DANA POINT : City to Take Sides on Street Parking
The City Council is scheduled tonight to decide the parking dilemma of Doheny Place.
The bluff-top street in the Palisades area of Capistrano Beach offers panoramic ocean views, upscale property values and nearby beaches--but little space for parking. Doheny Place is just two blocks long and 24 feet wide and the city staff has recommended limiting parking to one side of the street.
The council must decide which side gets the cars, a choice that is bound to leave some residents unhappy.
“It could get hot,” said City Councilman Mike Eggers. “This is one of those issues that can blow up on you.”
For decades, motorists and residents have used the street cautiously, even more so lately as homes began being built on both sides. A problem surfaced in April, however, with a new ordinance that limits parking to one side of streets narrower than 30 feet.
When the city’s Traffic Commission recommended parking for the south side of the street, resident Diane Harkey filed a protest. Harkey, who has lived on the south side of Doheny Place for 11 years, said it did not make sense.
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