Fullerton : Panel to Consider Ban on Parking Near Church
City Council members will vote Tuesday on a Sunday morning parking ban proposed for a neighborhood near a church.
Fullerton’s Transportation and Circulation Commission will recommend against banning parking in the vicinity of First Evangelical Free Church, after receiving the results of a survey made last month. Of 700 questionnaires, 367 were returned, with 217 opposing a parking ban and 150 supporting it, traffic engineer Paul Smith said.
The church has brought church members and neighbors to public council hearings for discussions of the church’s parking problems and proposed expansion, said Barry Eaton, the city’s senior development planner.
The church, at Bastanchury Road and Brea Boulevard, recently was granted permission to take over a shopping center on the northeast corner of Brea Boulevard and Rolling Hills Drive, on the conditions that it provide additional parking space by building one lot and restriping a second, Eaton said.
Council members also are expected to approve a recommendation for awarding a $246,822 contract to install an automated circulation system in the library, City Manager William Winter said.
“We have a very antiquated system now,” Winter said. “We have a difficult time keeping records on overdue books.”
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