I thought maybe you could help us, the 20 tenants who live at 8680 Washington Blvd., Culver City, and the employees of the commerical spaces at this location.
It is a mixed use building, across from the Helms Bakery. I manage it, and it is a great place to live and work.
As the area has become more desirable with more and more people visiting during the day, our parking lot really needs to be used only by customers from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
I tell the tenants who live here and the employees of the commerical spaces to not use the lot, that it is for customers. They need to park on the side streets. This used to be easy because all streets around here have plenty of daytime parking.
This no longer is the case.
Neighbors on all of the side streets have gone to the city and obtained parking restrictions on their street.
Now we tenants and employees have a hard time finding parking spaces. Nobody wants to get a ticket. So we hunt and hunt, going four or five blocks away at least to find a spot, all to void a ticket.
While there are plenty of spaces on the surrounding side streets all around our building, no one can use them for more than an hour or two without getting a ticket.
Every morning, if you are one of the 20 tenants here, but you work from home or walk to work or use public transportation, you have to move your car from the lot to streets far away and move your car back into the lot at night.
The employees who come here each day have to hunt and hunt, park many blocks away, and hike to work. It has become a daily hassle for all of us.
Who can help us get permits to park on these side streets? We would like permits allowing us to park on any of the two or three streets around our buidling.
This way, we would all be dispersed throughout the streets around the building, leaving the parking lot for the customers, and everyone would benefit.
Mr. Birnbaum may be contacted at markbirn@gmail.com
Mayor Andy Weissman responds:
“Staff is currently reviewing the nearly 100 residential preferential parking areas for logic, need and consistency. The real issues he raises are part of the consideration. I suspect that there will be changes suggested by staff, but I do not know the timetable for consideration by the Council.”
