San Clemente's Coastal Advisory Committee will ask the City Council to consider prohibiting parking during street-sweeping hours on publicly maintained streets citywide – and to ticket violators.
The goal isn't revenue, said committee Chairman Bill Hart, but to stop residents' cars from blocking the path of the sweeper so it can suck up debris from curbs. Otherwise, the debris washes into storm drains, onto the beaches and into the ocean.
Select neighborhoods are posted "No parking" during designated sweeper hours each month. Officials say the risk of a $50 ticket has improved curb access for the sweeper. A citywide expansion would apply ticketing to all publicly maintained streets.
Dave Dendel, the city's maintenance-services manager, said 442 people have signed up for free phone and e-mail reminders the day before sweeping day. The service is available to residents citywide. Call 949-361-8200 or visit san-clemente.org.
On Thursday, the advisory committee looked at a survey done last summer, counting cars on sweeper routes. The most parked cars were on unposted streets west of El Camino Real between Trafalgar Lane and West Lobos Marinos, officials said. On one run, the sweeper had to go around 29 cars along West Cordoba, 25 on Avenida Barcelona and 23 on Trafalgar Lane, according to the survey.
"It's always been troubling to me that large areas of the city aren't posted," Hart said. Colleague Bob Maltinsky said he once lived in a city that enforced sweeper hours citywide, and he can't see why San Clemente doesn't.
Parking during street-sweeping hours has been an issue recently in other Orange County cities. Dana Point expanded its restrictions and ticketing to more areas of town. A Huntington Beach councilman, outraged at repeatedly receiving street-sweeping parking tickets, called for changes in the ticketing process. High school students' cars in Anaheim were towed from a shopping center where they had parked to avoid sweeping on streets near the school.
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