I want to add my concerns to Cary Anderson's for following the rules regarding traffic incursion into the residential neighborhoods.
For me, it is not a matter of a rare instance of an organization holding a charitable event that brings outside traffic into my neighborhood. My block has had permit parking since 1982. The hours for enforcement were expanded about 15 years ago to match the hours of continued outside incursion.
After all of these years, I continue to request Parking Enforcement several times a week because drivers feel the restrictions do not apply to them. There are times on the weekends, outside of the hours of enforcement, when we cannot park on our own residential block.
During the past few weeks there has been some sort of fund-raising activity every weekend within sight of my home, affecting traffic or parking on my block. I find flyers abandoned in place, left to rot on street light poles.
Perhaps you can recall seeing some on the building across from your offices. Is that how a polite guest behaves?
How many parking stalls were taken out of public service at Veterans Park to handle the staging of the Car Show Downtown?
I can add sexual assault and armed robbery to the statement I made to the City Council regarding my support of the Safe Routes to Schools grant application that seems to have died a quiet death.
We have had vehicles sideswiped by hit-and-run drivers, a car roll over on its roof and damage a parked car, two school children injured by vehicles, crossing the street and the daily occurrence of vehicles running the Stop signs, or talking/texting on their cell phones as they zip down the street.
You can imagine my concern when I see children trying to flag down vehicles so they can purchase a car wash for a fundraiser.
We obviously have a problem with pick-up/drop-off areas for the students of Culver City High School, Culver City Middle School, Farragut Drive Elementary, the Center for Child Development and now possibly the soon-to-be relocated Culver Park High School, I see School District Employee Parking Permits on vehicles in the surrounding residential streets.
Many drivers wait at the curb on my block, engines running, for phone calls from their students coming out of the CCUSD Quad-Campus (perhaps not the pre-Kindergarden. I understand they have to be signed in by whomever is dropping them off).
The city needs to work on having events and activities that do not impact the residential areas over and over and over.
Mr. Heyl may be contacted at john_heyl@sbcglobal.net
