Current Seal Beach parking permits have been extended to Oct. 31.
According to a police flyer, the city will start distributing information about renewing parking permits in September. Acccording to Seal Beach Police Sgt. Steve Bowles, police have not yet set a specific date for selling parking stickers. The city will hold four community outreach meetings about parking permits during the next six months. Residential stickers will cost $15 each, with a limited number of stickers. Guest placards will cost $20 each, with a limit of two per household. Stickers should be placed on the left rear bumper or the outside lower left part of the rear window of your car. Guest placards should be suspended from the rearview mirror.
The Seal Beach Police Department has been put in charge of issuing the parking permits. According to Chief Joe Stilinovich, it made no sense to issue parking permits during the summer at the peak of the city’s—and Police Department’s—busiest season. Instead, new parking permits will be valid from Nov. 1 each year to Oct. 31 of the next year. Another change: if you don’t currently have a parking permit, you can get one from the Finance Department at City Hall. But this fall, you will purchase your permits at police headquarters. The electronic parking permit placards that the city expected to roll out last year are history.
Chief Stilinovich told the city council that the vendor of the electronic permits “over-promised and under delivered.” For now, Seal Beach will issue color coded stickers. The parking permit stickers will serve as a back up in case a new parking permit system is not ready in October. Long term, police are working on implementing a parking system that is linked to a car’s license plate. Stilinovich said Seal Beach Police went to Pompano Beach, Florida and Miami to test the NuPark system, which uses license plate recognition to match a plate number to a database. The city has not yet received bids from NuPark.
