What happened to the quest for preferential parking in Pacific Palisades? The issue seems to have slipped quietly out of the public eye, despite the fact that 100-plus residents attended a public hearing on the issue in September 2004. Many of these residents had applied for preferential parking because their on-street parking had diminished as a result of spillover from the Palisades business district. Others worried about the spillover effect of the proposed six-block district onto their streets. The last we learned, in July, was that the controversial proposal to implement Preferential Parking District 50 was stalled in process. There is still “no progress to report,” Alan Willis, principal transportation engineer with LADOT, told the Palisadian-Post Monday. But his committee has been working on a related project that could affect PPD 50. “What we ended up doing is that we had an assignment to completely rewrite the City Council rules on preferential parking,” Willis said. “That was given priority over everything else.” Willis could not speak about how the proposed changes might affect the proposed parking district in the Palisades but said “When we were crafting the changes, we took a look at some of the special proposed districts like PPD 50.” However, the DOT has not yet written its report recommending either approval or denial of the request to establish PPD 50. The earliest this report will be on the City Council’s transportation committee agenda would be January, Willis said. At that point, “the transportation committee will hold a public hearing, take testimony from the public on the recommendations of the report and then make their own recommendation for full [City] Council action on the DOT report.”
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