Parking Ban for Street Sweeping Cut to 2 Hours

Complaints from residents have prompted Burbank city officials to reduce parking bans for street sweeping by half as of July 1, Public Works Director Ora Lampman said Thursday.

“It was something we’ve been looking at for some time,” Lampman said.

The parking ban will be reduced from four hours, and in some cases five hours, to just two hours.

The days, routes and frequency of the sweeping will remain the same, and city workers will put stickers on signs to list the new hours.

“They thought that four and five hours for street sweeping are excessive,” Lampman said. After a review of the policy, “personally, I think I agree,” he said.

While other cities such as Glendale and Los Angeles have alternate-side-of-the-street parking that forbids parking on one side of a street for two hours, the four hours in Burbank had given the city more flexibility when there were snags, he said.

“It certainly was a good accommodation for us,” Lampman said. “But, from a resident’s perspective, they thought it was an excessive time for a parking restriction.”

For more information on the changes, call (818) 953-9622. For information on how to get parking restriction signs for your street, call (818) 953-9525.