Tustin Set To Vote On Parking Ban Tuesday Night
Posted by: Mark Bucher | 10/06/2008 10:46 PM
The Tustin city council is scheduled to vote on a parking ban Tuesday evening. The Council was planning to ban all parking on any street in Tustin from 2 A.M. to 6 P.M., but scaled it back to a neighborhood by neighborhood ban, with parking prohibited entirely just on certain main streets. They have also thrown in a ban on parking recreational vehicles, such as motor homes and boats, on your own property.
The most irritating part of this ban, apart from the fact that they are doing it, is the willingness of Mayor Amante and Councilman Doug Davert to mislead the voters into thinking they are not trying to ban parking. They repeatedly told more than 300 concerned citizens at a September 15 "parking workshop" that there never was any intention to ban parking, and showed distain for anyone who dared call the parking ban a ban. They went so far as to publically chastise Ray Grangoff, who works for the apartment association, calling literature passed out as "disingenuous tripe" and litter. I watched their exchange. Ray was respectful and professional. Amante and Davert were rude and arrogant. You can watch the video here. Amante tells the audience there never was to be a ban at 3:57. Amante and Davert verbally attack Ray Grangoff for calling it a ban at 1:11:31.
So is it Grangoff, or Amante and Davert, who are espousing "disingenuous tripe?"
On April 15, 2008, Amante and Davert both voted in favor of directing staff to draft an ordinance that is referred to as a "nighttime parking ban." You can read the document here page 10, item 21.e. During the discussion on this agenda item at about 1:15:51, Tustin city staff referred to the proposal as a "nighttime ban" and at 1:18:14 on this same video, during the actual vote Amante says "The first is the ordinance to prohibit public parking from 2 to 6 and the fifth is to prohibit the exceptions to nighttime parking BAN and any spillover from arterials.
It is bad enough that Amante, Davert and the rest of the Republicans on the Tustin City Council, except Jim Palmer, want to ban parking on the public streets. But is it too much to ask for them to at least be honest about it?
The most irritating part of this ban, apart from the fact that they are doing it, is the willingness of Mayor Amante and Councilman Doug Davert to mislead the voters into thinking they are not trying to ban parking. They repeatedly told more than 300 concerned citizens at a September 15 "parking workshop" that there never was any intention to ban parking, and showed distain for anyone who dared call the parking ban a ban. They went so far as to publically chastise Ray Grangoff, who works for the apartment association, calling literature passed out as "disingenuous tripe" and litter. I watched their exchange. Ray was respectful and professional. Amante and Davert were rude and arrogant. You can watch the video here. Amante tells the audience there never was to be a ban at 3:57. Amante and Davert verbally attack Ray Grangoff for calling it a ban at 1:11:31.
So is it Grangoff, or Amante and Davert, who are espousing "disingenuous tripe?"
On April 15, 2008, Amante and Davert both voted in favor of directing staff to draft an ordinance that is referred to as a "nighttime parking ban." You can read the document here page 10, item 21.e. During the discussion on this agenda item at about 1:15:51, Tustin city staff referred to the proposal as a "nighttime ban" and at 1:18:14 on this same video, during the actual vote Amante says "The first is the ordinance to prohibit public parking from 2 to 6 and the fifth is to prohibit the exceptions to nighttime parking BAN and any spillover from arterials.
It is bad enough that Amante, Davert and the rest of the Republicans on the Tustin City Council, except Jim Palmer, want to ban parking on the public streets. But is it too much to ask for them to at least be honest about it?
Anonymous, you have an excellent point. Sometimes people become annoyed by a person or event, to the extent...
Through the Bums out! I won't be voting for anyone who is currently in office it is time for real Change.
Mayor Amante you can count on that I will not be voting for you come November.
Jacob Lee
Tustin Ca
Let's talk about honesty Mark.
Wouldn't it be honest to tell your readers that you asked the City to delay the proposal to remove on-street parking from Irvine Blvd. until you sold your commercial building? And wouldn't it be honest to say that, when they told you that they would not treat you differently than any other business or apartment owner, that you began your jihad against improving traffic flow in the city?
It would also be honest for you to say that you don't actually live in Tustin and that you don't care about the impact residents face every day now that people use their garages for everything but their cars.
Honesty is the best policy, Mark
Honest Abe,
You are making ad hominem attacks that have nothing to do with the parking ban or whether Amante and Davert have every called it a ban themselves, but I will respond anyhow.
I have no intention of selling my office building. No one ever told me they would or would not treat me differently than everyone else who is having their parking taken away. I would not expect to be treated differently than everyone else who is going to lose their parking.
I live in North Tustin, and work in Tustin, and do not understand how that makes me dishonest.
This is representative of why Republicans keep losing.
We have a Republican President. He grows government.
We have a Republican Congress. They grow government.
We have a Republican Governor. He grows government.
Tustin has a Republican City Council. They too, grow government.
Republicans like Davert and Amante are part of the problem. These are the kinds of guys who believe a limitation is not a ban and a fee is not a tax.
This is actually really disappointing. I don't know Amante but have seen him at various GOP functions over the years and always just kind of assumed he was one of the good guys. We need to reform the rubber stamp early endorsement process for incumbents and be more critical of "Republicans" who show up at all of the right events.
Something that bugged me in the video was where Amante was claiming about the CA Supreme Court decision that doesn't let cities define "family." He was calling it legislating from the bench. That wasn't legislating...that is the courts properly restraining out of control local government. City council members need to learn that they are not supreme rulers of their little fiefdoms.