Echo Park Enters Late-Stage Yuppification with Permit Parking

NEIGHBORHOOD POLITICS-The Echo Park stretch of Sunset Boulevard is now thoroughly gentrified and peppered with restaurants, bars, and other desirable destinations—but what it doesn't have is, of course, enough parking to make everyone happy. (Yeah, yeah, kind of an impossible task.) 

Residential streets nearby are feeling the crunch as street parking becomes ever more frustrating to find, so City Councilmember Mitch O'Farrell is now pushing for a new permit parking zone on some of the streets near Sunset and Alvarado, says the Eastsider LA. Locals-only street parking: the last step in total neighborhood yuppification? 

It's kind of miraculous that this didn't happen sooner in Echo Park's transformation into a nightlife hotspot and general cool place to be, considering how windy and narrow so many of the area's streets are. 

It seems that Echo Park has just one other area where permits are required—on a skinny, meandering section of Laveta Terrace that's north of Sunset. The rules there create a one-hour parking limit during the day (8 am to 6 pm) and ban parking overnight (6 pm to 8 am) for non-permit holders. (Read the rest.)  

-cw

 

 

CityWatch

Vol 13 Issue 26

Pub: Mar 27, 2015

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