Traffic Nightmare Around Kenter Canyon School Resumes
Each school year, parents who drop off and pick up their children at Kenter Canyon Elementary School block neighbors' driveways (see photo above), park in red zones and double park to run their children across the street to school. Neighbors are unable to leave to take their own children to school and oftentimes must endure irate parents yelling at them when they politely ask them to move. Each year the police department comes once or twice to enforce parking and traffic violations, which improves matters for only a few weeks before parents resort to the same behavior.
Enough is enough. For the past seven years, BHA and the neighbors of Kenter Canyon School have tried, in vain, to enlist LAUSD's help in solving this problem. However, even simple steps like posting parent volunteers to enforce the traffic rules or reminding parents throughout the year not to park in red zones or block driveways have not been implemented.
We need your help. Do you live on Kenter? Have you experienced these problems? Do you have children who go to school at Kenter or have friends whose children go to school there? If so, we need to hear from you. Since LAUSD refuses to rectify this potentially dangerous situation, BHA will be looking into ways to privately enforce the rules.
Please email us at info@brentwoodhomeowners.org or attend our monthly meeting in September. You can sign up on our website.
