LA PALMA : City OKs Putting Up More Parking Signs

The City Council last week approved putting up more parking signs to make sure motorists do not block street sweepers.

In many areas, council members found, motorists were overlooking parking signs, which are now only posted at the entrance of neighborhood tracts. Council members approved relocating and adding new signs on designated streets in the coming months to increase their visibility. No cost estimate was available for the new signs.

The city issues about seven parking tickets a day, bringing about $38,000 annually to city coffers, officials said.

In other action, the council agreed to lend its support to two bills pending before the state Legislature. It unanimously endorsed AB 17, which would require owners of unmonitored magazine racks with sexually explicit materials to install a special token or identification card mechanism to ensure the materials would only be sold to adults.

Council members voted 4 to 1 to back AB 13, which would make all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants, smoke-free.

Councilman David Lim cast the dissenting vote, arguing that each establishment or workplace should be allowed to determine its own policy regarding smoking.

The council also gave its support to a proposed constitutional amendment that would require the state to finance any new local government mandates it enacts. If funds are not appropriated within 90 days, the amendment would allow cities to ignore the unfunded legislation.