“I’ve been the manager of this Kiwi Republic for four years, and I know many of my customers are going to Kiwi Republics in other cities because they don’t enforce their parking rules there,” said Sandra Compote. “They need to stop picking on the businesses in town with all of these ridiculous rules.”
Many residents applauded the higher level of parking enforcement taken by the city.
“Yeah, like, I live in an apartment building by the beach and there’s like never any parking,” said Daniel Stoner. “And I think $13 million is a small price to pay for having a place to put my cherished car.”
Other residents said the new parking enforcement efforts weren’t important.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 1, 2002. Read the original PDF.