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July 20, 2016
The Honorable Mike Gatto
California State Assembly, District 43
State Capitol Building, Room 5136
Sacramento, CA 95 814
Fax: (916) 319-2143
RE: AB 2586 (Gatto) Parkin
Notice of Opposition (As amended in Assembly Transportation Committee)
Dear Assembly Member Gatto:
The City of San Luis Obispo must respectfully oppose your AB 2586, which would restrict a
local governments' ability to regulate local parking. This bill unnecessarily upends local authority to
regulate parking, an authority that cities have had since at least 1959.
In 2013, the state enacted AB 61 (Gatto, Chapter 71, Statutes of 2013), a bill narrowly
targeted at broken parking meters. Broken meters represent only a fraction of working parking
meters, and many cities have proactively adopted ordinances to not ticket such vehicles on their own.
Furthermore, this bill proposes that cities must consider a specific and usually expensive parking
technology that may not be the most suitable for their community.
Unlike AB 61, AB 2586 goes well beyond the limitations imposed on local government
authority to regulate its own parking needs, such as street sweeping, arrangements with business
districts, the type of technology that can be utilized, and its ability to contract with private parking
enforcement.
No entity is better equipped than local government to regulate its own parking needs. In fact,
many small cities throughout the state do not have any parking meters and many of the larger cities
are moving towards some of the technology called for in this bill. Cities continue to demonstrate
their willingness to adapt to their residents' parking needs and there is no demonstrated need for the
state to insert itself into this core local issue.
For these reasons, the City of San Luis Obispo opposes your AB 2586.
Sincerely,
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Mayor
cc: City Council
Public Works Director
Senator Bill Monning, fax 916-445-8081
Assembly Member, Katcho Achadjian, fax 916-319-2135
David Mullinax, League of California Cities, dmuIfinqx(o-),cqcities.grg
Meg Desmond, League of California Cities, mdesrnond@cacmej.Lorg
Angela Mapp, Principal Consultant, Assembly Local Government Committee,
Fax: (916) 319-3959
William Weber, Principal Consultant, Assembly Republican Caucus, Fax: (916) 319-3902