LOS ANGELES — As businesses slowly reopen under special COVID-19 county guidelines, several cities in Southeast Los Angeles County have restored street sweeping parking enforcement, ordered trash placed in plastic bags and opened drive-through coronavirus testing sites.
Downey notified residents of its intent to issue tickets the first week of April after residents and businesses complained of trash piles, debris, disposable masks and plastic gloves strewn between parked cars that remained still on posted sweeping days.
In liaison with the Los Angeles County’s Department of Public Health, the city of Bell opened a drive-through coronavirus testing site at 6840 Atlantic Ave.
Bellflower added a second drive-through location at 16600 Civic Center Drive and Pico Rivera opened a third testing center at the Pico Rivera Sports Arena in the extreme northeastern part of town.
Community Legal Aid also offers free services to low-income people facing civil cases in Paramount on labor and housing matters related to the coronavirus, and Clean Power Alliance announced a $1 million fund to help with $25 or $50 electrical bill credits to businesses or residents with cash shortages.
“In order to slow the local transmission of COVID-19, the city needs all its residents, workers and visitors to obey the county order and stay at home,” City Attorney Roxanne Diaz said in a report.
