Most RPP Changes Approved by County Board
The County Board, in a session lasting over 2 hours, approved an overhaul of the County’s popular Residential Permit Parking (RPP) Program despite numerous objections from residents and civic associations. Letters from a dozen civic associations were received with only one expressing broad support. Letters from over 100 residents were also received. Unfortunately the County Board failed to publish any resident’s letters; 23 resident’s letters in opposition were CC’d to LVCA.
The Board voted unanimously to adopt most of the unpopular revisions. Changes will go into effect in April; current permits and passes expire July 1.
Community Wins
● Paid 2-hour parking by anyone rejected
● Existing RPP locations & hours unchanged
● More households eligible to apply for RPP
Community Losses
● Limit households with driveways to 2 permits
● Potential permit price increase to cover full cost of program (may double)
● Grant permit eligibility to many kinds of non-residents
● Low-cost all-zones permits for developers
● Exempts car-share vehicles from all RPP restrictions (24-hour limit)
● Street must be an absurd 85% full to apply for RPP (was 75%)
● Petition must be signed by an absurd 80% of street residents (was 60%)
● Unclear ability to make adjustments as congestion problems increase
● Offloads private costs (developers, bars, etc.) onto the community
● No consideration of other means to solve purported parking problems
● Poor community outreach to review proposal accepted by Board
● Refusal to meet with civic associations to review proposal accepted by Board
● Discarding of most “social and environmental” RPP objectives
● Open RPP to legal challenge by discarding SCOTUS protection
County News Release
Letters from Civic Associations
Video of County Board Meeting RPP starts at 51:00