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Council delays permanent approval for Paseo Adelanto parking after neighbor complaints
Summary
Council voted 3-1 to continue a decision on making daytime parking on the east side of Paseo Adelanto permanent, keeping the current temporary arrangement (13 daytime spaces, overnight prohibited) while staff studies alternate striping and the pending city parking study.
The San Juan Capistrano City Council on Sept. 2 declined to adopt staff dvice to permanently allow daytime parking along portions of the east side of Paseo Adelanto, instead voting to continue the item until the citywide parking study and a traffic-engineering analysis of alternate striping can be completed.
Jeremy Hoenbaum, director of engineering and environmental services, told the council that the current configuration provides 13 on-street daytime spaces on the east side of Paseo Adelanto (down from roughly 16 when temporary parking was first allowed during City Hall construction). Hoenbaum recommended adopting a resolution to permanently allow parking in those locations and said staff found the action categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act under the cited guideline (staff referenced CEQA, section 15301 in their presentation).
Neighbors and council members raised safety and nuisance concerns. Property owner Matt Spalding said his family has owned the adjacent property for decades and described repeated incidents of loitering: "there's a lot of people starting to loiter out there, and they were laying on our grass and smoking and cleaning their cars," and he said some tenants have complained about the activity. City staff and the city manager responded that calls for service and deputy observations do not support frequent or ongoing issues and noted a 24/7 law enforcement facility adjacent to City Hall.
Councilmembers debated whether to formalize the temporary arrangement or to keep it temporary while staff studies alternative striping that might place parking on the west side to create more spaces without reducing sight distance for industrial-vehicle turning. One councilmember moved to continue the item until the parking study is complete and to maintain the current status (temporary daytime parking, no overnight parking). A substitute motion to adopt the staff recommendation and make the change permanent failed, and the motion to continue passed 3 to 1.
The continuation preserves the existing daytime parking (with the current overnight prohibition) while directing staff to work with the traffic engineer and return to council with analysis and recommendations, anticipated in early 2026.
