HomeMy WebLinkAbout05 - Establish Marina Park Parking Lots Hours, Approve the Marina Park Daily Parking Permit and Provide for Increased Annual Permit Parking at Marina Park - CorrespondenceReceived After Agenda Printed
November 10, 2015
Item No. 3 & 5
From: Kiff, Dave
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2015 2:34 PM
To: City Clerk's Office
Subject: FW: Marina Park & medical marijuana
For the record.
From: Joseph R. Stack [mailto:joe@stackcpa.com]
Sent: Monday, November 9, 2015 1:21 PM
To: Dept - City Council
Cc: Kiff, Dave
Subject: Marina Park & medical marijuana
Dear Honorable Council Members & Dave Kiff,
First, I would like to commend you all on the modified proposal for parking at Marina Park. This sounds like a common
sense approach that can be tried and always revisited at a later date if necessary...
I would also like to comment on our ordinances regarding medical marijuana. I actually didn't realize that we had such a
restrictive policy in place. That's probably because no one in my household, including myself, has any personal need for
medical marijuana. However, as we all know, medical marijuana is legal in our state (notwithstanding the federal
statutes). Also, I do have a very close family member, who shall remain nameless, that has benefitted from medical
marijuana. This person is 78 years old and I am fairly certain had never even tried marijuana in any form until the last 2
years. She has been able to get off a number of medications that had much worse side effects. She does not live in
Newport Beach, so the prohibition does not affect her. I am all in favor of protecting the community from drug abuse
and I wouldn't advocate opening up to a dispensary on every corner, but I am pretty sure there are residents in our city
that can't get out of the house and have their prescription medications delivered to their home. It seems like there
should be some way for legitimate patients who benefit from medical marijuana to obtain and use it in our city in a
medically responsible way. I doubt that this type of situation is even much of a concern of NBPD, and therefore is
probably happening anyway. However, I don't think those patients should have to rely on discretionary law
enforcement. Please keep those people in mind when you consider our ordinances. I think we can all be compassionate
and protect the community at the same time.
Sincerely,
Joe
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November 10, 2015
.►t _ __ Item No. 5
From: Denys Oberman <dho@obermanassociates.com>
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2015 6:00 PM
To: Dept - City Council; City Clerk's Office
Cc: dho@obermanassociates.com; 'Louise Fundenberg'; Scott Robinson; 'Fred Levine'; Rich
Meyer
Subject: Ciity Council Session- Agenda item 5 re. Marina Park
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE TO COUNCIL MEMBERS AND ENTER INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD:
Mayor, Mayor Pro tem and Council Members:
I am travelling on business and unable to attend the November 101h City Council session. Please accept the
following comments, in supplement to prior testimony.
1.Parking Capacity- We wish to confirm for the record that this project provides only 177 Parking spaces at
the facility. Spaces counted by staff to suggest that there is available capacity on the adjacent and surrounding
streets are now utilized by residents who live in the area and visiting beach -goers. If the programming
including events proposed by city staff and Visit Newport Beach is successful, there will be inadequate parking
for the other Uses in the area ---Residents and visiting Beach goers. Mitigation, particularly in the
spring/summer months and on holidays, will be necessary.
2. Hours of Operation for the Onsite parking lots- We appreciate the staff's recent information concerning the
Facility Hours of Operation( eg. hours that the facility is open for use). The Hours that the Oceanfront and
Bayfront beaches are open are established and posted: 6:00 am to 10:00 pm.
The Parking at Marina Park should not be later than the Beach hours of operation, and in any event,No Later
than the 10:30 pm stated to be the latest Facility Use hours on Friday and Saturday. The only exceptions to
this should be those with Permitted Overnight Use( boat slips, Girl Scounts).
Other than for customary cleanup and closedown, there should be no entry into these lots after facility hours
of operation.
3. The restrooms and grounds of the Park should not be kept open beyond the Facility Hours of Operatio;n---
otherwise, the park will become a magnate for drunk and disorderly, drug activitiy, and vagrancy.
4. We request that the City prior to December opening of the Park provide and publicly distribute a specific
Security and Enforcement plan, so that the community can be reasonably assured that the facility will not
become a late night source of disorderly, noise and other nuisance, and vagrancy.
We request that the Council move to approve Marina Park parking lot hours to evening hours not later than
Hours of Operation of the facility(eg. in any event 10:30 pm) -excepting cleaning and closedown trail and those
with displayed Permits for Overnight.
Thank you.
Denys Oberman
Cc: Residents in Central Balboa Penninsula area
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November 10, 2015
Item No. 5
From: Craig Morissette <craigmorissette@hotmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 10:47 AM
To: Kiff, Dave
Cc: Brown, Leilani; Detweiler, Laura; Webb, Dave (Public Works)
Subject: Agenda Item No. 5, Marina Park Parking, November 10, 2015
From: Craig Morissette [maiIto: craigmorissette@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 4:02 AM
To: 'citycouncil@newportbeachca.gov'
Cc: Tom Billings (Tom.BilIings@camoves. com); 'Scott Robinson'; 'Louise Fundenberg'; 'ross stewart'; 'Brett Bashaw';
'Peter Anderson'; 'Fred Levine'; 'richard meyer'; 'Maureen Cotton'; 'Denys Oberman'; 'Elliott Bonn'
Subject: Agenda Item No. 5, Marina Park Parking, November 10, 2015
November 09, 2015
To: Honorable Mayor And Members Of The City Council
From: Craig Morissette, Newport Beach Home Owner
Subject: Agenda Item No. 5, Marina Park Parking, November 10, 2015
Dear Mr. Mayor and Council Members:
Any approach to Marina Park parking impacts residents, city-wide, that voted for access to a lower bay front park. The challenge in the
summer is to make the park accessible to Newport residents and recreation program participants before it fills each day with visitors
from the greater southland. The challenge in the winter is to encourage enough locals to visit the cafe so it can survive the eight off-
season months. Understandably, this has to be accomplished within coastal commission access constraints.
As a resident of the surrounding neighborhood and long-time supporter of the park --after many conversations with residents, Council
members, and city staff --I offer the following recommendations.
• The Council should not delay in making a decision on this item because of the pending park opening
• Yes to "No Overnight Parking" in all three lots. It is the most effective method to discouraging surrounding neighborhood spill-
over from the streets and ensuring an empty lots are available each summer morning. Ticket the first night and tow the second
night would be a reasonable policy.
• Yes to special overnight passes. It preserves the Girl Scout sleepover tradition and is the right thing to do for slip renters.
• Yes to 35 total annual permit spaces, not 15. A minimum of 30 in the big lot and 5 in the west lot is a reasonable allocation,
hopefully with creative pavement or curb markings so the lot isn't populated with sign posts. Staffs recommendation of 10
spaces in the big lot will largely be consumed by cafe and other park employees. Residents shouldn't have to park on the
boulevard or pay twice to park in the big lot to visit the cafe, attend a meeting in their community center, or launch their sabot
in front of the sailing center. Why 35? I'd rather see all spaces accept annual permits just like the tideland lot at the Balboa
Pier. But, —20% of the 177 total capacity may keep Newport residents coming back in the winter and allocate enough space
for Newport residents, city-wide, on summer mornings. If neighborhood summer spill-over becomes a problem, then reduce
the annual spaces.
• Yes to annual parking on North side of Balboa Blvd and the East side of 18th St. The North side of Balboa was free for years.
Annual permit access is the right thing to do for the immediate neighborhood.
0 Yes to unlimited master permits. A master permit should be a .....master permit!
No to enforcing parking fees in the lots after 6:OOpm. The streets aren't enforced after 6:OOpm, so why discourage local
residents from visiting the cafe or community meetings at night. Visitors from out of town will keep feeding the meter at night --
just as they have been doing for decades. The "No Overnight Parking" policy will discourage surrounding neighborhood spill-
over.
Yes to hours of operation, with the caveat that staff return to the council with a plan to address the following:
• Noise mitigation approach for the surrounding Lido and Peninsula neighborhoods.
• Parking approach to (a) ensure that only park visitors use the lots, and (b) ensure that on summer days the big lot fills
as late in the morning as possible so that Newport residents city-wide have an opportunity to use the passive park
before it fills with southland visitors (i.e., discourage large private events in the summer that reserve much of the big
lot's capacity early in the day)
• Traffic mitigation approach so large groups of cars from private events aren't released onto the boulevard during
peak summer hours (e.g., two hours before or after sunset)
Staff and council members have already expressed creative approaches to addressing the items above.
• No further parking items should be considered by the Council unless a Parking Plan is posted on the City's website. Maybe
it's me, but I knew what to look for a week ago and yesterday, and still couldn't find the parking plan online.
Public Works staff has designed and built a world-class park. Recreation & Senior Services staff have a spectacular park opening
planned and a full schedule of recreation programs to offer. I look forward, as I'm sure you do, to enjoying Marina Park.
Thank you for considering my comments and recommendations,
Craig Morissette c/949-293-4621