Seeman Drive is known for its rural feel: there are no sidewalks, no streetlights and the street narrows as you travel south [sic] toward its dead end.Those apartments were built a long time ago. In recent years, city staff and council have worked to further reduce parking requirements for new developments.
But over the past few years, they said, cars have jammed both sides of the narrow street during the night hours, presumably from a nearby large apartment complex that banned guest parking.
Residents said that the management of the Elan Quail Pointe Apartments has been absent or largely dismissive of the neighbors’ concerns. Meanwhile, they said the street crowding is a fire hazard, as it narrows the driving lane to the point where fire engines and ambulances cannot pass through.
Thursday, January 11, 2018
Seeman Drive shows what happens when apartment complexes have inadequate parking
Coast News:
Measure T was rejected in large part by voters who recognized that T's reduced onsite parking requirements for high density would have resulted in Seeman Drives citywide.
ReplyDeleteStaff, cultivated by developers, pushed a too-gullible and trusting council to present us with a plan that would have benefited developers at resident expense. Has the city learned its lesson? We'll see come November.
No. We already know. Every bar and every development gets approved buy this staff and City Council. unfortunately things have gotten worse not better.
ReplyDeleteIn reality, the apartment-owners have illegally increased the amount of people who can inhabit a 2 bedroom apartment; which went from one number; Man, Wife, Baby in 1986 when the City incorporated, where 3 persons, were allowed a single parking place; whereby today, 31 years later, 6 people are allowed/crammed into a 2 bedroom apartment, which comes with 2 to 3 parking spaces to accommodate 6 working class inhabitants: meaning, out of 6 unmarried room mates; only 2 get to park in the apartment complex causing the other 4 have to park on the street. Code enforcement and the Traffic Committee were given a perfect opportunity to face the truth concerning the complex and force the owners of the complex to live by the ORIGINAL parking ratio and to return to it, but when faced with a civil trial trying to return the amount of inhabitants and therefore, the amount of unwed room mates parking on the street; Code Enforcement asked the City Manager and Mayor for guidance and were informed that the Council would rather create a new on-street parking sticker over the reality of a long drawn-out court fight. As too Council's habit of submitting housing unit plans and designs that had a ridiculously low amount of parking for low income families because everybody knows poor people cause more harm to the environment than rich people do: hence, Tasha's request of her peers on the Planning Commission to reduce the parking ratio by 25% if it appears that the low income folk living in the NEW and Future condos would be violating local, regional, state and federal laws; allowing Tasha and the Planning Commission to reduce parking in potential new homes while lacking the funding to pay for public transport.
ReplyDeleteThe lesson should be forcing the apartment owners to honor the original legal parking agreement; period.
I have noticed more cars parking on Seemen just driving by at night. Vehicles from Seacrest Apt's (NE corner on Encinitas Bl. and Rosebay Dr.) are packed in like sardines 3-4 blocks back into Rosebay Dr. at night, frequently illegally parking in crosswalks. It's obvious the units are overcrowded. Have also noticed many contractors using this street as a parking lot after hours because it's so close to the freeway. They leave their bigs trucks/vans here and drive off with their spouse in a compact. Multiple abandoned/ inoperable/ unregistered vehicles left behind that require towing. What's strange is how property values have increased as quality of life here has decreased.
ReplyDeleteNothing strange about property values going up in Encinitas no matter where they're located. The question is: have they increased as much as they might otherwise have, had the street not been degraded by the overcrowding and unsavory activities described last night?
DeleteNot enough parking and too many poor folks has turned parts of our town into s**tholes. Trumpie wants to deport all of the non-whites and bring in some rich Norwegians. Did Hitler have a good idea?
DeleteSeeman Drive's dead end is north not south. South is its T intersection with Encinitas Blvd.
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