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Council directs staff to pursue seasonal residential permits for holiday lighting traffic in Sleepy Hollow area; broader parking code update planned
Summary
Following complaints about traffic and parking during the seasonal holiday-light display in the Sleepy Hollow / Avenue H area, council directed staff to prepare a seasonal preferential-parking permit and to pursue a broader modernization of the city's preferential parking code.
The Redondo Beach City Council agreed Tuesday to pursue a short-term, seasonal preferential-parking permit to address traffic and parking impacts from a popular holiday-light display in the Sleepy Hollow neighborhood (Avenue H and adjoining streets) and asked staff to return later with a comprehensive update to the city's preferential-parking ordinance.
Public Works staff said the current municipal code is prescriptive and administratively cumbersome: each block added to the permit program becomes a separate zone established by ordinance, which limits the city's flexibility to adjust boundaries and implement time-limited solutions. Staff identified opportunities to modernize the program:…
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