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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRES-25-7501 City Parking Regulations Amended Page 1 of 7 RES-25-7502 CITY OF HERMOSA BEACH RESOLUTION NO. RES-25-7502 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HERMOSA BEACH, CALIFORNIA, ESTABLISHING AND RESTATING THE PROVISIONS OF THE CITY’S RESIDENTIAL PARKING PERMIT PROGRAM AND RELATED REGULATIONS INTO A SINGLE RESOLUTION REPEALING AND SUPERSEDING ALL PREVIOUS RESOLUTIONS RELATED TO THE CITY’S RESIDENTIAL PARKING PERMIT PROGRAM AND RELATED REGULATIONS AND FINDING THE SAME EXEMPT FROM THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT WHEREAS, the City of Hermosa Beach has established and maintained a preferential residential parking permit program on certain streets in the City pursuant to California Vehicle Code § 22507 for decades; and WHEREAS, the City’s Residential Parking Permit Program and related regulations are codified in numerous resolutions dating back to the early 1980s, which requires review and compilation to get the complete regulatory environment; and WHEREAS, more recently, the City Council approved the 2019 Coastal Zone Parking Management Study which included recommendations to improve parking management strategies for the City; and WHEREAS, the Study noted that more residential parking permits are issued for those in the impacted coastal parking area than total number of available spaces in that same area; and WHEREAS, at its February 28, 2023 meeting, the City Council made revisions to its residential parking permit program that limited the number of residential permits per residence and instituted other vehicle registration requirements for permit issuance; and WHEREAS, at its October 10, 2023 meeting the City Council adopted a resolution that authorized the issuance of a single “guest” parking permit for each residential address in the impacted coastal parking area provided the residential Docusign Envelope ID: 51209B37-7ED9-4953-9A16-93A2B24CC319 Page 2 of 7 RES-25-7502 address did not exceed the numeric cap of residential parking permits authorized under the City’s Residential Parking Permit Program; and WHEREAS, at its January 23, 2024 meeting the City Council made other revisions and amendments to the City’s parking program including raising the cost of the Residential Parking Permits and Guest Parking Permits, limit the number of annual employee permits, other administrative direction on the number of residences any individual can have, penalty for misuse of the system and increase the cost of the 12-Hour daily lot permit, 24-Hour daily lot permit and daily meter pass; and WHEREAS, the City Council desires to place all provisions and regulations of the City’s Residential Parking Permit Program and related regulations into a single resolution for ease of reference and clarity with the public and to repeal and supersede all previous resolutions related to the City’s Residential Parking Permit Program and related regulations. NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HERMOSA BEACH, CALIFORNIA, DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Pursuant to California Vehicle Code § 22507, the City of Hermosa Beach establishes preferential parking privileges on certain streets in the City. This Resolution repeals and supersedes all previous resolutions related to the City’s Residential Parking Permit Program and related regulations. SECTION 2. Use “The City Council finds and determines as follows: (a) Parking on residential streets west of Loma Drive is subject to heavy use and demand from non-resident recreational commuters; (b) The area west of Loma Drive and the west side of Cypress Avenue between 11th Street and Pier Avenue already provides only marginally adequate on-street parking for residents; (c) There exists a City-wide impact on residential parking from recreational commuters and other visitors which has not yet been specifically identified; Docusign Envelope ID: 51209B37-7ED9-4953-9A16-93A2B24CC319 Page 3 of 7 RES-25-7502 (d) Based on the City's experience and that of other coastal cities, it is reasonable to anticipate that the establishment of the Impacted Parking Area proposed in this resolution will have the effect of causing increased recreational commuter parking in areas east of Loma Drive; (e) The large number of recreational commuters and other visitors have a detrimental effect on the health, safety and general welfare of the City by: 1) Increasing non-resident traffic volume and parking demands; 2) Creating unreasonable burdens on residents in gaining access to their dwelling; 3) Exacerbating noise and air pollution and creating new trash and litter problems; 4) Causing greater risk of traffic accidents; 5) Increasing risk of criminal activity; 6) Creating a risk of depressing property values; 7) Threatening to overwhelm the City’s capacity to maintain and protect the residential character of its neighborhoods; 8) The City’s Residential Parking Permit Program in the Impacted Area is designed to alleviate the problems cited here which arise from increasing demands of parking in residential neighborhood. 9) This resolution is consistent with the terms of California Coastal Commission Permit No. 5-82-251, as amended. SECTION 3. The following boundaries shall constitute the “Impacted Area” where the City’s Residential Parking Permit Program shall apply: The impacted area is bound by the North and South City boundaries; by the Strand on the west; and by Loma Drive, Park Avenue, or Morningside Drive on the east. Parking spaces on the West side of Cypress Avenue between 11th Street and Pier Avenue are also included. SECTION 4. The City’s Residential Parking Permit Program is hereby established in the Impacted Area subject to the following: (a) Residential Parking Permits are limited to three per year per residence (only one of which may be a hang tag permit, the rest shall be windshield stickers), to vehicles registered to the residence., Applicants shall provide proof of a valid driver’s license and valid vehicle registration at the address requested. The City Docusign Envelope ID: 51209B37-7ED9-4953-9A16-93A2B24CC319 Page 4 of 7 RES-25-7502 Manager may, in unique circumstances, accept alternative proof of residence if a driver’s license at the address requested cannot be provide. For purposes of this program an individual shall only be allowed to reside at a single address in the City. A single extra permit in excess of the maximum 3 Residential parking Permits per residence may be issued by the City Manager or designee, in the sole discretion of the City Manager or designee, upon a showing that there exists a number of registered vehicles to different and unique drivers at a specific property which does not have adequate on-site parking to accommodate the number of vehicles in excess of the 3 Residential Parking Permits allowed. The burden of proof shall be upon the applicant and the City Manager shall develop adequate application standards to the satisfaction of the City Manager. The City Manager may waive the vehicle registration requirement in this Resolution upon a showing of good cause. The City Manager or designee’s decision shall be final. In the event of resident turnover at a specific residence, a signed lease for a period of at least six (6) months executed within the previous thirty (30) days by the owner of record of the property shall be required to issue new passes to new and different drivers than the previous tenants. The previously issued Residential Parking Permits shall be cancelled upon a showing of new resident at any specific residence. Issuance of permits allowed by this section shall, along with the other conditions mentioned above, only be issued for vehicles that do not have any outstanding parking citations in the City. (b)Guest Parking Permits. Each residential address in the impacted coastal parking area shall be eligible for a single “Guest” Parking Permit provided this residential address does not exceed the cap of residential parking permits authorized under the City’s Residential Parking Permit Program. An applicant shall submit information as required by the City, demonstrating to the satisfaction of the City that the applicant resides at an address in the Impacted Area. No vehicle registration of any kind will be required for this “Guest” Parking Permit. The City shall only issue a single “Guest” Parking Permit per parking permit cycle per residential address. This single “Guest” Parking Permit limit per parking permit cycle is inclusive of any claim that a permit was lost or stolen. The first applicant that satisfies the application criteria shall be issued the “Guest” Parking Permit. In no event will any residential address be issued more than one transferable hang tag parking permit. Docusign Envelope ID: 51209B37-7ED9-4953-9A16-93A2B24CC319 Page 5 of 7 RES-25-7502 (c) Commercial Enterprises. The City Manager or designee may issue a single affixed Residential Parking Permit to bona fide employees of the businesses within the Impacted Area (i.e., only one permit per employee) and each owner of a business in the Impacted Area may be issued one affixed Residential Parking Permit subject to the discretion of the City Manager or designee. (d) In the event the City Manager or designee determines that an applicant has submitted an application with altered documents, otherwise lied or committed fraud in obtaining a permit, or misused a permit/violated the conditions of permit issuance (e.g. sold their permit to another individual who does not qualify), then that individual will be prohibited from receiving any permit under this program for two (2) years. SECTION 5. Residential Parking Permits and Guest Parking Permits shall be valid from the first day of March to the 28th or 29th day of February each year unless the terms are extended or modified by the City Manager. SECTION 6. Pursuant to the provisions of this resolution, meter posts painted or maintained with yellow color code and residential parking spaces posted one- hour parking will allow resident permit parking daily, except that these permits are invalid during the hours posted for street sweeping operations, not to exceed 72 hours at one location, or a day permit which allows all-day parking and is valid only on the day of use, except during the hours posted for street sweeping operations. SECTION 7. It is hereby designated that in those metered areas where the parking meter post adjacent to each parking space is painted yellow and in those areas posted one-hour parking between Beach Drive on the West, Loma/Morningside on the East, and the City boundaries on the North and South, exclusive of any commercially zoned frontage, a vehicle may occupy said restricted parking space providing said vehicle has affixed thereon in the lower right hand corner of the windshield of the vehicle a valid resident parking permit, or has hanging from the front rear-view mirror located on the inside of the vehicle a valid resident guest parking permit, or has a day permit which allows all-day parking and is valid only on the day of use between the hours of 8.a.m. to 5 p.m. SECTION 8. Use Fees for Residential Parking Permits and Guest Parking Permits shall be $60. Docusign Envelope ID: 51209B37-7ED9-4953-9A16-93A2B24CC319 Page 6 of 7 RES-25-7502 The amount of these fees shall be reduced by one-half on the first day of September each year. Where a person to whom a valid Residential Parking Permit has been issued can furnish proof satisfactory to the City Manager or designee that said permit has been destroyed (portion of Parking Permit or portion of windshield to which permit has been attached), or stolen, the Department may issue a duplicate permit upon payment of a replacement fee of $3.00 to cover clerical cost. It is understood that the permits reported stolen will be immediately confiscated by the City if found on any vehicle and that stolen permits are thereafter completely void. Vehicles with stolen permits shall be subject to immediate ticketing and towing. SECTION 9. It shall be the sole responsibility of the owner, operator, manager, or driver of a vehicle for which a valid parking permit has been issued to become familiar with the provisions for and the limitations on the use of the parking permit and ignorance of these provisions and limitations shall not be claimed as defense in any action brought for illegal use of the permit. SECTION 10. In the Impacted Area, that area posted "One-Hour Parking", parking on-street shall be restricted to one-hour parking from 10:00 a.m. to midnight, every day during summer months, which is defined, for the purpose of this Section, as May 15th through September 15th. SECTION 11. Environmental Review. Pursuant to CEQA Guidelines section 15061 (b) (3), it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the activity contemplated by this resolution may have a significant effect on the environment. SECTION 12. This resolution shall take effect immediately. SECTION 13. Severability. If any section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion of this resolution is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision will not affect the validity of the remainder of this resolution. The City Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this resolution, and each and every section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, Docusign Envelope ID: 51209B37-7ED9-4953-9A16-93A2B24CC319 Page 7 of 7 RES-25-7502 subdivisions, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions thereof is declared invalid or unconstitutional. SECTION 14. Record of Proceedings. This resolution takes effect immediately and that the City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this resolution; shall cause the same to be entered among the original resolutions of said City; and shall make a minute of the passage and adoption thereof in the records of the proceedings of the City Council of said City in the minutes of the meeting at which time same is passed and adopted. The City Clerk shall keep a copy of same along with such other documents and records of proceedings as may be designated by the City Manager. SECTION 15. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this resolution; shall cause the same to be entered among the original resolutions of said city; and shall make a minute of the passage and adoption thereof in the records of the proceedings of the City Council of said City in the minutes of the meeting at which the same is passed and adopted. PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED on this 28th day of January 2025. Mayor Rob Saemann PRESIDENT of the City Council and MAYOR of the City of Hermosa Beach, CA APPROVED AS TO FORM: ________________________________ Todd Leishman ATTEST: ________________________________ Myra Maravilla City Clerk Interim City Attorney Docusign Envelope ID: 51209B37-7ED9-4953-9A16-93A2B24CC319 State of California ) County of Los Angeles ) ss ) City of Hermosa Beach July 9, 2025 Certification of Council Action RESOLUTION NO. RES-25-7502 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HERMOSA BEACH, CALIFORNIA, ESTABLISHING AND RESTATING THE PROVISIONS OF THE CITY’S RESIDENTIAL PARKING PERMIT PROGRAM AND RELATED REGULATIONS INTO A SINGLE RESOLUTION REPEALING AND SUPERSEDING ALL PREVIOUS RESOLUTIONS RELATED TO THE CITY’S RESIDENTIAL PARKING PERMIT PROGRAM AND RELATED REGULATIONS AND FINDING THE SAME EXEMPT FROM THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT I, Myra Maravilla, City Clerk of the City of Hermosa Beach, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing Resolution No. RES-25-7502 was duly approved and adopted by the City Council of said City at its regular meeting thereof held on the 28th day of January 2025, and passed by the following vote: AYES: MAYOR FRANCOIS, MAYOR PRO TEMPORE SAEMANN, COUNCILMEMBERS DETOY, JACKSON, and KEEGAN NOES: NONE ABSTAIN: NONE ABSENT: NONE ________________________________ Myra Maravilla City Clerk Docusign Envelope ID: 51209B37-7ED9-4953-9A16-93A2B24CC319