Holiday Parking Free, New Street Sweeping

Holiday Parking

The San Anselmo Police Department is pleased to announce that the town is providing free parking to holiday shoppers in San Anselmo. The free holiday shopping period began on Friday, Nov. 25 and will continue through Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012. During this period the parking meters will not be operating. As always, however, the disabled, red zone and other safety related parking violations will be enforced.

Street Sweeping

The town began street sweeping services with a new company effective Thursday, Dec. 1. Check the new sweeping schedule online.

For December, when the leaves are still falling off the trees, residential streets will be swept twice during the month. Each commercial street will be swept once per week on Monday morning. Each residential street will be swept on the first and third scheduled day of the month. For example, if your day is Thursday, it would be swept on the first and third Thursday of December: Dec. 1 and 15. If your day is Monday, it would be swept on the first and third Monday of December: Dec. 5 and 19.

In general, the schedule for sweeping is as follows. Please check the schedule online for your specific residential street. The colors indicate the colors on the map.

Monday (red) - Commercial areas, plus the neighborhood around Faude Park. Tuesday (purple) - Downtown neighborhoods, Saunders/Madrone areas. Wednesday (green) - Barber, Sequoia and Los Angeles Blvd. neighborhoods. Thursday (pink) - Butterfield Road neighborhoods.
Friday (brown) - Oak Knoll Ave., Redwood Rd and Laurel Ave. neighborhoods.

For January, the schedule will change again, as most of the leaves will be off the trees. Sweeping in January through September will revert to once per month, on the first scheduled day of the month.

We do need your help with street sweeping, however. We get a lot of complaints about materials that are not picked up by the sweeper. Most of these complaints originate from the fact that cars are parked on the roadway and keep the sweeper from doing a good job. Now that we have a schedule that we can count on, please help the sweeper by keeping your street free of parked cars on your assigned sweeping day!

For questions, please call Dave Craig, Public Works Supervisor, at 258-4601.

Library News

The will be hosting a Jewelry Making Workshop with Chelsee Robinson for Teens and Tweens 11 years old and up on Wednesday, Dec. 7, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. In this fun, hands-on jewelry workshop, local designer Chelsee Robinson will guide you in creating your own beautiful bracelet, necklace, or earrings for the holidays. Materials are provided and the workshop is limited to 25 participants. Call the library at 258-4656 or stop by to reserve your spot!

Also, don't forget the library has e-readers loaded with adult and children's books on loan at the reference desk. Check one out and see what the buzz is about.

Historical Commission

Volunteers are needed on the town’s Historical Commission. The commission was created to preserve the history of San Anselmo by means of research and the collection and organization of information, photographs and artifacts concerning the town’s development.

Currently the Commission is actively involved in giving downtown walking tours to school groups, creating displays for the hallway display area on the first floor of the Library, and writing .

The commission consists of eleven members and meets at 7:30 p.m. on the third Wednesday of the month in the Historical Museum, located on the first floor of the Library. There are three seats available.

For more information or an application, go to the application online or contact Jeannie Courteau at jcourteau@townofsananselmo.org or 258-4691. Applications for this opening should be submitted by Friday, Dec. 16.