(June 14, 2017, 8:05 a.m.) -- As seen LIVE on LBREPORT.com, the City Council voted 8-0 (Andrews absent) at its June 13 meeting to direct the City Attorney's office to draft an ordinance (that will return for two Council votes) that will ban parking of RVs/oversize vehicles on city streets in all LB residential neighborhoods (with limited time periods to load/unload the vehicle) and continue to allow parking such vehicles on city streets within certain commercial/industrial areas with limitations determined by the City Traffic Engineer by evaluating each street individually.
During Council discussion, Councilwoman Suzie Price [who with Councilman Daryl Supernaw in Sept. 2016 first agendized an item to ban/restrict RV parking in some areas but encountered some Council resistance that led to requring further information from city staff, see below] made a motion to amend city staff's June 13 agendized recommendations to provide some flexibility regarding the number of days for permits to load/unload vehicles, the number of allowable annual permits and would allow parking RVs on private property even if not behind a gate (the latter requiring a zoning change and thus some additional time through the Planning Commission/Council hearing process.) [Scroll down for further.] |
During Council discussion, Councilwoman Jeannine Pearce twice sought assurance that the evening's RV/oversize vehicle parking agenda item wouldn't affect current city policies or city ordinances (including one which is likely unenforceable in view of federal court rulings) regarding homeless people sleeping in their cars or RVs. City Attorney Charles Parkin stated that the June 13 agenda item on RV parking changes doesn't affect those matters. Councilwoman Pearce stated on that basis she would support the June 13 Council action...but twice emphasized that she plans to bring back to the Council an item that she agendized in October 2016 (joined at that time by co-authors Price, Andrews and Uranga) that directed city management to prepare a "feasibility report" on allowing homeless parking lots (on public or private property) to operate in then-unspecified parts of town. Councilwoman Price replied that she wasn't prepared to take any action or discuss the issue of "safe parking" zones/transitional parking in connection with the current agenda item, calling it outside the item's subject matter. [City staff's June 13 agendizing memo attached a to-from-for memo to the Mayor and Council with an overview but not details of the homeless parking issue and the issue itself wasn't agendized for Council acton or discussion.]
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