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RESOLUTION NO. 13-6825
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HERMOSA
BEACH, CALIFORNIA, ENDORSING PARTICIPATION IN THE
CAR2GO CARSHARING PROGRAM
The City Council of the City of Hermosa Beach does hereby resolve and order as follows:
Section 1. Recitals:
A. WHEREAS, the South Bay Cities Council of Governments (SBCCOG) Board of
Directors approved the South Bay Sustainable Strategy (SBSS) in September, 2010; and
B. WHEREAS, the SBSS calls for the need to identify and implement mobility alternatives
to address congestion reduction and lifestyle enhancement goals and car sharing is one of several
initiatives in the SBSS; and
C. WHEREAS, a car sharing service can reduce the need for second or third vehicles per
household and the South Bay is relatively transit poor, with more than 260,000 secondary vehicles
in South Bay households often making parking difficult to find and adding to personal expense;
and
D. WHEREAS, car2go is prepared to invest in excess of $4 million to bring its car sharing
service to nine of the South Bay cities and no other car sharing service to date has proposed
making the necessary investment; and
E. WHEREAS, car2go has identified an initial operating area in the Cities of El Segundo,
Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Lawndale, Lomita, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, and
Torrance and has expressed an interest in expanding the operating area to other cities in the South
Bay in the future; and
F. WHEREAS, car2go made a presentation to the SBCCOG Board on September 27, 2012 at
which it was stated that car2go is prepared to begin operations by the middle of 2013 but all nine
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cities in the identified operating area would need to approve a permit to exempt certain parking
restrictions; and
G. WHEREAS, California Vehicle Code Section 22507.1 authorizes cities to issue permits to
facilitate car sharing programs; and
H. Car2go made a presentation to the City Council of the City of Hermosa Beach on January
8, 2013 demonstrating the program and its advantages.
Section 2. The car2go program will advance the City's sustainability and carbon neutral
objectives, facilitate efficient use of resources, reduce traffic congestion and individual vehicle
use thereby reducing parking impacts, and provide other benefits, and car2go will compensate
cities for lost parking revenue and sales tax based on location of initiation of the car rental.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, DETERMINED AND ORDERED that
the City of Hermosa Beach agrees to participate in the regional car2go program and to issue car
sharing permits for this program pending the effective date of an amendment to the Hermosa
Beach Municipal Code to allow car sharing services.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 8th day of January, 2013.
PRESIDENT of the
1 ATTEST:
City Clerk
MAYOR of the City of Hermosa Beach, California
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
CITY OF HERMOSA BEACH
I, Elaine Doerfling, City Clerk of the City of Hermosa Beach, California, do
hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution No.13-6825 was duly and regularly passed,
approved and adopted by the City Council of the City of Hermosa Beach at a Regular
Meeting of said Council at the regular place thereof on January 8, 2013.
The vote was as follows
AYES:
Bobko, DiVirgilio, Fishman, Mayor Duclos
NOES:
Tucker
ABSTAIN:
None
ABSENT:
None
Dated: January 9, 2013
Elaine Doerfling, City?e* d