Completion of Atwater’s long awaited “Parking Credit Ordinance” has been delayed yet again at the City Attorney’s Office until January 2012… possibly longer. Two small business owners, Andy Hasroun and Tricia Labelle, need this ordinance to open their new businesses on Glendale Blvd.
We need your help today, please email or write to City Attorney Carmen Trutanich. Tell him we need this ordinance finished today!
For more information about Andy and Tricia please read:
New Atwater gastropub gets tangled in city red tape [Eastside LA]
Atwater Village businesses at a standstill without a parking credit program [Atwater Village Now]
Click here to email City Attorney Trutanich
Sample Text:
The Honorable Carmen Trutanich Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office 200 North Main Street, 8th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90012RE: ATWATER VILLAGE PARKING ORDINANCE
Dear City Attorney Trutanich,
Currently your office has been tasked with finalizing the Atwater Village Parking Credit Ordinance (Council File: 09-0035). The purpose of said ordinance is to create a community specific “parking credit” system for Glendale Blvd to ease parking requirements for new or change-of-use businesses. This is done identifying underused public parking spaces and allowing these businesses to purchase “parking credits” in lieu of building more spaces onsite.
Our community considers this ordinance crucial to revitalize our “main street” business district, Glendale Blvd. Since 2008 this small business corridor has suffered an economic downturn, which has caused business turnover and storefront vacancies. In addition, this ordinance is essential for the opening of two new businesses that would greatly help revitalize this business corridor. These businesses are currently waiting for the passage of this ordinance to satisfy their change-of-use parking requirements.
As our elected representative we urge to take all necessary action to expedite the completion of this ordinance.
Sincerely,
