Parking
Spaces”), including 10 recreation permit spaces. Staff has briefed the Traffic Safety
Committee (TSC) of this proposed action on August 20, 2018, and the TSC is in full
support of this proposal.
California Vehicle Code (“CVC”) Section 22507(a) provides that local authorities may,
by ordinance or resolution, prohibit or restrict the stopping, parking, or standing of
vehicles on certain streets or highways, or portions thereof, during all or certain hours of
the day. The draft resolution would prohibit night-time parking in the Parking Spaces
pursuant to the authority of CVC Section 22507(a). Night-time parking, for purposes of
the resolution, is defined as the time period between one hour after sundown and one
hour before sunrise.
Under CVC Section 22507(a), the resolution shall not apply until signs or markings
giving adequate notice thereof have been placed. Accordingly, the draft resolution
provides that, as soon as practicable after its adoption, the City Manager shall cause
signs to be placed in the area as deemed necessary to provide adequate notice of the
new parking restrictions. The resolution also specifies the required content of the signs,
which is consistent with the content of other signs currently in place in the City
(Attachment B) pursuant to RPVMC Section 12.16.030 (except with respect to the
authority underlying the restriction).
Adoption of the proposed resolution would prohibit night-time parking on the subject
portion of Crenshaw Blvd. every night. The resolution would take effect immediately,
and the restrictions would be enforceable as soon as the necessary signage is in place.
ALTERNATIVES:
In addition to the Staff recommendation, the following alternative actions are available
for the City Council’s consideration:
1. Direct Staff to revise the proposed resolution, and to agendize the revised
resolution for adoption at the next City Council meeting.
2. Direct Staff to take no action this time.
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RESOLUTION NO. 2018-__
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF CITY OF
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CALIFORNIA, PROHIBITING
NIGHT-TIME PARKING ON CRENSHAW BOULEVARD
FROM THE ENTRANCE OF THE PORTUGUESE BEND
RESERVE TO THE INTERSECTION OF CREST ROAD
WHEREAS, the City of Rancho Palos Verdes (“City”) is a general law City
located in the County of Los Angeles, State of California; and,
WHEREAS, California Vehicle Code Section 22507(a) provides that local
authorities may, by ordinance or resolution, prohibit or restrict the stopping, parking,
or standing of vehicles on certain streets or highways, or portions thereof, during all
or certain hours of the day, and that, with the exception of alleys, the ordinance or
resolution shall not apply until signs or markings giving adequate notice thereof
have been placed; and,
WHEREAS, in order to protect public health, safety and welfare by
addressing criminal activities and nuisance impacts arising from unlawful or
unpermitted access to and use of the Portuguese Bend Reserve, which access and
use is facilitated by the night-time availability of street parking on Crenshaw
Boulevard from the entrance of the Portuguese Bend Reserve to the intersection of
Crest Road, the City Council sees fit to prohibit night-time parking on such portion
of Crenshaw Boulevard.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO
PALOS VERDES DOES HEREBY FIND, DETERMINE, AND RESOLVE AS
FOLLOWS:
Section 1: That the foregoing recitals are true and correct, and are
incorporated herein by reference.
Section 2: That the City Council hereby adopts the following findings:
A. The City currently allows day-time and night-time street parking along
Crenshaw Boulevard, from its origin at the entrance to the Portuguese Bend
Reserve (“Reserve”), a part of the Palos Verdes Nature Preserve, to the
intersection of Crest Road, an area which contains several dozen parking spaces
(the “Parking Spaces”).
B. There are residential neighborhoods of the City surrounding the stretch
of Crenshaw Boulevard where the Parking Spaces are located.
C. The City and its residents have recently experienced significant
congestion and other public health, safety, and welfare issues related to: (1) the
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high volume of people seeking to access the Reserve; and (2) the presence of
individuals seeking to access the Reserve at night, when the Reserve is closed to
the public.
D. The Parking Spaces are frequently used by individuals seeking to
unlawfully enter the Reserve at night, to engage in a range of activities including
unpermitted night-time hiking and illicit drug use, and the availability of the Parking
Spaces at night attracts the presence of such individuals by facilitating their access
to the Reserve.
E. The availability of the Parking Spaces at night has resulted in undue
night-time congestion (which increases the risk of vehicular and pedestrian
accidents due to obstructed visibility), trespassing and other criminal activities, and
noise and other public nuisance impacts in the residential neighborhoods
surrounding the Parking Spaces and the entrance to the Reserve, to the detriment
of the residents of such City neighborhoods.
Section 3: That, based on the findings set forth in Section 2, and in order to
protect and promote public health, safety and welfare, the City Council hereby
prohibits night-time parking along Crenshaw Boulevard, from the entrance of the
Portuguese Bend Reserve to the intersection of Crest Road. For purposes of this
resolution, “night-time” shall mean the time period beginning one hour after
sundown and ending one hour before sunrise.
Section 4: That, in accordance with Vehicle Code Section 22507, the
parking restrictions set forth in Section 2 shall not apply or be enforced until signs or
markings giving adequate notice of the restrictions have been placed. The City
Manager, or his or her designee, as soon as practicable after adoption of this
resolution, shall cause the placement of signs along the subject portion of
Crenshaw Boulevard. The number and location of the signs or markings shall be as
deemed necessary by the City Manager to give adequate notice of the restrictions.
The signs shall read substantially as follows:
NO PARKING BETWEEN ONE HOUR AFTER
SUNDOWN & ONE HOUR BEFORE SUNRISE.
VEHICLES IN VIOLATION ARE SUBJECT TO BEING
CITED AND TOWED AT OWNER’S EXPENSE. LOMITA
SHERIFF’S STATION 310-539-1661. [Referencing this
resolution by number].
Section 5: That this resolution shall take effect immediately.
Section 6: That if any section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause,
phrase, or portion of this resolution is for any reason held to be invalid or
unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision
shall not affect the validity of the remainder of this resolution. The City Council hereby
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declares that it would have adopted this resolution, and each and every section,
subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion thereof, irrespective of the
fact that any one or more sections, subsections, subdivisions, sentences, clauses,
phrases, or portions thereof be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
Section 7: That the City Clerk shall certify to the passage, approval, and
adoption of this resolution, and shall cause this resolution and its certification to be
entered in the Book of Resolutions of the City Council of the City.
Section 8: That the adoption of this resolution does not constitute a
“project” within the meaning of Section 15378 of the California Environmental
Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines, as the parking restrictions do not have the potential
for resulting in either a direct physical change to the environment, or a reasonable
foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment. Therefore, this resolution
is not subject to CEQA.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED on this ____ day of September, 2018.
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Susan M. Brooks, Mayor
Attest:
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Emily Colborn, City Clerk
State of California )
County of Los Angeles ) ss
City of Rancho Palos Verdes )
I, Emily Colborn, City Clerk of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes, hereby certify
that the above Resolution No. 2018-__ was duly and regularly passed and adopted
by the said City Council at a regular meeting thereof held on August __, 2018.
___________________________
Emily Colborn, City Clerk
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