Los Angeles City Atty. Mike Feuer is negotiating a possible resolution to a dispute with the state Coastal Commission over an overnight curfew at Venice and other city beaches, officials said Monday.
Speaking at the City Council’s Arts, Parks, Health, Aging and River Committee meeting, Councilman Mike Bonin said the city was “trying to find some middle way” to resolve the commission’s objections to the midnight-to-5 a.m. ban. A spokeswoman for Coastal Commission Deputy Director Jack Ainsworth said the parties met Jan. 30.
The curfew on the city’s 11-mile coastline has been in place since 1988, when an alarm went up about gang violence along the shore. Many coastal cities later copied the Los Angeles ordinance.
With the dramatic drop in crime in recent years, the Coastal Commission began challenging the ban, most recently last April. Bonin, who represents the coast, responded by asking Feuer for a draft ordinance, which came before the arts and parks committee Monday.
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