Who’s Stealing Venice Parking Spaces?
By Jim
Smith
Who’s Stealing Venice
Parking Spaces? It’s the city of Los Angeles, according to a complaint
filed Nov. 27 by Venice resident Peggy Lee Kennedy with the California Coast
Commission.
The complaint alleges that the city is
removing and restricting hundreds of parking spaces without Venice Coastal
Commission permission (and without the knowledge of parking-deficient
Venetians). As a result, not only Venice residents are finding it more difficult
to park, but beach access is also being
curtailed.
Many of the parking
restrictions have been the result of efforts by the city of Los Angeles to
pacify some Venice homeowners, business owners, or others who are opposed to
poorer residents who are sleeping in their vehicles.
According to Kennedy, who conducted
the survey of lost parking, "it is simply a waste of city money that could be
much better spent on actual solutions to parking or poverty. And it is wrong to
value the wishes of those few (who may have property in Venice) over the needs
or wishes of human beings living with a lower economic
status."
The list, below, is only a
partial example of recently created parking restrictions that limit public
access in the Venice coastal zone.
Not
only streets, but parking lots, have been hit by the restrictions in parking.
For instance, in the Rose Avenue beach parking lot, a concession/rental stand
was built in the middle/back of the parking lot that removed pay parking spaces
for the beach.
Kennedy is asking other
Venice residents and visitors to contact her at
<HumanRights@freevenice.org> if they know of any parking restrictions that
are not on the list.
List of
Los Angeles City Street Signs, Meters, or Painted
Curbs
in Venice that limit
coastal access and parking for
residents.
• Rose Ave 2-Hour
Parking 8AM to 6PM Except Sunday Signs, bordered by Lincoln Blvd and 6th Ave,
includes multiple blocks on both sides of the
street
• Rose Ave 1-Hour Parking 8AM to
6PM Except Sunday Signs, bordered by 5th Ave and Hampton Drive, includes
multiple blocks on both sides of the
street
• Hampton Drive 2-Hour Parking
8AM to 6PM Except Sat & Sun Signs, bordered by Rose Ave and Navy or the
Santa Monica city limits, includes one long block or blocks on both sides of the
street
• Rose Ave 2-Hour Parking 8AM to
6PM Daily Signs, bordered by Hampton Drive and Main Street, includes one Block
on both sides of the street
• Hampton
Drive 2-Hour Parking 8AM to 6PM Except Sunday Signs, bordered by Rose Ave and
Sunset Ave, one long block on both sides of the
street
• Hampton Drive No Parking 2AM
to 4AM Nightly Signs (same as above
block)
• 3rd Ave No Parking 2AM to 4AM
Nightly Signs, bordered by Rose Ave and Sunset Ave, includes one long block on
both sides of the street
• Sunset Ave
4-Hour Parking 8AM to 6PM Except Sat/Sun Signs, bordered by 4th Ave and 5th Ave,
includes one block, signs on south side of street
• 4th Ave 2-Hour Parking 8AM to 6PM
Except Sat & Sun Signs, bordered by Sunset Ave and Vernon Ave, includes one
block, signs on east side of street
•
Vernon Ave 4-Hour Parking 8AM to 6PM Except Sat/Sun Signs, bordered by 4th Ave
and 5th Ave, includes one block, signs on north side of
street
• Abbot Kinney 2-Hour Parking
8AM to 6PM Except Sunday Signs, bordered by Brooks/Main Street and California
Ave, includes multiple blocks on both sides of the
street
• Abbot Kinney 4-Hour Parking
8AM to 6PM Except Sunday Signs, bordered by Rialto/Palms Blvd and Venice Blvd,
includes one long block on both sides of the
street
• Venice Blvd North 1-Hour
Parking 8AM to 6PM Except Sunday Signs, bordered by Lincoln Blvd and Brenta
Place, multiple blocks, sings on north side of
Blvd
• Venice Blvd North No Parking 8AM
to 6PM Except Sunday Signs, bordered by Meade Place and Victoria Ave, includes
one long block
• Lot # 613 No Parking
2AM to 4AM Nightly Sign by older 10-Hour Parking Sign, located at the end of
Pisani Place (behind SPARC, 685 Venice
Blvd)
• Venice Blvd North No Parking
10PM to 5AM Nightly Signs, bordered by Electric Ave and Abbot Kinney, includes
one long block
• Venice Blvd North
2-Hour Parking 8AM to 6PM Daily Signs, bordered by Abbot Kinney and Venice Way,
includes multiple Blocks
• Ave. 17 Tow
Away No Stopping Anytime Signs, bordered by Pacific Ave and Speedway, includes
north side of very wide street, One long
block
• Ave. 17 Red Painted Curbing
(same as above street), bordered by Pacific Ave and Speedway, includes north
side of very wide street, one long
block
• Ave. 18 2-Hour Parking 8AM to
6PM Except Sat & Sun Signs, bordered by Pacific and Speedway, both sides of
a long block
• Strongs Drive No Parking
Anytime Signs, bordered by Mildred Ave and North Venice Blvd, includes only on
2/3 of block, west side of street
•
Strongs Drive Red Painted Curbing (same as above street), bordered by Mildred
Ave and North Venice Blvd, includes the middle of the block, west side of
street
• Venice Blvd North 1-Hour
Parking 8AM to 6PM with Meters, bordered by Pacific and Speedway, one Long
Block, north side of one way street
•
Venice Blvd North No Parking Anytime (same as above street), bordered by Pacific
and Speedway, one Long Block, south side of one way
street
(Note: the same block of South Venice
Blvd is open to parking on both sides of a one way
street.)
• Venice Blvd South 2-Hour
Parking 8AM to 6PM Daily Signs, bordered by Washington Way and Abbot Kinney,
includes multiple blocks
• Venice Blvd
South No Parking 11PM to 5AM Nightly, bordered by Abbot Kinney and 670 Venice
Blvd, includes multiple blocks
•
Washington Blvd 2-Hour Parking 8AM to 6PM Except Sunday Signs, bordered by Yale
Ave and Abbot Kinney, multiple Blocks, both side of
street
• Washington Blvd White &
Green Painted Curbs, bordered by Marr St and 727 Washington Blvd, includes 2/3
of one long block
• Harbor Street No
Parking 8PM to 6PM Nightly, bordered by Clark Ave and Wilson Ave, multiple
blocks
• Washington Blvd 2-Hour Parking
8AM to 6PM Daily Signs & Meters, bordered by Dell Ave and Beach Ave/Palawan
Way, multiple blocks
• Washington Blvd
1-Hour Parking 8AM to 6PM Daily Signs & Meters, bordered by Speedway and
Pacific, includes one long block, both sides of
street
• Washington Blvd Loading Zone
6PM to 12Midnight (same as above street), bordered by Speedway, multiple parking
spaces, given to C&O Restaurant for Valet
Parking
• Washington Blvd 2-Hour
Parking 8AM to 12Midnight Daily, bordered by Palawan Way and Mildred Ave,
multiple blocks, south side of street
•
Mildred Ave Tow Away 10PM to 6AM Nightly, bordered by Washington Blvd and Boone
Ave, multiple blocks, one side of street
Posted: Sat
- December
1, 2007 at 07:26 PM