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 Bellflower and turn left on Colorado
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
Recently, Councilman Supernaw's office arranged to have
CSULB representatives at the EASBA meeting to discuss this semesters new CSULB
Shuttle route down
For more information on the CSULB Anaheim St Area route click on Supernaw's newsletter here:
SUPERNAW .
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