Comments on: Venice Residents Sue California Coastal Commission Over Denial of Parking Restrictions

By: Cajas y embalajes de carton

Cajas y embalajes de carton — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:58:00 +0000

I’d just like to say I hate what Venice has become. It’s basically north side Santa Monica now.
So so sad to see now

By: Matt Mason

Matt Mason — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:29:39 +0000

@venicenative — I’m sure the Venice homeowners were well aware of the tourists when they purchased their homes. The problem isn’t the tourists, who, by definition, visit and then leave. The problem is that tourists, locals who come to the beach, locals who come to shop, people who come to dine in restaurants, visitors to the homeowners, and others can’t find parking because the people are squatting in their RVs and other vehicles for days, weeks, months, and possibly even longer.

Note that it is ALREADY ILLEGAL to sleep in your vehicle, including RVs and cars, overnight on Venice streets. If the police or other responsible officials would simply enforce existing law, there would be no need to try to create overnight parking districts.

As for your last comment about the sewage, I fully agree with you that, as is the case with sleeping in vehicles overnight, existing laws should be enforced by the appropriate officials.

By: venicenative

venicenative — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:37:15 +0000

If you don’t like beachgoers who arrive by car everyday, maybe you shouldn’t decide to build your nest in the middle of a tourist attraction?

Seriously, if you don’t like tourists and rv’s why do you choose to live in a place that attracts them?

Why don’t you go move inland instead of taking up the beach and trying to restrict everyone else from enjoying it in their own way?

As for sewage, the health department should impound vehicles with leaking sewage. Don’t send a metermaid to do a health inspectors job.

By: Matt Mason

Matt Mason — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:36:16 +0000

It sounds like the situation is quite different in Beverly Hills. In Venice, the streets are far from empty, especially in the summer when thousands of beachgoers arrive by car every day. Plus, the proposed parking restrictions were only for 2-5 a.m. or 2-6 a.m., depending on the block, and they only involved 5 blocks or quadrants. So if you can’t find street parking in Venice for your doctor’s office, yoga center, or pot dispensary, it’s in part because many spots are occupied by RV and car squatters.

By: rogerdodger

rogerdodger — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:03:52 +0000

Yeah. It’s tough. But I’m always questioning the motives on anyone who wants to restrict parking.

I think about the empty streets of Beverly Hills neighborhoods where rich home owners used the weight of law to block all parking but their own. So you go to the doctor’s office over there and after looking at all the available but illegal parking you are forced to deal with one of the three horsemen of the Apokolips: Valet Parking…(the other two being anyone in favor of Pre Paid Legal and Identity Theft Protection)

And our taxes go to paying for those streets BTW.

By: Lucinda Michele

Lucinda Michele — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:44:18 +0000

Wow, you’re right. This is not the way to handle the problem.