Downtown Manhattan Beach Parking Guide Summer 2020

MANHATTAN BEACH, CA — In an effort to help downtown Manhattan Beach businesses survive the pandemic, new parking regulations are now in use downtown. Here's what you need to know.

• All street meters allow a one-hour parking maximum to allow people shopping at businesses an opportunity to park close to the business they are visiting.
• If you plan to dine and shop, dine, go to the beach and do anything that will take more than one hour to do, public parking lots offering 2 to 8 hours of parking are available throughout downtown.
• The upper pier parking lots are enforced 24/7. Please pay attention to parking lot signage, check the map provided and visit the downtown MB website.
• All other street meters and parking lots are enforced 8 a.m.-9 p.m.
• Here is a Public Parking Lots Interactive Tour.

"Parking has always been one of the most difficult hurdles for businesses in Downtown Manhattan Beach," said Jill Lamkin, executive directors of the Downtown Manhattan Beach Business and Professionals Association, "and it’s further complicated by COVID. Our restaurants cannot welcome guests indoors and are surviving by serving outside. Locals embraced outdoor dining with overwhelming enthusiasm, and we are thankful! It does, however, further reduce our precious parking. Add beach-goers to that, and retailers and service providers are left with very little parking for the customers they so desperately need to survive."

She noted, "Please also help us by preserving parking for those who truly need it and we will save more of our businesses by allowing people to quickly drop into their favorite store, salon or grab a to-go meal. If you can walk or bike, please do. We know the shortened parking isn’t convenient, but we’re in survival mode and we hope you’ll support us in our efforts."