Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutSupplemental Information Received During Oral Communications.,. Timesoc SUNDAY, APRIL 16, 2017 N Times Community News publication serving Orange County Smtt Smellier 17 VffiQ.BS line up on Juno Avenue in Anaheim on Monday. Increasing density is making parking almost impossible in pacts of the cot U.C. can't awaken from its parking nightmare )vernight parking is m issue for residents in the county's urban -ore, where ap Wments are packed near single- family homes. w TRY VO 7oiceof0C Residents in an increasingly dense Or- mge County are feeling the (rowing pains rf scarce parking. 'Hvety home or condo or apartment is oe�athf6 more vehicles today than it was .0 or 20 years ago," said Carlo Tomaino, as- ;istaut to the city manager in lake Forest. In the county's urban core, where apart- nents are packed near single - family tomes, curbs are often crowded bumper- to- bumper with cars. Homeowners and renters alike complain about long patrols after work for an empty space, only to face the other side effects of too little street parking: litter, spillover park- ing from nearby schools and events, strang- ers parking mobile homes and work trucks on public streets, even auto dealers who use residential street curbs as a free display for used cars. Would you like to go home at night and padt three streets away and walk to your house?" Ray Abrahamson, an Anaheim homeowner, asked the City Council, Vk Gul ]am uur house to go gmcWahW ping and come back with a paddng space." Most cities have tried to solve the prob- lem by issuing parking permits to residents, a move that helped some streets, but shifted the parking shortage to others. Other cities, like Fullerton, created a patchwork of apart- ment neighborhoods where overnight street parking is allowed, but the streets still are jammed. In Anaheim's Juno Avenue neighborhood, one mile west of Disneyland, nearly all nearby single - family home streets have Converted to permit -only parking, squeez- See P rkWZ page R7 PA �ilf7kTG 'A lot of times, it seems a peop a concerns ut equity in the permit L7i�i�ii� in neighborhoods with apartments pacing program, the City Council Con=mdfrompWRI tend to get packing tickets more fre- discussed changing the policy, al- quendy than residential neighbor - though nothing specific has been pro- ing apartment dwellers into an ever - shrinking space. Many resort to il- legally Parking in hue lanes in narrow alleys and eat the cost of parking tick- ets, while permitted streets one block over sit half -empty. Leah McCallaugh, a resident of Ful- lerton who lives in an apartment, waved a handful of patting tickets at a City Council meeting in October, pleading tearfully for officials to fix the problems an overnight parking ban caused her and other apartment residents with limited parking. "Ail these are tickets from where I live," McCa0augh told the council. "I work hard. I'm a taxpayer. I have every right to park on the streets I live on." The Fullerton council has discussed temporarily suspending its ban on overnight parking. Much of the apartment and multi- family housing stock countywide was built before the 1970x, when house- holds had fewer working adults. Many provide just one or two dedicated' parking spots. The result is apartment residents tend to rely on street park- ing more than those living in single - family homes. North and central O.C. cities, where the population is denser and the housing stock is older, are hit much harder by the parking issues than south county, which developed much later. A study by the city of IAke Forest found most of its overflow parking problems occurred at the southern tip of the city, especially in three census tracts where there tend to be more people per household and the hous- ing stock was built in the 1960s. Advocates for apartment owners and residents say penalties dispropor- tionately affect renters. hoods," said Nicholas Dunlap, aboard member for the Apartment Assn. of Orange County. An opinion published last April by then -state Arty. Gen. Kamala Harris concluded residential permit parking programs cant discriminate against residents based on the type of dwelling they live in. Dunlap believes that opinion calls into question the legality of some city parking policies. Anaheim, for example, allots up to five permits per single family house- hold, and two permits for multifamily housing, while Santa Alta gives single - family households up to three per- mits, and one permit per unit for mul- tifamily housing. But Santa Ana doesdt allow permits for complexes with more than four units. SCARCE HOUSING Part of the solution may lie in hous- ing. A shortage of affordable housing has compounded the parking prob- lem, with more adult millennials liv- ing with their parents and families doubling up in apartments. A worker needs to make $25 an hour to afford a one - bedroom apart- ment in Orange County, according to the 2016 OC Community Indicators Report but two- thirds of county jobs don't pay that much. The same report determined the county's four largest job sectors construction, tourism, business and professional and health services don( have annual salaries high enough to buy an entry-level home. A number of cities now are review- ing their permit paring policies in search of solutions. In Anaheim, after residents raised posed yet. Acting Santa Ana City Manager Ger- ardo Mouet recently initiated an inter- nal review of the city's residential ping program to address com- plaints from residents. Other cities are approaching the problem by creating additional public 1addn& In lake Forest, where officials are considering an overhaul to their park- ing policies, the city has discussed eliminating undeveloped green space near the Viejo West Condominiums to create more pacing and is exploring a deal to create overnight permit park- ing at the lake Forest Golf Course. Tomaino said part of the solution lies in getting homeowners associa- tions and property managers to en- force Hiles prohibiting residents from using their garages for storage and hv- ing space and instead use them for pacing. Stanton officials recently proposed turning a vacant lot at Cerritos and Flower avenues into a public tot W help deal with spillover parking. They also are eliminating red fire lanes where they aredt necessary to create room for street parking. Robert Rizzie, who owns duplex apartments on Juno Avenue in Ana- heim, said absent a solution, the city's permit pacing policy continues to pit neighbor against neighbor. "You pack people in and give them no options," Rizzie said. "The city is Creating tensions that shouldnt be there." This story was reported by Voice of OC, a nonprofit Investigative newsroom, as part of a publishing agreement with TimesOC. Contact Thy Vo at Ivo@voiceofocorg. O Los Alamitos Unified School District 10293 Bloomfield Street • Los Alamitos, CA 90720 -2200 Sherry Kropp, Ed. D. Superintendent August 2016 Dear Parents/Guardians: v (562) 799.4700 • FAX (562) 799 -4711 PRICING CONTINUES AT $1.00 PER RIDE! The Los Alamitos Unified School District values your students' participation in the District's Home -to- School Transportation Program, and is pleased to announce that all Home- to-School transportation rates for the 2016 -17 upcoming school year will remain at $1.00 per trip. Rates have not been this low in over eleven years and we are excited to offer this again to anyone going to school in the District. Last year, the District implemented a new route that drop off students to the four schools within the Rossmoor community. This is a program has helped to reduce the traffic within our community and is open to all students attending any of the four schools within Rossmoor. Why deal with the traffic in and out of the Rossmoor community when you can drop your student off at one of the new bus stops. We encourage you and your student's participation in this pilot program. Together we can reduce traffic in our community and continue the program. The District's transportation program continues to be a good value for parents and students are safer on a bus than any other mode of transportation. According to the National Highway Transportation Safety Association, nearly eight times safer than passenger vehicles for transporting students. School busses reduce traffic congestion around schools and our CNG bus fleet is so much more environmentally friendly than having many more individual automobiles making the same trip. Whether your student rides the bus both ways, one way, or only rides occasionally, we hope that you will participate in the District's transportation program. Our main goal in providing a Home -to- School Transportation Program is the safety of students, and we encourage all parents to seriously consider participating in the Program for the 2016 -17 school year. Please review the attached registration materials closely to ensure you understand what is being offered. The Board - approved, parent -paid student transportation program includes the following: 1. The 180 -day two-way full year annual fee is only $1.00 per ride (5360 per year for $180 for the semester) for your student. All costs are shown in Exhibit A. 2. Fees will not be charged for students residing in eligible areas in the District who are physically handicapped and their Individual Educational Plan requires Home -to School Transportation. 3. Free or reduced fees will be available for those who are eligible as determined by the same criteria as that used in the school lunch program. If you are interested in this, please contact Celeste Calubaquib, Director of Food Services at (562) 799 -4592, extension 81118, and get your authorization letter prior to applying for Home -To- School transportation. Once received, send in a copy of your "authorization letter" with this application. 4. A listing of bus stops and time schedules is attached (see Exhibit B). 5. The District will provide Home -to- School transportation service, including the selling of bus tickets/passes for the Orange County Transit Authority (OCTA) that many Los Alamitos High School students residing in the Seal Beach Old town/Hill areas want to purchase for their bus service. 6. Parents of students being transported to school in wheelchairs are responsible to insure that their child's wheelchair meets state and federal construction guidelines. The District is not responsible for student injury caused by wheelchair construction. Board of Education: Jeffrey Barke • David Boyer • Megan Cutuli • Diana D. Hill • Karen. Russell �n hUwneosch�< J`o O 'C hM1� School Calendar Dates for 2018 -19 All schools (except Weaver) First day of school August 8, 2018 Last day of school May 30, 2019 No school September 3, 2018 (Labor Day) November 12, 2018 (Veteran's Day) November 19 - 23, 2018 (Thanksgiving Break -1 week) December 24, 2018 - January 4, 2019 (Winter Break - 2 weeks) January 21, 2019 (Martin Luther King Day) February 18 - 22, 2019 (President's Holiday -1 week) April 22 - 26, 2019 (Spring Break -1 week) May 27, 2019 (Memorial Day) Three non-student staff development /teacher planning days have not been scheduled yet during the schoolyear(TBA). Weaver Elementary First day of school August 1, 2018 Last day of school June 6, 2019 No school September 3, 2018 (Labor Day) October 1- 5, 2018 (Fall Break -1 week) November 12, 2018 (Veteran's Day) November 19 - 23, 2018 (Thanksgiving Break -1 week) December 24, 2018 - January 4, 2019 (Winter Break - 2 weeks) January 21, 2019 (Martin Luther King Day) February 18 - 22, 2019 (President's Holiday -1 week) April 15 - 26, 2019 (Spring Break - 2 weeks) May 27, 2019 (Memorial Day) Three non-student staff development /teacher planning days have not been scheduled yet during the schoolyear(TBA).