Parking Lot Guidelines
Please follow these guidelines to help alleviate the congestion during
drop off and pick up times. We have worked hard to improve the parking
lot plan and faciliate an efficient process. Have you considered the bus
for your child? A bus pass is only $10 a year, much cheaper than gas
these days. The bus is available in most neighborhoods and is safe and
reliable. Check out the Bus Schedules and
Routes.
As you may have noticed,
the parking lot has new stripes. The striping is a result of
conversations with parents, teachers, the California Highway Patrol, and
school district officials.
Please take time to read these
parking lot procedures as it will make drop off and pick-up safer,
quicker, and easier.
There are
now two lanes entering our lot from Pinehurst. Please pull into the lot
and pick a lane and pull as far forward as possible.
As you move through our lot, the two lanes
merge into one lane at the park. Taking turns, merge one car from each
lane. Alternate.
Please note that the area next to the park is a No Parking Zone.
The
student drop off and loading zone begins at the stairs and continues
along the curb to the flagpole. Pull as far forward as possible.
The school buses willl be parked on the left side
of the parking lot, and the bus drivers will make sure the students are
escorted safely across and loaded on the buses.
Please note that
anyone who has parked in that area, facing the street, will be blocked
until the buses leave at 2:10 Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays,
or 12:10 on Restructured Wednesdays.
If you've parked down the street in the neighborhood, please walk
around the parking lot by the park to the pathway near the entrance to
the parking lot. There is a crosswalk on the street there.
Please
do not call to your children from your car asking them to cross the
parking lot to come to you.
Please do not leave your car parked
in the middle of the street while you "quickly run" across to get your
child from in front of the school.
Also, please do not park your
car and leave it in the line of cars that are there to pick up
children.
The center "island" is STAFF ONLY parking. Please don't think it's OK
to park there for a minute and run your child across the path of the
cars moving to the Unloading Zone by the steps.
One more thing, please do not park in the RESERVED
parking spaces. One is set aside for the principal and two are set aside
for the high bidders in last year's fund raiser. Those spaces were
expensive and we honor the contribution those winners made to the school
by not parking in there.
On a similar note, please honor the
handicapped parking spaces in the front. They are closest to the
crosswalk to make it easier for handicapped adults to reach their cars
safely.
The back parking lot, by the cafeteria, is for staff, and
staff handicapped parking only. It is not a safe place to drop off or
pick up children. Please do not use it. (Please note: Parking in any
handicapped zone can cost you a $275 fine in most areas in California, including
here.)
School buses have the
right-of-way, please do not block their entrance to the parking lot.
They also must leave on time, therefore, they have the rightof- way at
the exit.
On rainy days, you might consider coming earlier,
rather than later to deliver your child to school. After school it would
be easier on you to arrive later, rather than earlier, to pick up your
child.
Alternatives to driving your child to school; School
buses! It only costs $10 a year for your child to ride the school bus!
They are safe, reliable, and cut down on traffic congestion in the
parking lot.
Please follow these guidelines to help alleviate the congestion during drop off and pick up times. We have worked hard to improve the parking lot plan and faciliate an efficient process. Have you considered the bus for your child? A bus pass is only $10 a year, much cheaper than gas these days. The bus is available in most neighborhoods and is safe and reliable. Check out the Bus Schedules and Routes.
As you may have noticed,
the parking lot has new stripes. The striping is a result of
conversations with parents, teachers, the California Highway Patrol, and
school district officials.
Please take time to read these
parking lot procedures as it will make drop off and pick-up safer,
quicker, and easier.
There are now two lanes entering our lot from Pinehurst. Please pull into the lot and pick a lane and pull as far forward as possible.
As you move through our lot, the two lanes merge into one lane at the park. Taking turns, merge one car from each lane. Alternate.
Please note that the area next to the park is a No Parking Zone.
The
student drop off and loading zone begins at the stairs and continues
along the curb to the flagpole. Pull as far forward as possible.
The school buses willl be parked on the left side
of the parking lot, and the bus drivers will make sure the students are
escorted safely across and loaded on the buses.
Please note that
anyone who has parked in that area, facing the street, will be blocked
until the buses leave at 2:10 Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays,
or 12:10 on Restructured Wednesdays.
If you've parked down the street in the neighborhood, please walk around the parking lot by the park to the pathway near the entrance to the parking lot. There is a crosswalk on the street there.
Please do not call to your children from your car asking them to cross the parking lot to come to you.
Please do not leave your car parked in the middle of the street while you "quickly run" across to get your child from in front of the school.
Also, please do not park your car and leave it in the line of cars that are there to pick up children.
The center "island" is STAFF ONLY parking. Please don't think it's OK to park there for a minute and run your child across the path of the cars moving to the Unloading Zone by the steps.
One more thing, please do not park in the RESERVED parking spaces. One is set aside for the principal and two are set aside for the high bidders in last year's fund raiser. Those spaces were expensive and we honor the contribution those winners made to the school by not parking in there.
On a similar note, please honor the handicapped parking spaces in the front. They are closest to the crosswalk to make it easier for handicapped adults to reach their cars safely.
The back parking lot, by the cafeteria, is for staff, and staff handicapped parking only. It is not a safe place to drop off or pick up children. Please do not use it. (Please note: Parking in any handicapped zone can cost you a $275 fine in most areas in California, including here.)
School buses have the right-of-way, please do not block their entrance to the parking lot. They also must leave on time, therefore, they have the rightof- way at the exit.
On rainy days, you might consider coming earlier, rather than later to deliver your child to school. After school it would be easier on you to arrive later, rather than earlier, to pick up your child.
Alternatives to driving your child to school; School buses! It only costs $10 a year for your child to ride the school bus! They are safe, reliable, and cut down on traffic congestion in the parking lot.