Following the Feb 15th meeting at Mark Twain Elementary where a presentation was made from the City Traffic Engineer, Dave Roseman, regarding potential traffic enhancements and mitigations that could be made to calm traffic in and around the Lakewood Village area, I put a survey online recapping these proposals to gauge support from Lakewood Village residents […]

More than 132 residents of Lakewood Village attended a Community Discussion Forum at Mark Twain Elementary School auditorium on Friday, February 15th to hear and discuss proposed traffic enhancements and neighborhood traffic calming measures for the Lakewood Village area.
The proposals were presented by City of Long Beach Traffic Engineer Dave Roseman, who has been working […]

If you live near the flood control area on Los Coyotes Diagonal you might have noticed that the street has been marked for as many years as I can remember as a “bike path.” The marking means that vehicles of any size cannot park in the bike path.
Why? Because as part of the state bike lane […]

Over a year ago, a constitutent came to me complaining that it had been the practice in the City to allow car rental agencies to utilize city streets to park their inventory. For a year, I pursued this issue. As we grappled with other residential parking issues. I did not feel it was fair to […]

Since last November, I have been trying to get the City to move forward to deal with the growing problem of RV and oversized vehicle parking on our residential streets. Despite having two public hearings on this issue through joint hearings of the Transportation and Infrastructure and Housing and Neighborhoods Committees of the City Council, […]

Last week and today at Council, I responded to numerous calls from residents of the 5th about the recent notifications sent to hundreds of homeowners telling them to remove backyard canopies and to cease parking more than one car in a driveway when a garage can only hold one car.
Existing City codes do prohibit a […]

Rvs, oversized vehicles, cars for sale, cars used as advertisements, limos in neighborhoods, uttached trailers, neighbors fighting neighbors, no parking in residential areas…all these issues came up last night at the Council’s public hearing at Millikan High School on the “safe parking” of these types of vehicles.
Bottom line: most residents don’t like what is happening […]