Parking woes at new Los Angeles school

Sept. 20, 2012
Parents cause traffic jams when they leave their cars to walk children to and from classes

From The Los Angeles Daily News: The new $56 million Porter Ranch Community School in Los Angeles is winning raves for its innovative curriculum and architecture, but it's also raising safety concerns because of a parking crunch that's emerged since the K-8 school opened a month ago. A shortage of parking spaces on campus and a ban on parking along nearby busy thoroughfares has sparked a flurry of meetings. planners who designed the campus back in 2008 didn't anticipate that 150 of the school's first 700 students would be kindergartners whose parents need a place to park while they walk their youngsters into class and pick them up after school.

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