GOOD NEIGHBOR GETTY; CENTER WILL PICK UP TRAFFIC TAB.Byline: Deborah Deborah (dĕb`ōrə), in the Bible, prophetess and judge of Israel, the only woman to hold that office. Under her guidance Barak conquered Sisera and delivered Israel from the oppression of the Canaanite King Jabin. Sullivan Daily News Staff Writer After complaints from Getty Center Getty Center, art museum complex in Brentwood, Calif. operated by the J. Paul Getty Trust. It consists of six buildings on 124 acres (50 hectares) located on a spectacular promontory overlooking Los Angeles. neighbors whose streets are overrun 1. overrun - A frequent consequence of data arriving faster than it can be consumed, especially in serial line communications. For example, at 9600 baud there is almost exactly one character per millisecond, so if a silo can hold only two characters and the machine takes by museum visitors, the City Council on Tuesday approved an agreement with the Getty Center to reimburse re·im·burse tr.v. re·im·bursed, re·im·burs·ing, re·im·burs·es 1. To repay (money spent); refund. 2. To pay back or compensate (another party) for money spent or losses incurred. the city for costs of traffic and parking control on weekends and holiday seasons. ``The neighborhood residents in the area have (said) that there's been some parking impacts in their community and they want that alleviated al·le·vi·ate tr.v. al·le·vi·at·ed, al·le·vi·at·ing, al·le·vi·ates To make (pain, for example) more bearable: a drug that alleviates cold symptoms. See Synonyms at relieve. ,'' said city transportation engineer Dave Roseman. Under the agreement, the city Department of Transportation will assign two parking officers to direct traffic and enforce parking time limits near the museum during peak hours peak hours npl, peak period n → horas fpl punta peak hours peak npl → heures fpl d'affluence or de pointe , and the Getty Center will reimburse the department's overtime account for those costs, up to $50,000 a year. The council's approval of the agreement was required to enable the department to deposit the payments in its overtime account. The agreement also will allow the Getty Center to reimburse the department for the costs of installing signs and painting new lane stripes, if necessary, to ease the flow of traffic. ``If they were to request additional signage, we could do that in a day or two. So it allows us to be extremely flexible and responsive to the community, while still recovering our cost,'' Roseman said. The center has not yet added new signs or street lanes, but has been relying on city parking officers since March 30 - during the spring break period between March 30 and April 11, and on weekends, Roseman said. And it will likely rely heavily on the officers during the summer tourism season. ``During the peak visitor period, what the Getty Center has requested of us is to provide traffic direction so that people get in and out without disrupting traffic in the area,'' Roseman said. ``On weekends, they ask that we do traffic enforcement so that no one is violating the time-limited parking. These are services that are beneficial, but are somewhat costly to us and we don't want to use regular public dollars for those.'' The city estimates it will cost the Getty Center $50,000 to cover overtime costs of assigning as·sign tr.v. as·signed, as·sign·ing, as·signs 1. To set apart for a particular purpose; designate: assigned a day for the inspection. 2. two officers to the area for 120 days a year. Councilwoman Cindy Miscikowski Cindy Miscikowski represented the 11th District on the Los Angeles City Council for two full terms from 1997 through 2005. Previously, she was an aide to Councilman Marvin Braude and the Executive Director of the Skitball Cultural Center in its beginning stages. , who represents the area, said the parking officers and traffic improvements will streamline traffic backups. ``Generally it was to allow easier delineation of holding pockets to allow traffic to flow through and around it without traffic backing up in either direction, to minimize the traffic in areas neighboring neigh·bor n. 1. One who lives near or next to another. 2. A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another. 3. A fellow human. 4. Used as a form of familiar address. v. to the Getty Center,'' she said. Roseman said he did not immediately have information on the rate of traffic through the Getty Center area or on how much the museum's presence has increased it. CAPTION(S): 2 photos, map PHOTO (1) Tourists walk from the Holiday Inn in Brentwood along Sepulveda Boulevard to go to the Getty Center on Tuesday afternoon. (2) Museumgoers have trouble finding a parking spot along Moraga Drive in Bel-Air. Tina Gerson/Daily News Map: Getting there |
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