The city’s parking reconfiguration project on Bonita Avenue got underway this week. The diagonal striping will create 17 new parking spaces, which will be split between Permit A (PUSD employee) and time-limited (2 hour) for general use.
What’s new:
- The Havens Elementary side of the street will change from parallel parking to diagonal parking and the former school drop-off zone will go away
- Two new ADA parking spaces will be added to the mix
- This block of Bonita behind Havens will convert to one-way traffic, going toward Oakland Avenue
The work is expected to take 3-4 weeks, the city says. Demolition where the new ADA ramp will go began on Monday. Next week workers will be grading the ADA spaces and pouring new ramps, then the final step will be striping and signage.
Previous phases of this project have included the addition of a new drop-off zone on Highland Avenue across the street from Havens Elementary in January and the addition of new time-limited parking spaces on Bonita and Magnolia in April.
The plan was approved by City Council last summer after a series of discussions spanning several Council meetings and a community survey that received over 500 responses.