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This is not the same as our first parking petition. Most of the things that our first petition requested still remain undone.
With this petition, we ask the City of Long Beach to require MORE THOROUGH, SOLUTION-ORIENTED EVALUATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS from the parking study for Alamitos Beach and Downtown.
This “solution-oriented” parking study concludes that there is no parking issue downtown and that no evaluation is needed after 6 pm and that no evaluation is needed to park the incoming residential and business density. It recommends little more than the city was already willing to do even though there are other viable solutions. For that reason, we ask that our city leaders require a plan that doesn’t leave future parking planning to those who have steadfastly refused for many years to do it.
What we know tells us that the recommendations in this study will only be marginally and temporarily successful because too much is missing. This study relies entirely on parking management to solve parking issues without 4 key needs to accomplish that:
1. Parking Management – A city this size needs a full time, specifically-trained parking manager to implement programs and resolve issues. This study leaves it to individual areas to fund and hire one.
2. Parking Plan – It should include new city-run programs to resolve existing parking issues and prevent evolving issues.
3. Parking for new developments – an evaluation of how much is needed and a plan to park the new residents, businesses, and employees.
4. Funding Plan - especially to reserve new parking revenues for future improvements.
For more information about these items and our summary of the parking study, go here.
LB TAPS is a citizens’ parking group that has been working to get the city to resolve our parking issues. www.LBparking.com/updates
We, the undersigned, urge all Long Beach City officials to require the parking study to include the 4 essentials listed above and to include all options for solutions with a likelihood of success. Please take the first step by setting an agenda item for a study session on parking so that the Planning Commission and City Council can hear about data and potential solution options that are missing from this study and staff report.
I am a Long Beach resident or property owner or business owner.
Respectfully, the Undersigned,
Updates
November 9, 2018
The current parking study remains insufficient because it ignores the reality of residential and business density in our neighborhood. I am actively preparing a formal response to the city planning department to demand a more rigorous evaluation of these recommendations.
Reached 100 supporters
November 9, 2018
62 Comments
As a person with a physical disability, the lack of parking in Alamitos Beach affects me greatly. There have been times I've had to turn around and go home because I couldn't find parking any less than three blocks away from my destination. Fix it!
The parking study did NOT take resident concerns into account: Not enough night time parking spots, unsafe neighborhoods for walking from distant parking to home at night, past/current/future loss of parking spots due to development (problem getting worse.)
Fix the parking struggles please I’ve seen it all. I’m a local cable guy and I serve this area it just hurts seeing these families pay so much for a nice place to live but yet get ripped off by the struggle with no parking and it has been more than a decade.
You realize the majority of people in this city commute to places like Orange, Victorville, Thousand Oaks and beyond, right, Mayor? Ditching our cars for bikes, while a great thing, is not feasible and WE NEED PARKING. Or we need more remote-friendly employers in this state. Please accept the current reality and work within it.
#FixOurParking. Skewing a "study" to suit the desires of developers isn't good for anyone - except developers that are keeping you wealthy. We need DATA-BASED information, not what you want to hear. Lies, deceit don't belong in Long Beach policy. We need a full-time parking manager. Now.
The parking situation in the Willmore District needs to be addressed there is no legal parking available from the hours of 04:00pm-08:00am everyday.
Please do something about the parking situation.
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This is not the same as our first parking petition. Most of the things that our first petition requested still remain undone.
With this petition, we ask the City of Long Beach to require MORE THOROUGH, SOLUTION-ORIENTED EVALUATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS from the parking study for Alamitos Beach and Downtown.
This “solution-oriented” parking study concludes that there is no parking issue downtown and that no evaluation is needed after 6 pm and that no evaluation is needed to park the incoming residential and business density. It recommends little more than the city was already willing to do even though there are other viable solutions. For that reason, we ask that our city leaders require a plan that doesn’t leave future parking planning to those who have steadfastly refused for many years to do it.
What we know tells us that the recommendations in this study will only be marginally and temporarily successful because too much is missing. This study relies entirely on parking management to solve parking issues without 4 key needs to accomplish that:
1. Parking Management – A city this size needs a full time, specifically-trained parking manager to implement programs and resolve issues. This study leaves it to individual areas to fund and hire one.
2. Parking Plan – It should include new city-run programs to resolve existing parking issues and prevent evolving issues.
3. Parking for new developments – an evaluation of how much is needed and a plan to park the new residents, businesses, and employees.
4. Funding Plan - especially to reserve new parking revenues for future improvements.
For more information about these items and our summary of the parking study, go here.
LB TAPS is a citizens’ parking group that has been working to get the city to resolve our parking issues. www.LBparking.com/updates
We, the undersigned, urge all Long Beach City officials to require the parking study to include the 4 essentials listed above and to include all options for solutions with a likelihood of success. Please take the first step by setting an agenda item for a study session on parking so that the Planning Commission and City Council can hear about data and potential solution options that are missing from this study and staff report.
I am a Long Beach resident or property owner or business owner.
Respectfully, the Undersigned,
Updates
November 9, 2018
The current parking study remains insufficient because it ignores the reality of residential and business density in our neighborhood. I am actively preparing a formal response to the city planning department to demand a more rigorous evaluation of these recommendations.
Reached 100 supporters
November 9, 2018
62 Comments
Yes please fix our parking! I spend up to one hour everyday after work looking for parking, maybe even more. Very frustrating, I have cried multiple times from not being able to find parking anywhere. I search up to 5-6 blocks away from home and can’t find anything available.
As a person with a physical disability, the lack of parking in Alamitos Beach affects me greatly. There have been times I've had to turn around and go home because I couldn't find parking any less than three blocks away from my destination. Fix it!
The parking study did NOT take resident concerns into account: Not enough night time parking spots, unsafe neighborhoods for walking from distant parking to home at night, past/current/future loss of parking spots due to development (problem getting worse.)
Fix the parking struggles please I’ve seen it all. I’m a local cable guy and I serve this area it just hurts seeing these families pay so much for a nice place to live but yet get ripped off by the struggle with no parking and it has been more than a decade.
You realize the majority of people in this city commute to places like Orange, Victorville, Thousand Oaks and beyond, right, Mayor? Ditching our cars for bikes, while a great thing, is not feasible and WE NEED PARKING. Or we need more remote-friendly employers in this state. Please accept the current reality and work within it.
#FixOurParking. Skewing a "study" to suit the desires of developers isn't good for anyone - except developers that are keeping you wealthy. We need DATA-BASED information, not what you want to hear. Lies, deceit don't belong in Long Beach policy. We need a full-time parking manager. Now.
The parking situation in the Willmore District needs to be addressed there is no legal parking available from the hours of 04:00pm-08:00am everyday.
Please do something about the parking situation.
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Yes please fix our parking! I spend up to one hour everyday after work looking for parking, maybe even more. Very frustrating, I have cried multiple times from not being able to find parking anywhere. I search up to 5-6 blocks away from home and can’t find anything available.