CSULB Parking UPDATE and Chronic Tacos evicted

CSULB will offer shuttles to off-site parking for 4 days as school starts

CSULB will begin its Fall Semester on August 22 and will offer off-site parking for only four days of the first week. (Click on OVERFLOW)

The off-site parking will be offered at the Greek Orthodox Church lot at Colorado and PCH. The site is not accessible from PCH, cars using the lot must travel down Bellflower and turn left on Colorado. Any cars using the lot must display a valid CSULB Parking Permit.

Annual parking permits for CSULB are $342 a year or $123 each for the Fall and Spring Semesters.  ( Click on PERMIT )

Students and staff are provided free Long Beach Transit Bus Passes under the U-Pass Program. The free passes are provided in hopes of promoting students not driving to campus.  This plan with the steep cost of parking has pushed student parking onto local residential streets as the CSULB parking situation has worsened.  

(Click on U- PASS)

With the steep price of parking, many students who drive to CSULB have learned to park in surrounding residential and commercial areas that do not require city issued parking permits. The students then use the free bus passes to take a short ride to CSULB-leaving their cars for hours.  This circumvents the CSULB initiative for a "green" policy using the bus and has shifted the CSULB student parking to the surrounding residential neighborhoods.

Last year the CSULB Parking Committee announced a plan to promote more "green" sustainability by announcing a plan for "demand pricing".  This would raise parking rates on campus according to the "demand" and "supply" of parking spaces.  Neighborhood leaders immediately took notice and the plan has not moved forward. ( Click on PARKING PLAN)

There are problems with the CSULB  "green" solutions. The neighborhoods and retail surrounding CSULB offer "free" parking.  That free parking coupled with the free bus rides has just shifted the CSULB parking problems to the residential neighborhoods and business parking lots. 

While like the LB Airport, CSULB is not in the 4th District, it too impacts the 4th District negatively.  Fourth District  Councilman Daryl Supernaw has attended the CSULB Parking Committee meetings to try and address the issues facing those impacted by the CSULB parking problems. 

Earlier this year Councilman Supernaw had a guest speaker from CSULB at his Los Altos  monthly meeting. Residents brought up the continued parking problems related to CSULB.  At that time they were told that CSULB is working on satellite parking to alleviate the parking situation.  This year's four day Greek Orthodox Church parking appears to be a step in that direction.

Recently, Councilman Supernaw's office arranged to have CSULB representatives at the EASBA meeting to discuss this semesters new CSULB Shuttle route down Anaheim Street. 

For more information on the CSULB Anaheim St Area route click on Supernaw's newsletter here: SUPERNAW  .

Los Altos Chronic Taco being evicted

It began in early July with the Los Altos Chronic Taco workers being  let go and a note on the door that the space would was temporarily closed for renovations.

That note soon disappeared as the space was cleared out of all the fixtures.  

Then a court document dated July 27th was taped to the front door stating that the franchise owners have been given notice of being sued by the shopping center for eviction.

Two other Chronic Tacos owned by a different franchisee are in Long Beach.

For background information click on CHRONIC TACO