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The City of Whittier provides its residents with street sweeping service as an effort to beautify and enhance the aesthetics of our 200-mile City street system.

Our goal is to service you by maintaining a healthy, safe and clean environment for our community. Street sweeping services support our efforts to comply with the Federal Clean Water Act and to conform to the National Pollutants Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)’s Best Management Practices to protect our storm water drain system.

We operate two (2) street sweepers daily. These sweepers are responsible for visiting and cleaning every street on a bi-weekly basis. You should notice these sweepers going by your property frontage every other week. Their job is to pick up litter and debris that are deposited along the roadway as well as the gutter areas.

The sweepers begin working in the early morning hours, usually around 5:30 AM and run until 2:00 PM Monday through Friday. Our sweepers also respond to your requests, as available, for additional sweeping under special or unusual circumstances.

Our job seems pretty straightforward; nevertheless, we encounter difficulty on a daily basis.

First, we constantly encounter parked cars along our sweeping routes. This problem is most apparent in multi-family residential neighborhoods, especially around high-density apartment developments. Parked cars interfere with our ability to clean the gutter area where the majority of litter and debris accumulates.

Second, many residents or their landscaping gardeners, blow off large piles of leaves and debris into the gutter areas for our sweepers to pick them up. You may not be aware that our sweepers are not designed to pick up large piles of leaves. Also, it should be noted that disposing such an act is in violation of the Federal Clean Water Act. Violators can be cited and fined for thousands of dollars for deliberately causing debris to run into the County’s storm drain system. Residents and their gardeners should make every effort to deposit the debris into the trash container.

For Street Sweeping Operating Schedule call (562) 464-3559.

To deliver effective street sweeping services on your street, the City has developed a procedure for you to establish a “NO PARKING” zone on street sweeping days. The designated zone will be posted at the end of the block and parking compliance will be enforced by the Whittier Police Department.

How Do I Go About Having “No Parking” Signs Posted?

All parking regulations are established by the City’s Parking and Transportation Commission (PTC). You can obtain a petition form from the Public Works Department and circulate it around your neighborhood. You should secure the signatures of your city block supporting the posting of the “NO PARKING” sign prohibiting on-street parking on the street sweeping day. A majority of support is needed.

The petition shall be submitted to the Public Works Department for verification of the percentage of supporters. A report, with the petition, will be forwarded to the Parking and Transportation Commission for review and action.

Why Do I Have To Submit A Petition?

It is our experience that resident initiated petitions allow neighborhoods to participate at the early stage of the issue. It also encourages and promotes a better understanding of the desires of your neighbors. It is an effective way to reach a consensus and secure a “buy-in” from the neighborhood.

What Happens After The PTC Approves My Request?

Once the PTC approves your request, staff will order the appropriate signs for posting in your neighborhood. To avoid the proliferation of signs, we will only install one sign at the beginning of each residential block. The sign will indicate the “time and day” that parking is prohibited. Normally, it will take about 3 to 4 weeks to have the signs fabricated and installed.

The Whittier Police Department will be responsible for enforcing the established parking zones. All vehicles that are parked in violation of the posted sign will be cited and fined.

For more information on the Street Sweeping program, please call (562) 464-3510.

To request a petition form to establish “NO PARKING” zones call (562) 464-3510.

To download the Street Sweeping Petition form in pdf format, Please click here.