{"id":203298,"date":"2026-03-04T04:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T04:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/203298\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T04:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T04:04:08","slug":"city-officials-encourage-families-to-use-new-pick-up-drop-off-zone-for-havens-elementary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/203298\/","title":{"rendered":"City officials encourage families to use new pick-up\/drop-off zone for Havens Elementary"},"content":{"rendered":"

From March 3 City of Piedmont press release:
Havens Elementary families can help reduce congestion and improve pedestrian safety in the Civic Center by using a new pick-up and drop-off zone on Highland Avenue across the street from the school, on the north side of Highland (westbound direction).<\/p>\n

Families approaching Havens from the south part of town should use the new white curb zone, which was added in January, instead of turning on Vista or Craig:
\u2022 Pull into the new white curb zone across the street from Havens
\u2022 Drop off your student
\u2022 A crossing guard is positioned to assist students across Highland Avenue
\u2022 Continue on Highland Avenue
The crossing guard will assist students in crossing Highland to reach campus.<\/p>\n

Reducing turn movements improves safety for students, families, and other road users during high-traffic school periods and helps reduce congestion in the Civic Center.<\/p>\n

Outside school drop-off and pick-up hours
Parking is allowed in the white curb zone outside of school drop-off and pick-up hours.<\/p>\n

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Parking update: New ADA spaces added; additional 2-hour parking will become available when the pool opens
The new drop-off zone was one part of a series of striping changes in the Civic Center area, designed to
\u2022 improve safety and reduce congestion during Havens Elementary drop-off and pick-up
\u2022 add more visitor parking to support increased Civic Center activity when the new Community Pool opens
\u2022 provide additional ADA parking
\u2022 align striping with a new state law (AB 413), with new reb curbs near corner approaching crosswalks, improving pedestrian visibility<\/p>\n

These updates were approved by the City Council in May 2025 following several months of public discussion and a community survey completed by nearly 500 residents.<\/p>\n

Still to come: Reconfiguration of Bonita Avenue to one-way traffic
A future phase of the Civic Center parking plan is planned for next summer and will include:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Converting Bonita Avenue between Vista Avenue and Oakland Avenue to one-way traffic (northbound toward Oakland Avenue)
\u2022 Eliminating the school drop-off zone on Bonita
\u2022 Adding additional ADA, time-limited, and employee parking spaces on Bonita<\/p>\n

The City Council approved the circulation and parking changes for the Civic Center in May 2025 after several months of discussion. The discussion was informed by a community survey completed by over 500 residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From March 3 City of Piedmont press release:Havens Elementary families can help reduce congestion and improve pedestrian safety…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-203298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}