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CITY OF SAN LEANDRO STAFF REPORT DATE: June 25, 2012 TO: Chris Zapata, City Manager FROM: Michael Bakaldin, Public Works Director SUBJECT: Residential Parking Restrictions for Street Sweeping SUMMARY Staff was requested at a recent City Council meeting to provide a report on parking restrictions on street sweeping days. The request came after a citizen had reported that their street was not well swept on Memorial Day, due to the number of cars on the street. This report is provided for information purposes only. BACKGROUND Since the late 1990s, the City's residential streets have been swept once per month. Each street segment is assigned a regularly scheduled street sweeping day, such as the third Thursday of the month, so that residents know when their street will be swept. Currently, the street sweeping program only observes two holidays: Christmas Day and New Years Day. The streets that are missed on those two holidays are swept within three working days. In 2001, the City experimented with various ways to reduce parking on fifteen street segments where due to congested parking street sweepers were not able to get to the curb on the designated street sweeping day. Between 2002 and 2003, ten of the fifteen street segments were permanently posted no parking on the first Tuesday of the month on one side of the street and no parking on the regularly scheduled sweeping day on the other side of the street. The number of street segments was limited to ten for three reasons: 1. The capacity of the Police Department to conduct parking enforcement. 2. To ensure that Public Works staff could maintain its existing street sweeping schedule. 3. Inadequate parking alternatives for residents on several of the street segments. The existing parking restrictions have proven effective at providing access to sweep the parking lane and curb. Public Works staff has been able to incorporate the special sweep on the first Tuesday of the month while keeping up with the rest of its monthly sweeping schedule. Police staff has been able to provide regular enforcement, averaging sixty to seventy citations per month.