At Yesterday's City Hall Meeting, A Reprieve for Beachwood Drive Residents
About thirty Hollywoodland residents, including many residents of Beachwood Drive, attended yesterday's Transportation Committee meeting at City Hall. Some of us were able to speak about the City's proposal to end daytime parking on the east side of Beachwood Drive. Among the consequences of the proposed ban--none of which the Committee seemed to have anticipated--are the following:
1. Every car traveling on Beachwood Drive would have to make a U-turn in order to park on the (legal) west side, since the street is a dead-end accessible only from the south.
2. People whose houses are on the east side would have to cross busy Beachwood Drive in order to get home, a particularly risky exercise for the street's elderly and disabled residents.
3. Many of the vehicles seeking parking along Beachwood Drive are service vehicles, including large trucks and moving vans. Their U-turns would halt traffic in both directions, increasing congestion.
4. A dearth of parking on Beachwood Drive would create more congestion on Hollywoodland's already overcrowded side streets.
The Committee granted a 30-day stay for further study and new proposals. Stay tuned for further details.