Bird Rock Community Council Meeting Notes

The meeting was held last night at Bird Rock Elementary auditorium. The meeting started slightly late at 6:45pm and ran slightly past 8:00pm. At the beginning of the meeting Chuck Patton the president of BRCC gave an opening statement and then turned over the presentation to a council member who began discussing some of the issues with regards to the construction and some of the solutions that have been implemented. She allowed for a period of questions and answers, this ended up taking a bit longer than it looked like it was going to take originally. Most of the concerns seemed to be centered around the lack, or complete absence of notification before the contractor's started tearing up the sidewalks and blocking access to businesses. There were also some concerns about the construction equipment and staging areas in relation to the moratorium for the upcoming holiday shopping season. At one point a question was raised by a merchant that was slightly off topic and he was quickly quashed in order to save time for the next presentation.

The main presentation had to deal with the proposed pilot parking program for the village of La Jolla and surrounding residential streets. While most of the discussion and PowerPoint presentation was centered around the Village of La Jolla and not necessarily Bird Rock, the inevitable question was coming. Basically at the conclusion of the presentation the attendees were asked to consider whether a similar program should be implemented in Bird Rock to help rectify the parking inadequacies. The question and answer period at the end of meeting seemed to show that most were not in support of a similar program, there weren't many merchants in attendance but the residents seemed very concerned over several sticking points regarding the pilot program. The main sticking point was the residential area parking zone which would restrict access to only a certain number of vehicles allowed per residence. The main concerns would be that it would punish residents just as much as would punish employees or customers parking in residential areas. I will post some links to the appropriate pdf files when I gain access to them.