HEADLINES

The City of West Covina is currently starting the installation of "No Parking on Street Sweeping Days" signs all around the city.  This has been in the works for many months or even years.  

However, most residents are unaware of what is actually happening in the city or even aware of the actions our elected leaders are taking that impact us residents.  In this case, it started back in 2023 (possibly earlier).

This process of restricting parking on street sweeping days came up back in 2023 when the City Council directed city staff to conduct "Community Meetings" to gauge the interest in implementing this new restriction.  The city conducted four community meetings over a couple of months and they were all conducted by TransTech (an engineering contractor to the City of West Covina).  

During these meetings it is widely been reported by those who attended those meetings that the residents overwhelmingly objected to the proposed restrictions on parking.  Residents were shocked that the presenter (TransTech Employee) was simply just telling residents what they thought should happen and how this program should work "based on other cities" and how the program works in those cities (many of which TransTech is also a contractor).  

As residents asked questions and proposed alternate ideas, the majority of residents that we have heard from have said they felt "ignored" or "marginalized" during the meetings.  As it has been told to us, nearly every resident left those meetings feeling as though they were not doing the meetings to get actual resident input, but instead, checking boxes to say they had conducted these meetings.  

For additional information about this entire process, please check out our dedicated page about the process the city took and the results of the decisions the City Council made in implementing this undesirable new restriction on residents.  CLICK HERE