Parking Permits & Visitors Passes in Los Angeles, & Plastic Straws there is a great deal of irony here. Please stay with me, this is just observations by a Beverly Hills Realtor, not a political rant!
Thanks to the vigilant guardians of the landfills, California decided to outlaw Plastic Straws and this momentum reached national levels. Politicians jumped on it and spent countless hours debating the evil side effects of plastic straws. Thanks to their proactive and vigilant Legislative actions, we now have paper straws, stainless steel as well as glass straws in Restaurants. Just on a side note, I would hate to see the bacteria count, but that is another story.
Yes, the landfill’s guardians will now notice, that they will be filled with plastic cup covers that have attached plastic straws to them, but that is another subject for a different post as well.
Back to my original point, Diane and I are the proud owners of two cars, that fall into the 183rd District in Los Angeles for Parking Restriction purposes. We did some grass roots campaigning to get this achieved. Most of our neighbors were thrilled with this accomplishment, until it hit home that it will cost them money to get the permits. Depending how much or how little space they have in their driveways and garages would determine how many Visitors Passes they would also need to pay for. We are not big on entertaining, hence we opted to get one Visitors Pass and two Resident Passes. Clearly, we felt that could accommodate at least five cars if we were to entertain more than the usual inviting one or two couples over for dinner.
Anyway, I stood in line for the first time to get the permits because that is “what the rules required”, the good news was, that I was assured that the renewals would be done via the US Postal Service. Once we received the permits, we noticed that they were for a relatively short period of time. We figured once we are on the regular cycle, we will be getting them annually. Well you know what they say when you presume...
When the first renewal came in the mail, we joyfully paid it. Well the great news is, that we just received the extension for our permits. I was shocked to find out, instead of a simple sticker that could have been added to the existing Permit, we received a new one and again it is only for a limited time period.
(I placed the sticker to cover the street and the block)
Well see for yourself. Hence, I can see every three months getting these new Permits and discarding the expired ones. Now I am not an expert, but how many plastic straws could have been made from these permits? Also keep in mind how many of our neighbors have more car and more visitors passes, then we do and the numbers increase astronomically.
Seriously, now we will be filling the land fills with City of Los Angeles Parking Permits, because the Politicians could not come up with the same idea as we have on cars: to put a simple annual renewal sticker on the permit. I wonder what were these same politicians thinking when they passed this regulation? With that said their right hand was eliminating Plastic Straws from the Land Fills, but their left had was helping filling the Land Fills with Plastic Parking Permits.
This of course is coming from our Los Angeles Mayor’s Office, who is busy dreaming about running for President of the United States, instead of focusing on the local issues that affect his constituents.
Now mind you, I am just a Beverly Hills Realtor who is scratching his head at the lack of thought process, the frivolous waste of materials, and the lack of common sense exercised by the local politicians. If I handled a Real Estate transaction like they handle our taxes and our government, I would be out of clients and not be successful as a local Realtor.
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