Agenda - City of Santa Monica

expressed unanimous support for more stringent preferential parking regulations. Full
meeting comments are included as Attachment D.
In response to ongoing nonresident parking in the neighborhood generated by
Exposition Boulevard businesses, as well as an anticipated increase in parking demand
in the vicinity to be generated by the Expo station at 26 th Street and Olympic Boulevard,
staff recommends amending the regulations in this neighborhood to be: “No parking 8
a.m. to 10 p. m. daily, except by permit.” Extending the regulations to 10 p. m. would
prevent most non-resident parkers from using of neighborhood streets as a park and
ride for the Expo station. Adjacent blocks are included in the recommendation to
expedite the preferential parking implementation process should they submit complete
petitions in the future.
Alternatives
The Council could maintain the existing conditions or adopt different hours and types of
restrictions than recommended.
Environmental Analysis
The proposed project has been d etermined to be c ategorically exempt from the
provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), pursuant to Article 19,
Section 15301 (c) which defines Class 1 exempt projects in the following way: "Class 1
consists of the operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, leasing, licensing, or minor
alteration of existing public or private structures, facilities, mechanical equipment, or
topographical features, involving negligible or no expansion of use beyond that existing
at the time of the lead agency’s determination." This exemption includes: “Existing
highways and s treets, sidewalks, gutters, bicycle and pe destrian trails, and similar
facilities." Preferential parking zones involve only the issuance of permits for the use of
an existing public street and include negligible or no expansion of this existing use.
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