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Norwalk Boulevard merchants tell council bike-lane study must protect street parking
Summary
Multiple Norwalk Boulevard business owners told the Hawaiian Gardens City Council they were not directly notified about a proposed bike-lane study and urged the city to avoid removing on-street parking that they say their customers rely on.
Business owners along Norwalk Boulevard told the Hawaiian Gardens City Council on June 11 that they learned too late about a city study of bike lanes and warned that removing street parking would harm small merchants.
The comments came during the public-comment period. Kathleen Wickelman said she represents her mother, Helen Gonzalez, who owns three commercial units; Wickelman said property owners received little or no notice about the proposal and as a result did not have an early opportunity to weigh in. “Nothing was mailed nor emailed to the property owners,” she said. “A few people here and there received flyers, but that information did not get passed on to all the…
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