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City planner proposes major parking-reform ordinance to ease development; residents warn about street parking and deliveries
Summary
Planning Director Greg McLean presented a proposed overhaul to Hawthorne’s parking code aimed at reducing development barriers by simplifying commercial parking rules and lowering some residential requirements; residents at the hearing raised concerns about street parking competition, deliveries, and preferential parking pilots.
Planning Director Greg McLean presented a broad package of amendments Tuesday that would consolidate scattered parking rules, replace multiple commercial standards with a smaller set of rates based on gross square footage, introduce parking credits, and reduce some multifamily parking requirements as a way to encourage redevelopment.
McLean told the council the proposed reforms respond to evolving state laws that allow developers to seek parking waivers; by lowering the city’s baseline parking requirement he said developers would be less likely to pursue state waivers that would leave the city with under‑parked developments. “By lowering…
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