Council OKs Resident Parking Plan

Two of Redondo Beach’s most congested neighborhoods will get some parking relief with the approval Tuesday of residents-only parking areas on the 400 and 500 blocks of Avenue F and the 800 block of Avenue A.

Despite dissent from Councilman Terry Ward, who argued that preferential parking districts only push congestion onto adjacent blocks, the council voted 3 to 1 in favor of petitions filed by residents of those streets.

Avenue F residents complained that their curbside parking is always filled, either by visitors to a nearby church or by apartment tenants from the next block who use their garages for storage.

On Avenue A, homeowners blamed spillover from the Church of Religious Science and Alta Vista Park--spillover that had ended up on Knob Hill Avenue until a preferential parking district was enacted there.

In both cases, the petitioners said that at peak parking times, they are unable to park in front of their own homes and that drivers from outside the neighborhood routinely empty ashtrays and dump litter bags onto their lawns.

To alleviate the problem, the council agreed to issue parking passes that would limit parking in those neighborhoods to residents during certain hours. On Avenue F, the preferential parking would be in effect daily between 10 p.m. and 3 a.m. On Avenue A, the restrictions would be effect on Sundays only.