Recommendation to request City Manager return to council within 90 days to: • Report back on the current city ordinances regarding residential parking requirements for garage use, what efforts the city undertakes to enforce such ordinances, and recommendations of how these ordinances can be better utilized to enforce these ordinances in parking impacted areas; • Work with Development Services to report back on the permitting process for garage expansion and retrofitting permits, and the feasibility of expediting and streamlining incentivizing residents to bring their garages up to code for parking use; and • Report on the feasibility of the city sponsoring a community garage clean-up day where large-scale trash disposal and hauling is provided for the residents who choose to participate in the clean-up day.
Thank you. So let's move forward with item number 27. Please. Item 27 is communication from Councilwoman Price, Councilwoman Gonzalez and Councilmember Peers recommendation to request the city manager to report back to council within 90 days on current city ordinances regarding residential parking requirements for garage use. Thank you, Councilman Price. Thank you. This item actually has come to us as a result of a parking study that was commissioned by the Belmont Store, Belmont Shore Parking Commission. And they came back with a series of recommendations. And this is one of the recommendations that staff has communicated to the residents they would be supporting. So I'm not sure I know there's someone here from Public Works, but the item pretty much speaks for itself. It's trying to encourage people to clean out their garages so that they can park in their garages. We have a lot of parking impacted neighborhoods, and the goal is just to try to encourage and streamline the permitting process so that people who want to remodel their garages so that the modern cars can fit. And some of these homes were built in the twenties and thirties. They can't fit their cars in there. So we want to make sure that we provide an environment that allows for that to happen and support our neighborhood organizations who are working on efforts to do community cleanups and things of that nature. And since staff is supporting this recommendation, I ask my colleagues to do so as well. Thank you, Councilmember Pearce. Yes. I want to thank my colleague, Councilmember Councilwoman Price, for bringing this item forward. I think it's important, you know, that we are enforcing the rules that are on the books. And if we're not enforcing them, we should, of course, revisit them and make sure that we're adjusting as needed. And so I'm thankful for this item as being in a parking impacted district. I also want to say that while we're looking at the permitting process to try to assist people that are going through this process, they were also included in the report to establish a process for those who might be able to prove financial hardship by giving them more time to adjust the situation, whether it's, you know, rebuilding their garage or cleaning out their garage, that we include that in the report as well. I know I've had a couple of calls into my office from constituents that have had that issue, but I do ask my colleagues to support us in this item. Thank you. Thank you. So the scene is open. Any public comment on this item saying no members, please cast your vote.