Car Wars Sep 12. 2012 | Comments (6)
If you ask a West End resident what scenario would impel him to abandon his parking spot on a summer weekend, you’re likely to get a looooong pause, a guffaw, or an answer akin to “A funeral. Maybe. If it was a very close relative.” In 2007, the City of Long Beach commissioned a Comprehensive Plan to create a blueprint for the next 15 years. One of the proposals in the Plan was to “Design and implement a Residential Permit Parking Program to address the parking problems in the West End”. In 2008, the City of Long Beach and Level G Associates (an independent consulting group specializing in parking studies) conducted an evaluation of the West End parking situation, “to develop new parking management strategies designed to improve the Long Beach parking experience by changing current parking patterns that often leave residents, shoppers, visitors and workplace employees with limited or...