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# Protect the people’s parking
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/protect-the-peoples-parking-editor/
- Published: 2004-11-19T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T05:37:31.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Pico, #archive-import

*By Susan Archibald Santa Monica*

I hope the members of the Santa Monica City Council respect the wishes of the residents of Santa Monica and protect our hard-won preferential parking permits (SMDP, Nov. 11, page 1). Any responsible governing body should take parking into account before issuing zoning and business permits. If a contractor wants to build an apartment building, he is not allowed to do so until he solves parking problems for the potential residents — businesses should be held to the same standards. Businesses should be prepared to provide parking for their employees and their customers — either via public parking lots in the vicinity or by adding parking spaces to their properties.

It took the residents of Ninth Street, between Michigan and Pico, four years to finally acquire the right to pay to park in front of their own homes. Please do not take that right away from us by selling our parking places out from under us. This would place us back to where we were before our struggle began.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 19, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/111904.pdf?ref=smdp.com)