bythec said
Seems like the most logical place for a parking lot is on Lincoln where Whole Foods is.  There should be a multi-structure lot there and people could walk to the restaurants.

If there is no restricted parking, drivers will always park for free close to the restaurants. And circle the block a few times looking for spaces.

No parking structures without permit parking for residents!

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One of my neighbors came up with an interesting idea. Build a four floor parking structure (three levels and rooftop parking)on Third between Rose and Sunset between Public Storage and what was Digital Domain. Enter on Rose and exit on Sunset – Iinternal access to side properties on ground level – Could have meters and maybe a level of "monthlies" for residents and people who work near. Would ease things on Rose and even augment beach parking on weekends… Also would provide another revenue flow to help pay for the damn thing…..  Even without any construction, Third could be made one way going south and have angled metered parking on both sides of the street between 9AM and 6PM – It just takes a little creativity for short term solutions.  There are long red zones at corners that could be shortened a bit to add a few dozen places…..

Venice Rob said
You have to consider a lot of the driveways and garages in Venice were built in the 1900's and could only accommodate very narrow cars. My driveway and garage is useless, my cars don't fit, so I have to park in my driveway and the street. 

And some never had garages or driveways!

Dear Concerned,

Public Storage is a bountiful cash cow for the PS Corporation exactly BECAUSE the situation we have here with garages used as storage or room conversions….  People in dense urban areas need a place to keep all of the stuff they have collected and have no where to keep it at home – When I moved here from San Francisco to my 1 bedroom apartment, I rented a locker in the newly constructed PS and finally got rid of it (mostly by giving it away or in the trash) a year later because I got tired of paying them $100 a month to store my sh!t that I might use sometime in the future.  Many people, and businesses use this facility well beyond the homeless who use it as a daytime residence. It ain't going away – As for undergrounding parking, it is very expensive because the water table is so high in most of this coastal area – it used to be a swamp – That is why Third streets would work so well, the city already owns it and overground construction is much more reasonable – Also, combining it with affordable housing would be a nightmare between administrating it and working out the Building and Safety regulations for a structure that had two completely different purposes.  For history's sake – When the PS was approved during the Galanter era –  it was written in the conditions that PS would provide a specified number of "transitional housing" units on site to be administrated by ST Jos Center that never were maade because it was too complicated to comply in a simple storage building….  Galanter came back with that they would have to let SJC "clients"  use the ground level garages facinf Third so "store their things" and people moved in and the party began untile PS pulled the plug after streams of urine and worse were flowing from the garages, across the lot and down to Third…  Galanter came back a few years later for her pound of flesh and had PS deed its back parking area (that was required in their original conditions) to Steve Clare for his construction next door as he was trying to sneak in much less parking, claiming that "poor people don't own cars" and the neighbors were not buying that.  So PS never built housing, gave up their back lot (that was supposed to be used for monthly RV and vehicle storage) and Clare got more free land to appease those pesky neighbors….