Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutStaff Report to the Traffic Safety Committee (June 8, 2011)NATIONAL CITY TRAFFIC SAFETY COMMITTEE AGENDA REPORT FOR JUNE 8, 2011 ITEM NO. 2011-12 ITEM TITLE: FRONT OF 115-119 E. 81-" STREET (BY T. MCBRIDE) PREPARED BY: Stephen Manganiello, Engineering Division DISCUSSION: 1 REQUEST FOR INSTALLATION OF 30-MINUTE PARKING IN Mr. Thomas McBride, owner of the businesses at 115, 117 and 119 E. 8th Street, has requested 30-minute parking in order to create higher parking turnover for his customers and allow for more efficient enforcement. He has experienced drivers not associated with his businesses parking for extended periods of time, thereby limiting parking access for his customers. Staff visited the site and observed that there are approximately five parking spaces on the north side of E. 8th Street between A Avenue and the alley. Four spaces are "unrestricted" parking, while one space in front of 119 E. 8th Street is signed as 20- minute parking. Installation of time restricted parking is appropriate in business districts to encourage higher parking turnover for customers and more efficient enforcement. STAFF RECOMMENDATION: In order to increase parking turnover and allow for more efficient enforcement, staff recommends converting 90 feet of existing curb parking in front of 115-119 E. 8th Street to 30-minute parking, restricted daily from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM. EXHIBITS: 1. Correspondence 2. Location Map 3. Photo 2011-12 1 McBRIDE FAMILY TRUST Agents: Tom or Karen McBride 5289 APPIAN WAY, LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA, 90803 PHONE 562-433-4147 E-mail: khmcb@verizon.net ktmcb5289@verizon.net City of National City Engineering Division Atten: Traffic Safety Committee 1243 National City Blvd. National City, CA, 91950-4301 © ram' 5/4/2011 I met with Ms.Maryam Babalci and Mr. Stephen Manganiello on May 3 discussing a sex@s parking problem in front of the three stores our family trust owns on East 8th Street. The stores are = 115, 117 and 119 East 8th Street. 0 This is not a safety issue but it is a very serious business problem for the tenants of ourippoperty. c- Parking is of course a very important factor for the success of any business venture. The,�r are 0 five parking spaces from the corner of A Street on 8th Street to the alley next to store One of the spaces directly in front of 119 is a 20 minute limited parking space. This is a two hour limited parking time area for the other spaces. No one pays any attention to the parking regulations. For instance a Silverado pick up truck parks in one of the spaces early each day, normally about 8 AM or so and leaves after 5 PM License number 8V02806. Several other cars and pickups do the same. While attempting to locate the drivers of these cars I learned one person was an employee of the Big Ben store across the street and another was an employee of one of the pawn shops located further up the street. I did this while holding open house on our one vacant store, #115 last Friday, Monday, Tuesday and part of Wed. 8th Street is of course one of the busiest streets in the city so customers of our stores need to have drivers pay reasonable attention to the parking regulations. I have been engaged in the real estate and development business now for over 50 years and have experienced these kinds of problems from the border all the way up to Los Angeles over these years. As I explained to both Stephen and Maryam we learned that by having limited parking time and also frequent traffic patrols the business people experienced significantly greater business success and the cities involved received significant income from the parking tickets issued to the violators by regularly paroling the street. Stephen suggested removing the 20 minute parking space and having all of the 5 spaces marked as 30 minute parking spaces. Incidentally the Silverado pickup truck mentioned above parked all day in the 20 minute parking space last Monday. Our family and our tenants would really appreciate if the Traffic Safety Committee would give serious consideration to this 30 minute parking limitation for all of these spaces and also fallow through with regular patrols of the street issuing parking tickets to violators. cerely, mks McBride 2 Location Map 115-119 E. 8th Street (looking northwest) 4