Politics & Government

'For Sale' Car Parking Ban Would Affect Foothill, Ocean View

An ordinance will likely make it illegal to park vehicles for sale on certain streets in Montrose and La Crescenta.

Parking of cars and trucks for sale on certain La Crescenta and Montrose streets will likely be banned in a couple of months.

The L.A. County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously in favor of the ordinance Tuesday. Barring any glitches of the second reading of the ordinance next Tuesday, the ban would go into effect 90 days from now.

The ban targets “chronic offenders, people who make a livelihood out of this,” said Edel Vizcarra, Supervisor Michael Antonovich’s Planning Deputy. “They don’t have a used car lot, so they use the street.”

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The ban is not meant to target individual car owners who are trying to sell their vehicles, said Vizcarra. Rather, it’s for repeat offenders.

The ordinance would make it illegal to park “for sale” vehicles on the following streets:

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  • Foothill Boulevard between Pennsylvania Avenue and the city of La Cañada Flintridge
  • The west side of La Crescenta Avenue between Foothill Boulevard and the city of Glendale
  • The east side of La Crescenta Avenue between Foothill and Mayfield Avenue.
  • The north side of Montrose Avenue between Raymond Avenue and Rosemont Avenue.
  • Both sides of Montrose Avenue between Rosemont Avenue and the city of Glendale.
  • Ocean View Boulevard between the cities of La Cañada Flintridge and Glendale.
  • East side of Pennsylvania Avenue between Foothill and the city of Glendale.

If the ban is put into effect, parking officers would be authorized to impound any vehicles on those streets that are there solely for the purpose of advertising, or that have received a impoundment warning within the last 30 days.

“It’s a quality of life issue for our residents,” said Tony Bell, a spokesperson for Antonovich.

Supervisor Gloria Molina, who introduced the ordinance, said excessive parking of “for sale” vehicles creates impromptu parking lots, and that it encourages jaywalking, double parking, blocks traffic, limits parking in nearby lots, encourages illegal vendors to congregate and encourages trash dumping and drug and alcohol use.

“A lot of these vendors don’t have licenses, … they take business away from licensed car dealers,” said Vizcarra.

A county ordinance banning “for sale” vehicles from parking on streets currently exists but is not enforced because similar laws in other cities have not held up in court. The Board of Supervisors believes their ordinance will hold up because it targets specific streets.


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