Old Town Special Bulletin – Parking Program Deadline Extended
The City of Monterey is seeking to eliminate your preferential residential parking zone in
the Old Town Neighborhood unless enough residents register at the link below to
preserve it.
Preferential residential parking grants residents the right to park for 72 hours, and limits
non-residents to 1 hour of parking at a time. Eliminating these parking zones would
mean that tourists and adjacent uses such as business districts and schools would be
able to use our neighborhood as parking with no time restrictions beyond a 72 hour
limit. This would significantly impact parking along our streets.
Preserving the preferential residential parking zone is especially important to the
disabled, the elderly, the mobility-limited and those who may have difficulty walking long
distances to get to and from their vehicles. If the preferential residential parking zone is
eliminated, these neighbors will have a particularly hard time making multiple long trips
to and from their vehicles to get groceries or run errands.
In order to preserve your preferential residential parking permit zone you must
register at the link below by April 20. 51% of all the residents (not just 51% of those responding) on four contiguous blocks must register to essentially vote to retain the residential parking zone. For multi-unit housing, each unit has one vote to respond and be counted in the required percentage.
Registration is free and does not require a permit purchase. Residents can
register at: https://monterey.getapermit.net.
The city will hold a special meeting for Old Town residents at City Council
Chambers on Monday, April 6, at 6 pm. A flyer about the meeting is attached.
If you would like to be updated on this issue as new information comes out, share
information you find out, or to help in spreading the word, please reply to this email.
You can contact the parking office at 831-646-3953 or at askparker@monterey.org.
More information and can be found on their webpage at:
https://haveyoursaymonterey.org/residential-parking-program
If you do not live on a block currently with a sign limiting hours of public parking, this bulletin does not apply to you.
For more information on Old Town Neighborhood Association activity to preserve these
parking zones, please contact Paul Hierling at phierling@hotmail.com