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Nov 01, 2024

Redondo Beach eases its ban on parking during street sweeping hours – Daily Breeze

If you can’t find a parking spot across the street on sweeping days in Redondo Beach, you may not have to worry. The city is once again easing up on enforcing bans on parking during street sweeping

If you can’t find a parking spot across the street on sweeping days in Redondo Beach, you may not have to worry.

The city is once again easing up on enforcing bans on parking during street sweeping hours, reversing course shortly after deciding to crack down on the issue.

People can park their cars after both the street sweeper passes and code enforcement inspects the road for illegally parked cars, rather than waiting until the posted hours have ended to move their vehicles back. The City Council voted unanimously on the new policy this week.

The leadership panel in July had voted to prohibit parking during the entirety of street sweeping hours, stopping the unofficial courtesy that the city has extended for years that allowed people to park on the street right after the sweeper passes.

Now the courtesy is back and formalized. The city will codify the rule during a second reading of the ordinance at the Sept. 17 council meeting.

The initial change was brought on in July after folks had been complaining about non-compliance with the lenient rule, according to a staff report. People were seeing illegally parked cars going un-cited, the report said; people also complained that the street can’t be cleaned properly because of it, and that some residents were leaving multiple cars parked for days-on-end — except during street sweeping — limiting others’ access to street parking.

But the crack-down surfaced other community parking and street sweeping policy concerns, and city staffers ultimately started allowing cars to be parked during restricted hours if both the street sweeper and code enforcement vehicle had passed. The new practice, per the staff report, has so far been generally received well by the community.

Later this month, it will become official policy.

Requiring people to wait to park their cars until after the enforcement vehicles pass is intended make it easier for parking enforcement officers to determine which cars are illegally parked.

The Redondo Beach Police Department is also currently testing technology to track street sweeping routes in real-time with a map that the public will ultimately have access to, as well as researching putting license plate reader cameras on the code enforcement vehicles, which would issue parking citations automatically.