The Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) has launched a new service to install temporary food pick-up parking zone signs near restaurants.

The new program is designed to help restaurants by providing additional short-term parking options as they seek to accommodate the increased demand for food pick-up while restaurants are closed to dine-in customers.

The new signs designate a single parking spot where customers may park while they pick-up food from a nearby business. Motorists are allowed to use the spot for up to 10 minutes.

LADOT says it is also continuing to adjust operations to assist residents and businesses to comply with social distancing requirements to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus. These include relaxed parking restrictions, deferred payment deadlines for citations, online hearing and permitting procedures, and changes to levels of service on transit lines.

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