Parking: Regulations in Hermosa Beach
Today’s lead article (June 9) hit a lot of nails on the head. Every busy city has to have parking regulations, but the wholesale, energetic (in-your-face) enforcement of them in Hermosa Beach certainly does cost its merchants a lot of revenue.
My own extended family and friends with whom we have talked have just stopped going to Hermosa for anything. No more dinners at Pier Avenue restaurants, no more Comedy and Magic Club, no more upscale features at the Strand, a former addiction. We spend nothing in Hermosa.
We have been ticketed and paid for everything: overtime, forgot to put in money; didn’t put in enough money, extending two inches beyond the parking line. We even left mid-movie to put in another one-hour fee, and got a ticket anyway as only a single hour is allowed near the movie theater, although the time is paid for.
Too many other South Bay cities want our business . They enforce regulations without Hermosa’s ticket madness.
JOHN D. ANDREWS
Palos Verdes Peninsula
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