CC SR 20210518 D - Extend Parking Moratorium on Crenshaw Blvd
CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: 05/18/2021
AGENDA REPORT AGENDA HEADING: Consent Calendar
AGENDA TITLE:
Consideration and possible action to extend the temporary parking restriction on
Crenshaw Boulevard south of Crest Road.
RECOMMENDED COUNCIL ACTION:
(1) Adopt Resolution No. 2021-___, extending the temporary parking restriction on
six parking spaces along Crenshaw Boulevard, south of Crest Road, until
September 15, 2021.
FISCAL IMPACT: N/A
Amount Budgeted: N/A
ORIGINATED BY: Katie Lozano, Senior Administrative Analyst, Recreation and Parks
Department
REVIEWED BY: Cory Linder, Director, Recreation and Parks Department
APPROVED BY: Ara Mihranian, AICP, City Manager
ATTACHED SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS:
A. Draft Resolution No. 2021-___, extending the temporary parking
restriction on Crenshaw Boulevard (page A-1)
BACKGROUND AND DISCUSSION:
Since September 2020, a temporary parking restriction has been in place along
Crenshaw Boulevard south of Crest Road, near Crenshaw Boulevard’s intersection with
Park Place, to provide traffic relief to the Del Cerro neighborhood until a larger-scale
parking solution is implemented.
The temporary parking restriction was formally adopted by the City Council via
resolution on September 1, 2020 for 60 days. The temporary parking restriction was
extended on October 20, 2020, December 15, 2020, and on March 16, 2021. Reasons
for the extensions included determining long-term parking and traffic solutions and the
intent to leave the temporary parking restriction in place until these solutions could be
implemented. Additionally, there was an unexpected delay involving negotiating some of
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the ParkMobile contract terms. The current temporary parking restriction expires on
May 31, 2021.
In October 2020, the City Council authorized Staff to solicit proposals for an app-based
parking system to manage parking on Crenshaw Boulevard south of Crest Road and on
Park Place. The City Council approved an agreement with ParkMobile in January 2021.
Staff and ParkMobile made necessary changes to the agreement, which the City
Council approved in April 2021.
The revised timeline for implementing the ParkMobile system is now late June 2021.
During the first month of implementation (July 2021), the City will require a reservation
to park but will not charge the $10 parking fee. This period will allow the City to gain
valuable information and data on parking patterns and habits, and it will provide the City
one month to work directly with ParkMobile on a public education campaign for the new
parking system. The City will begin using both the reservation requirement and
charging the parking fee in August 2021.
To accommodate the revised timeline, Staff recommends extending the temporary
parking restrictions on Crenshaw Boulevard, south of Crest Road, to September 15,
2021 until the ParkMobile application has been fully operational for over a month to
ensure traffic relief is realized in the area. The City Council may lift the temporary
parking restriction early for any reason, including if traffic calming is achieved at an
earlier date.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Traffic Studies
In December 2020, the City Council directed Staff to conduct traffic studies at various
Preserve entry points, including the Del Cerro neighborhood, to identify traffic calming
measures and to improve existing conditions. An expedited study to analyze sight lines
at three locations on Crenshaw Boulevard, south of Crest Road, was both completed
and received by the City Council in March 2021. This expedited analysis resulted in the
permanent reduction of 14 parking spaces along Crenshaw Boulevard to provide
adequate site distance. Three of these 14 eliminated parking spaces were located
within the temporary parking restricted area. Therefore, while the orig inal temporary
parking restriction was for nine parking spaces, the recommended extended temporary
parking restriction is now for the six remaining parking spaces.
A more comprehensive parking and traffic study will be conducted in fall 2021.
ALTERNATIVES:
In addition to the Staff recommendation, the following alternative actions are available
for the City Council’s consideration:
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1. Lift the temporary parking restriction along Crenshaw Boulevard, south of Crest
Road.
2. Take other action, as deemed appropriate.
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RESOLUTION NO. 2021-__
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF CITY OF
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CALIFORNIA, EXTENDING
TEMPORARY PARKING AND STOPPING RESTRICTIONS
ON SPECIFIED PORTIONS OF CRENSHAW BOULEVARD
NEAR THE ENTRANCE OF THE PORTUGUESE BEND
RESERVE UNTIL SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
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, on or around 2010, residents adjacent to the Palos Verdes Nature
Preserve began expressing concerns to the City Council regarding adverse impacts
associated with the volume of vehicles in their neighborhood. The concerns varied
between illegal parking and stopping, unlawful turning movements, excessive vehicle
speeds, and line-of-sight impacts to name a few; and
WHEREAS, on August 18, 2020, City Council in an effort to enhance the
public’s safety on the roadway and minimize conflicts among drivers, directed staff to
implement a temporary parking and stopping prohibition along Crenshaw Blvd. south
of Crest Road up to the Burma Road Trailhead gate for 60 days, u nless extended by
the City Council; and
WHEREAS, this temporary parking and stopping prohibition was put in place
to allow the City to study the parking problems associated with this area of Crenshaw
Blvd. and develop permanent solution; and
WHEREAS, this temporary parking and stopping prohibition was extended in
October 2020, December 2020, and March 2021 and is set to expire on May 31,
2021; and
WHEREAS, to assist with studying the parking issues in this area, the City
contracted with Willdan, a civil engineering firm, to provide a traffic study of the portion
of Crenshaw Blvd. south of Crest Road; and
WHEREAS, in March 2021 as a result of the traffic study, the City Council
approved permanently restricting parking in three parking spaces within the
temporary parking restricted area to improve line of sight; and
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WHEREAS, the City Council now wishes to extend the temporary parking and
stopping prohibition for six of the nine original parking spaces.
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 and its residents have recently experienced significant
congestion and other public health, safety, and welfare issues related to the high
volume of people seeking to access the Palos Verdes Nature Preserve (“Preserve”).
B. Due to the Preserve’s popularity, the portion of Crenshaw Boulevard
near the Preserve often becomes impacted with vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians
seeking to enjoy the facilities. Parking is limited and when full, drivers must turn
around to find parking elsewhere.
C. The popularity of the Preserve and the associated parking problems
have resulted in congestion, which may increase 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 the
entrance to the Preserve, to the detriment of the residents’ health, safety, and welfare.
D. The parking and stopping prohibitions described here are designed to
lessen congestion on Crenshaw Blvd., nearby streets, and the area around the
Preserve.
Section 3: Pursuant to Vehicle Code § 22507(a), the City Council orders that
for a period extending through September 15, 2021 following the adoption of this
resolution, the existing temporary drop-off zone near Rattlesnake gate shall be
extended, and parking shall be prohibited along an approximately 330-foot section
(or approximately six parking spaces) of the south side of Crenshaw Blvd. from
approximately Rattlesnake Trailhead to Park Place located with the geographic
boundaries of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes; and
Section 4: City staff are hereby directed to post signs and/or other paintings
or makings, consistent with the requirements of law that shall give notice that
stopping, parking, or standing of vehicles within the temporary no parking area noted
above shall be, and hereby is, prohibited.
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Section 5: The temporary parking prohibition shall be effective on the date of
adoption of this resolution for a period extending through September 15, 2021 unless
extended or lifted by the City Council.
Section 6: That, in accordance with Vehicle Code Section 22507, the
parking restrictions set forth in Section 3(b) 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 portions of Crenshaw
Boulevard. The number and location of the signs or markings shall be as deemed
necessary by the City Manager to give a dequate notice of the restrictions. The signs
shall read substantially as follows:
Section 7: That this resolution shall take effect immediately.
Section 8: 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 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 9: 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 10: 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 18th day of May, 2021.
_____________________
Eric Alegria, Mayor
Attest:
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Teresa Takaoka, City Clerk
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State of California )
County of Los Angeles ) ss
City of Rancho Palos Verdes )
I, Teresa Takaoka, City Clerk of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes, hereby
certify that the above Resolution No. 2021-__ was duly and regularly passed and
adopted by the said City Council at a regular meeting thereof held on May 18, 2021.
___________________________
Teresa Takaoka, City Clerk
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