Bonnie Neely, Chair & California Coastal Commission Staff

Board of Supervisors 200 Oceangate, 10^th Floor

825 Fifth Street, Room 111 Long Beach, California 90802

Eureka, CA  95501 45 Fremont St., Suite 2000
(707) 476-2394 San Francisco, CA 94105

Dear Commissioner Neely, Commissioners, and Coastal Commission Staff,

The City of Los Angeles proposal for Overnight Parking Districts will restrict where I can park at night and charge me for it, while restricting coastal access and failing to provide meaningful mitigation (replacement parking) in the Venice beachfront neighborhoods where it is needed the most.

Venice has lots of parking problems, but the problems are during the day, on weekends and especially in the summer. Permit parking during those hours and time periods without at least one-for-one replacement parking clearly would violate the Coastal Act. Overnight is the only time there is some semblance of workable parking based on a tenuous balance of resident creativity and the City’s efforts over the last two decades to create more parking opportunities in an historically parking-deficient beachfront area.

This Overnight Parking District proposal is unnecessary.  I've heard it has to do with homeless in living in cars and recreational vehicles on a few residential streets.  Why put all of Venice into a patchwork quilt of districts without any consultation with the affected neighborhoods?  The Districts make no sense, and the accompanying tax that provides no benefit to the community makes no sense.    

If the homeless on specific streets are an issue, that should be dealt with humanely.  But why sweep the entire Venice Coastal Zone into a hodge-podge set of parking districts if only a few streets are impacted and when it is the daytime visitors who do the impacting?  They are gone at night.  I have to scramble for parking all the rest of the time, but I make do.  The City now proposes to limit where I can park at night and also make me pay for it. That’s bad policy on the face of it.

Just because a version of permit parking limited to a few overnight hours can be construed by your staff to be permissible under the Coastal Act doesn’t mean it won’t have an impact on coastal access or that it is even workable in the real world. In other words, just because you CAN approve this ill-conceived proposal doesn’t mean you SHOULD. Please say “no” to permit parking in Venice and tell the City of Los Angeles to go back to the drawing board.

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Very truly yours,

Steve Blank, California Coastal Commissioner & California Coastal Commission Staff

45 Fremont St. Suite 2000 200 Oceangate, 10^th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94105 Long Beach, California 90802

(415) 904-5200

Dear Commissioner Blank and Coastal Commission Staff,

The City of Los Angeles proposal for Overnight Parking Districts will restrict where I can park at night and charge me for it, while restricting coastal access and failing to provide meaningful mitigation (replacement parking) in the Venice beachfront neighborhoods where it is needed the most.

Venice has lots of parking problems, but the problems are during the day, on weekends and especially in the summer. Permit parking during those hours and time periods without at least one-for-one replacement parking clearly would violate the Coastal Act. Overnight is the only time there is some semblance of workable parking based on a tenuous balance of resident creativity and the City’s efforts over the last two decades to create more parking opportunities in an historically parking-deficient beachfront area.

This Overnight Parking District proposal is unnecessary.  I've heard it has to do with homeless in living in cars and recreational vehicles on a few residential streets.  Why put all of Venice into a patchwork quilt of districts without any consultation with the affected neighborhoods?  The Districts make no sense, and the accompanying tax that provides no benefit to the community makes no sense.    

If the homeless on specific streets are an issue, that should be dealt with humanely.  But why sweep the entire Venice Coastal Zone into a hodge-podge set of parking districts if only a few streets are impacted and when it is the daytime visitors who do the impacting?  They are gone at night.  I have to scramble for parking all the rest of the time, but I make do.  The City now proposes to limit where I can park at night and also make me pay for it. That’s bad policy on the face of it.

Just because a version of permit parking limited to a few overnight hours can be construed by your staff to be permissible under the Coastal Act doesn’t mean it won’t have an impact on coastal access or that it is even workable in the real world. In other words, just because you CAN approve this ill-conceived proposal doesn’t mean you SHOULD. Please say “no” to permit parking in Venice and tell the City of Los Angeles to go back to the drawing board.

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Very truly yours,

Sara Wan, California Coastal Commissioner & California Coastal Commission Staff

22350 Carbon Mesa Road 200 Oceangate, 10^th Floor
Malibu, CA 90265 Long Beach, California 90802

(415) 904-5200 45 Fremont St., Suite 2000

San Francisco, CA 94105

Dear Commissioner Wan and Coastal Commission Staff,

The City of Los Angeles proposal for Overnight Parking Districts will restrict where I can park at night and charge me for it, while restricting coastal access and failing to provide meaningful mitigation (replacement parking) in the Venice beachfront neighborhoods where it is needed the most.

Venice has lots of parking problems, but the problems are during the day, on weekends and especially in the summer. Permit parking during those hours and time periods without at least one-for-one replacement parking clearly would violate the Coastal Act. Overnight is the only time there is some semblance of workable parking based on a tenuous balance of resident creativity and the City’s efforts over the last two decades to create more parking opportunities in an historically parking-deficient beachfront area.

This Overnight Parking District proposal is unnecessary.  I've heard it has to do with homeless in living in cars and recreational vehicles on a few residential streets.  Why put all of Venice into a patchwork quilt of districts without any consultation with the affected neighborhoods?  The Districts make no sense, and the accompanying tax that provides no benefit to the community makes no sense.    

If the homeless on specific streets are an issue, that should be dealt with humanely.  But why sweep the entire Venice Coastal Zone into a hodge-podge set of parking districts if only a few streets are impacted and when it is the daytime visitors who do the impacting?  They are gone at night.  I have to scramble for parking all the rest of the time, but I make do.  The City now proposes to limit where I can park at night and also make me pay for it. That’s bad policy on the face of it.

Just because a version of permit parking limited to a few overnight hours can be construed by your staff to be permissible under the Coastal Act doesn’t mean it won’t have an impact on coastal access or that it is even workable in the real world. In other words, just because you CAN approve this ill-conceived proposal doesn’t mean you SHOULD. Please say “no” to permit parking in Venice and tell the City of Los Angeles to go back to the drawing board.

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Very truly yours,

Steven Kram, California Coastal Commissioner & California Coastal Commission Staff

45 Fremont Street, Suite 2000 200 Oceangate, 10^th Floor

San Francisco, CA  94105 Long Beach, California 90802

(415) 904-5200

Dear Commissioner Kram and Coastal Commission Staff,

The City of Los Angeles proposal for Overnight Parking Districts will restrict where I can park at night and charge me for it, while restricting coastal access and failing to provide meaningful mitigation (replacement parking) in the Venice beachfront neighborhoods where it is needed the most.

Venice has lots of parking problems, but the problems are during the day, on weekends and especially in the summer. Permit parking during those hours and time periods without at least one-for-one replacement parking clearly would violate the Coastal Act. Overnight is the only time there is some semblance of workable parking based on a tenuous balance of resident creativity and the City’s efforts over the last two decades to create more parking opportunities in an historically parking-deficient beachfront area.

This Overnight Parking District proposal is unnecessary.  I've heard it has to do with homeless in living in cars and recreational vehicles on a few residential streets.  Why put all of Venice into a patchwork quilt of districts without any consultation with the affected neighborhoods?  The Districts make no sense, and the accompanying tax that provides no benefit to the community makes no sense.    

If the homeless on specific streets are an issue, that should be dealt with humanely.  But why sweep the entire Venice Coastal Zone into a hodge-podge set of parking districts if only a few streets are impacted and when it is the daytime visitors who do the impacting?  They are gone at night.  I have to scramble for parking all the rest of the time, but I make do.  The City now proposes to limit where I can park at night and also make me pay for it. That’s bad policy on the face of it.

Just because a version of permit parking limited to a few overnight hours can be construed by your staff to be permissible under the Coastal Act doesn’t mean it won’t have an impact on coastal access or that it is even workable in the real world. In other words, just because you CAN approve this ill-conceived proposal doesn’t mean you SHOULD. Please say “no” to permit parking in Venice and tell the City of Los Angeles to go back to the drawing board.

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Very truly yours,

Mary K Shallenberger, California Coastal Commissioner & Coastal Commission Staff

45 Fremont St., Suite 2000 200 Oceangate, 10^th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94105 Long Beach, California 90802

(415) 904-5200

Dear Commissioner Shallenberger and Coastal Commission Staff,

The City of Los Angeles proposal for Overnight Parking Districts will restrict where I can park at night and charge me for it, while restricting coastal access and failing to provide meaningful mitigation (replacement parking) in the Venice beachfront neighborhoods where it is needed the most.

Venice has lots of parking problems, but the problems are during the day, on weekends and especially in the summer. Permit parking during those hours and time periods without at least one-for-one replacement parking clearly would violate the Coastal Act. Overnight is the only time there is some semblance of workable parking based on a tenuous balance of resident creativity and the City’s efforts over the last two decades to create more parking opportunities in an historically parking-deficient beachfront area.

This Overnight Parking District proposal is unnecessary.  I've heard it has to do with homeless in living in cars and recreational vehicles on a few residential streets.  Why put all of Venice into a patchwork quilt of districts without any consultation with the affected neighborhoods?  The Districts make no sense, and the accompanying tax that provides no benefit to the community makes no sense.    

If the homeless on specific streets are an issue, that should be dealt with humanely.  But why sweep the entire Venice Coastal Zone into a hodge-podge set of parking districts if only a few streets are impacted and when it is the daytime visitors who do the impacting?  They are gone at night.  I have to scramble for parking all the rest of the time, but I make do.  The City now proposes to limit where I can park at night and also make me pay for it. That’s bad policy on the face of it.

Just because a version of permit parking limited to a few overnight hours can be construed by your staff to be permissible under the Coastal Act doesn’t mean it won’t have an impact on coastal access or that it is even workable in the real world. In other words, just because you CAN approve this ill-conceived proposal doesn’t mean you SHOULD. Please say “no” to permit parking in Venice and tell the City of Los Angeles to go back to the drawing board.

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Very truly yours,

Patrick Kruer, California Coastal Commissioner & California Coastal Commission Staff

The Monarch Group 200 Oceangate, 10^th Floor

7727 Herschel Ave. Long Beach, California 90802
La Jolla, California 92037 45 Fremont St., Suite 2000
(858) 551-4390 San Francisco, CA 94105

Dear Commissioner Kruer and Coastal Commission Staff,

The City of Los Angeles proposal for Overnight Parking Districts will restrict where I can park at night and charge me for it, while restricting coastal access and failing to provide meaningful mitigation (replacement parking) in the Venice beachfront neighborhoods where it is needed the most.

Venice has lots of parking problems, but the problems are during the day, on weekends and especially in the summer. Permit parking during those hours and time periods without at least one-for-one replacement parking clearly would violate the Coastal Act. Overnight is the only time there is some semblance of workable parking based on a tenuous balance of resident creativity and the City’s efforts over the last two decades to create more parking opportunities in an historically parking-deficient beachfront area.

This Overnight Parking District proposal is unnecessary.  I've heard it has to do with homeless in living in cars and recreational vehicles on a few residential streets.  Why put all of Venice into a patchwork quilt of districts without any consultation with the affected neighborhoods?  The Districts make no sense, and the accompanying tax that provides no benefit to the community makes no sense.    

If the homeless on specific streets are an issue, that should be dealt with humanely.  But why sweep the entire Venice Coastal Zone into a hodge-podge set of parking districts if only a few streets are impacted and when it is the daytime visitors who do the impacting?  They are gone at night.  I have to scramble for parking all the rest of the time, but I make do.  The City now proposes to limit where I can park at night and also make me pay for it. That’s bad policy on the face of it.

Just because a version of permit parking limited to a few overnight hours can be construed by your staff to be permissible under the Coastal Act doesn’t mean it won’t have an impact on coastal access or that it is even workable in the real world. In other words, just because you CAN approve this ill-conceived proposal doesn’t mean you SHOULD. Please say “no” to permit parking in Venice and tell the City of Los Angeles to go back to the drawing board.

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Very truly yours,

Ross Mirkarimi, Supervisor & California Coastal Commission Staff

City and County of San Francisco 200 Oceangate, 10^th Floor
City Hall Long Beach, California 90802
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 282 45 Fremont St., Suite 2000
San Francisco, CA 94102 San Francisco, CA 94105

(415) 554-7630

Dear Commissioner Mirkarimi and Coastal Commission Staff,

The City of Los Angeles proposal for Overnight Parking Districts will restrict where I can park at night and charge me for it, while restricting coastal access and failing to provide meaningful mitigation (replacement parking) in the Venice beachfront neighborhoods where it is needed the most.

Venice has lots of parking problems, but the problems are during the day, on weekends and especially in the summer. Permit parking during those hours and time periods without at least one-for-one replacement parking clearly would violate the Coastal Act. Overnight is the only time there is some semblance of workable parking based on a tenuous balance of resident creativity and the City’s efforts over the last two decades to create more parking opportunities in an historically parking-deficient beachfront area.

This Overnight Parking District proposal is unnecessary.  I've heard it has to do with homeless in living in cars and recreational vehicles on a few residential streets.  Why put all of Venice into a patchwork quilt of districts without any consultation with the affected neighborhoods?  The Districts make no sense, and the accompanying tax that provides no benefit to the community makes no sense.    

If the homeless on specific streets are an issue, that should be dealt with humanely.  But why sweep the entire Venice Coastal Zone into a hodge-podge set of parking districts if only a few streets are impacted and when it is the daytime visitors who do the impacting?  They are gone at night.  I have to scramble for parking all the rest of the time, but I make do.  The City now proposes to limit where I can park at night and also make me pay for it. That’s bad policy on the face of it.

Just because a version of permit parking limited to a few overnight hours can be construed by your staff to be permissible under the Coastal Act doesn’t mean it won’t have an impact on coastal access or that it is even workable in the real world. In other words, just because you CAN approve this ill-conceived proposal doesn’t mean you SHOULD. Please say “no” to permit parking in Venice and tell the City of Los Angeles to go back to the drawing board.

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Very truly yours,

Dave Potter, Supervisor & California Coastal Commission Staff

County of Monterey, District 5 200 Oceangate, 10^th Floor
1200 Aguajito Road, Suite 001 Long Beach, California 90802
Monterey, CA 93940 45 Fremont St., Suite 2000
(831) 647-7755 San Francisco, CA 94105

Dear Commissioner Potter and Coastal Commission Staff,

The City of Los Angeles proposal for Overnight Parking Districts will restrict where I can park at night and charge me for it, while restricting coastal access and failing to provide meaningful mitigation (replacement parking) in the Venice beachfront neighborhoods where it is needed the most.

Venice has lots of parking problems, but the problems are during the day, on weekends and especially in the summer. Permit parking during those hours and time periods without at least one-for-one replacement parking clearly would violate the Coastal Act. Overnight is the only time there is some semblance of workable parking based on a tenuous balance of resident creativity and the City’s efforts over the last two decades to create more parking opportunities in an historically parking-deficient beachfront area.

This Overnight Parking District proposal is unnecessary.  I've heard it has to do with homeless in living in cars and recreational vehicles on a few residential streets.  Why put all of Venice into a patchwork quilt of districts without any consultation with the affected neighborhoods?  The Districts make no sense, and the accompanying tax that provides no benefit to the community makes no sense.    

If the homeless on specific streets are an issue, that should be dealt with humanely.  But why sweep the entire Venice Coastal Zone into a hodge-podge set of parking districts if only a few streets are impacted and when it is the daytime visitors who do the impacting?  They are gone at night.  I have to scramble for parking all the rest of the time, but I make do.  The City now proposes to limit where I can park at night and also make me pay for it. That’s bad policy on the face of it.

Just because a version of permit parking limited to a few overnight hours can be construed by your staff to be permissible under the Coastal Act doesn’t mean it won’t have an impact on coastal access or that it is even workable in the real world. In other words, just because you CAN approve this ill-conceived proposal doesn’t mean you SHOULD. Please say “no” to permit parking in Venice and tell the City of Los Angeles to go back to the drawing board.

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Very truly yours,

Khatchik Achadjian & California Coastal Commission Staff

Board of Supervisors 200 Oceangate, 10^th Floor
1055 Monterey Street, Room D-430 Long Beach, California 90802
San Luis Obispo, CA 93408 45 Fremont St., Suite 2000
(805) 781-4337 San Francisco, CA 94105

Dear Commissioner Achadjian and Coastal Commissioner Staff,

The City of Los Angeles proposal for Overnight Parking Districts will restrict where I can park at night and charge me for it, while restricting coastal access and failing to provide meaningful mitigation (replacement parking) in the Venice beachfront neighborhoods where it is needed the most.

Venice has lots of parking problems, but the problems are during the day, on weekends and especially in the summer. Permit parking during those hours and time periods without at least one-for-one replacement parking clearly would violate the Coastal Act. Overnight is the only time there is some semblance of workable parking based on a tenuous balance of resident creativity and the City’s efforts over the last two decades to create more parking opportunities in an historically parking-deficient beachfront area.

This Overnight Parking District proposal is unnecessary.  I've heard it has to do with homeless in living in cars and recreational vehicles on a few residential streets.  Why put all of Venice into a patchwork quilt of districts without any consultation with the affected neighborhoods?  The Districts make no sense, and the accompanying tax that provides no benefit to the community makes no sense.    

If the homeless on specific streets are an issue, that should be dealt with humanely.  But why sweep the entire Venice Coastal Zone into a hodge-podge set of parking districts if only a few streets are impacted and when it is the daytime visitors who do the impacting?  They are gone at night.  I have to scramble for parking all the rest of the time, but I make do.  The City now proposes to limit where I can park at night and also make me pay for it. That’s bad policy on the face of it.

Just because a version of permit parking limited to a few overnight hours can be construed by your staff to be permissible under the Coastal Act doesn’t mean it won’t have an impact on coastal access or that it is even workable in the real world. In other words, just because you CAN approve this ill-conceived proposal doesn’t mean you SHOULD. Please say “no” to permit parking in Venice and tell the City of Los Angeles to go back to the drawing board.

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Very truly yours,

Larry Clark, Mayor & California Coastal Commission Staff

City of Rancho Palos Verdes City Hall 200 Oceangate, 10^th Floor
30940 Hawthorne Blvd. Long Beach, California 90802
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275 45 Fremont St., Suite 2000
(310) 544-5207 San Francisco, CA 94105

Dear Commissioner Clark and Coastal Commission Staff,

The City of Los Angeles proposal for Overnight Parking Districts will restrict where I can park at night and charge me for it, while restricting coastal access and failing to provide meaningful mitigation (replacement parking) in the Venice beachfront neighborhoods where it is needed the most.

Venice has lots of parking problems, but the problems are during the day, on weekends and especially in the summer. Permit parking during those hours and time periods without at least one-for-one replacement parking clearly would violate the Coastal Act. Overnight is the only time there is some semblance of workable parking based on a tenuous balance of resident creativity and the City’s efforts over the last two decades to create more parking opportunities in an historically parking-deficient beachfront area.

This Overnight Parking District proposal is unnecessary.  I've heard it has to do with homeless in living in cars and recreational vehicles on a few residential streets.  Why put all of Venice into a patchwork quilt of districts without any consultation with the affected neighborhoods?  The Districts make no sense, and the accompanying tax that provides no benefit to the community makes no sense.    

If the homeless on specific streets are an issue, that should be dealt with humanely.  But why sweep the entire Venice Coastal Zone into a hodge-podge set of parking districts if only a few streets are impacted and when it is the daytime visitors who do the impacting?  They are gone at night.  I have to scramble for parking all the rest of the time, but I make do.  The City now proposes to limit where I can park at night and also make me pay for it. That’s bad policy on the face of it.

Just because a version of permit parking limited to a few overnight hours can be construed by your staff to be permissible under the Coastal Act doesn’t mean it won’t have an impact on coastal access or that it is even workable in the real world. In other words, just because you CAN approve this ill-conceived proposal doesn’t mean you SHOULD. Please say “no” to permit parking in Venice and tell the City of Los Angeles to go back to the drawing board.

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Very truly yours,

Ben Hueso & California Coastal Commission Staff

City Administration Building 200 Oceangate, 10^th Floor
202 C Street 10-A Long Beach, California 90802
San Diego, CA 92101 45 Fremont St., Suite 2000
(619) 236-6688 San Francisco, CA 94105

benhueso@sandiego.gov

Dear Commissioner Hueso and Coastal Commission Staff

The City of Los Angeles proposal for Overnight Parking Districts will restrict where I can park at night and charge me for it, while restricting coastal access and failing to provide meaningful mitigation (replacement parking) in the Venice beachfront neighborhoods where it is needed the most.

Venice has lots of parking problems, but the problems are during the day, on weekends and especially in the summer. Permit parking during those hours and time periods without at least one-for-one replacement parking clearly would violate the Coastal Act. Overnight is the only time there is some semblance of workable parking based on a tenuous balance of resident creativity and the City’s efforts over the last two decades to create more parking opportunities in an historically parking-deficient beachfront area.

This Overnight Parking District proposal is unnecessary.  I've heard it has to do with homeless in living in cars and recreational vehicles on a few residential streets.  Why put all of Venice into a patchwork quilt of districts without any consultation with the affected neighborhoods?  The Districts make no sense, and the accompanying tax that provides no benefit to the community makes no sense.    

If the homeless on specific streets are an issue, that should be dealt with humanely.  But why sweep the entire Venice Coastal Zone into a hodge-podge set of parking districts if only a few streets are impacted and when it is the daytime visitors who do the impacting?  They are gone at night.  I have to scramble for parking all the rest of the time, but I make do.  The City now proposes to limit where I can park at night and also make me pay for it. That’s bad policy on the face of it.

Just because a version of permit parking limited to a few overnight hours can be construed by your staff to be permissible under the Coastal Act doesn’t mean it won’t have an impact on coastal access or that it is even workable in the real world. In other words, just because you CAN approve this ill-conceived proposal doesn’t mean you SHOULD. Please say “no” to permit parking in Venice and tell the City of Los Angeles to go back to the drawing board.

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Very truly yours,

Dr. William Burke, Vice Chair & California Coastal Commission Staff

11110 West Ohio Ave. 200 Oceangate, 10^th Floor
Suite 100 Long Beach, California 90802
Los Angeles, CA 90025 45 Fremont St., Suite 2000
San Francisco, CA 94105

Dear Commissioner Burke and Coastal Commission Staff,

The City of Los Angeles proposal for Overnight Parking Districts will restrict where I can park at night and charge me for it, while restricting coastal access and failing to provide meaningful mitigation (replacement parking) in the Venice beachfront neighborhoods where it is needed the most.

Venice has lots of parking problems, but the problems are during the day, on weekends and especially in the summer. Permit parking during those hours and time periods without at least one-for-one replacement parking clearly would violate the Coastal Act. Overnight is the only time there is some semblance of workable parking based on a tenuous balance of resident creativity and the City’s efforts over the last two decades to create more parking opportunities in an historically parking-deficient beachfront area.

This Overnight Parking District proposal is unnecessary.  I've heard it has to do with homeless in living in cars and recreational vehicles on a few residential streets.  Why put all of Venice into a patchwork quilt of districts without any consultation with the affected neighborhoods?  The Districts make no sense, and the accompanying tax that provides no benefit to the community makes no sense.    

If the homeless on specific streets are an issue, that should be dealt with humanely.  But why sweep the entire Venice Coastal Zone into a hodge-podge set of parking districts if only a few streets are impacted and when it is the daytime visitors who do the impacting?  They are gone at night.  I have to scramble for parking all the rest of the time, but I make do.  The City now proposes to limit where I can park at night and also make me pay for it. That’s bad policy on the face of it.

Just because a version of permit parking limited to a few overnight hours can be construed by your staff to be permissible under the Coastal Act doesn’t mean it won’t have an impact on coastal access or that it is even workable in the real world. In other words, just because you CAN approve this ill-conceived proposal doesn’t mean you SHOULD. Please say “no” to permit parking in Venice and tell the City of Los Angeles to go back to the drawing board.

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Very truly yours,