Gardena, CA Filming & Production: Street Closures (2026)

Section 5.36.050(A)(4) requires a film production permit applicant to designate the specific city facilities or public streets it requests to use, and makes that use subject to a permit fee under Chapter 11.08 or a fee set by City Council resolution. Before granting the permit, the community development director must find the shoot will not unduly interfere with vehicular traffic or pedestrian movement, and, under subsection C, may impose reasonable conditions on the time, place and manner of the production, including requiring the presence of Gardena Police Department or Public Works Department personnel at the applicant's expense, posting no-parking signs and placing other traffic control devices at the applicant's expense, restricting the days and hours of filming, and giving advance notice of the closure to affected property owners.

Applicants must also designate any on-duty city personnel they want assigned to the shoot and deposit the estimated cost of that staffing, calculated from the employees' hourly salary rates, benefits and the city's administrative overhead, in advance. A production that fails to secure city facilities or street closures through this process, or that occupies a public street without the corresponding city approval, is filming without the permit that Section 5.36.030 otherwise requires for any Gardena location.