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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1976-2003 PARKING IN PUBLIC PARKING LOTS OPERATED BY THE CITY; ESTABLISHING PARKING TIME LIMIT. .,, • ORDINANCE NO. aguip:: • AN ORDINANCE relating to traffic control; regulating park- ing in public parking'lots operated by the City; establishing a parking time limit and providing for the issuance and use of long term parking. permits for public parking lots; amending Section. 9.50.675 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code; and declaring an emergency. • BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA: Section 1. Section 9.50.675 of the City of Yakima Munici- pal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: • • "9.50.675 Public parking lots. A. Parking time limit. In all parking lots operated by.the City of public parking, it shall be unlawful for any • person to park a vehicle for a period of time in excess of' two consecutive hours between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on any day except Sundays and public holidays, • unless the parked vehicle displays a valid long term parking permit issued pursuant to, and used in accordance with, the rules and regulations adopted by Subsection 9.50.675 C of • this section; provided, enforcement of this Subsection A, • and citations to be issued for violations hereof, shall • comply with the provisions of Subsection 9.60.040 B'ofthis Title. • B. Method of parking. (1) In all parking lots operated by the City for public parking, all vehicles shall be parked so as to be , contained within a designated parking space or stall, and it shall be unlawful for. any person to park a vehicle so that it occupies or overlaps more than one parking space or stall as designated by lines or markers. Any vehicle parked in violation of this Subsection 9.50.675 B in a traffic aisle, at or near an entrance or exit, or in any other place or manner so as to obstruct or • interfere.with the movement of vehicular traffic into, within or out of any such parking lot is subject to immedi- ate impoundment and disposition as provided by Chapter 6.84 of this code. • C. .Long term parking permits. (1) Issuance of permits. The issuance of permits to authorized long term vehicular parking in public parking lots operated by the City shall be administered by the office of the Yakima City Treasurer according to the follow- ing . rules and regulations: 1. The number long term permits to be issued for parking in any lot shall not exceed 50% the .parking spaces in each respective lot; provided, the total number of such permits issued shall not exceed 20% of the total parking spaces in all • lots. The Yakima City Treasurer is hereby author- ized to determine the number of permits to be applicable to various lots from time to time, within the limitations and according to the au- . thority, rules and regulations of this Section. When quotas are filled, subsequent applications will be placed on file, a waiting list will'be established, and permits will be issued as open- ings occur. • • • 2. Permits shall be issued only upon the written application of an owner or manager of a buiness located within the area bounded by the following streets: "B" Street on the north; Naches Avenue on the east; Walnut Street on the south; and First Street on the west. Application shall be made on forms furnished by the office of the Yakima City Treasurer. 3. Permits shall be issued only for vehicles regu- larly used in business operations. 4. The issuance of a permit does not reserve a park- ing space in the parking lot, and each applicant for a permit shall acknowledge in writing that no such space is reserved and that the issuance of a permit by the City does not guarantee the avail- ability of a parking space at all times or at any particular time. 5. Each permit shall have designated thereon the parking lot for which the permit is valid, and the attempted use of a permit for parking in a lot other than designated on the permit shall not afford the parking privileges which otherwise may be enjoyed by the permit holder. 6. Permits will be issued on a quarterly calendar basis only to expire on the last day of the months of March, June, September and December of each year. 7. The fee for a long term parking permit shall be forty-five dollars per calendar quarter to be paid 411 to the Yakima City Treasurer at the time a new permit is issued, or at the time of making appli- cation for a renewal. The fee for a new permit to expire in less than three calendar months will be pro rated at the rate of fifteen dollars for any full or partial calendar month remaining in that calendar quarter. No fee will be pro rated for less than one full calendar month. 8. Permits may be renewed on or after the twenty- fifth day of the month of expiration; applications for renewals will not be accepted prior to the twenty-fifth day of the month of expiration. 9. No new permits will be issued during the periods of time between March 25 and April 5; June 25 and July 5; August 25 and September 5; and December 25 and January 5 of each year. Renewal permits only will be issed during those time periods. 10. Applications by mail for renewal will not be accepted unless applicant has made prior arrange- ment therefor with the office of the Yakima City Treasurer. 11. Failure of a permit holder to apply for renewal within the renewal period specified by these rules may result in the loss of that permit to the next applicant therefor on the waiting list. 12. Permits will be cancelled on the application by the permit holder for such cancellation, and the unused permit fee will be refunded as pro rated at the rate of fifteen dollars per month for each full calendar month remaining in the period for which the permit was issued. No refund will be made for a partial calendar month. -2- 13. The Yakima City Treasurer is hereby authorized to adopt such further rules and regulations, not inconsistent with rules and regulations of this subsection, as the Treasurer deems necessary or advisable to administer the permit system author- ized and adopted by this subsection. (2) Use of permits. Permits issued pursuant to this subsection shall be used in the following manner; and shall authorize parking privileges, and shall be subject to re- ", strictions, as follows: 1. The permit. must be displayed within the parked vehicle in such a manner so as to be plainly visible and legible from a point outside the vehicle near the driver's position. 2. A vehicle displaying a valid parking permit may remain parked indefinitely at any time during the day or night in any parking space in the parking lot designated on the permit. 3. The failure to display a valid permit may result in the issuance of an overtime parking citation to the registered owner of the vehicle parked in violation of Subsection 9.50.675 A of this section. 4. .A vehicle displaying an expired'permit may result in the issuance of an overtime parking citation to the registered owner of the vehicle parked in violation of Subsection 9.50.675 A of this section." Section 2. This ordinance is one to provide for the • immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health, safety and welfare of the people. of the City of Yakima and an emergency is hereby declared to exist and this ordinance shall. be in full force and effect immediately upon its passage, approval and publication as provided by law and by the City Charter. PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this r, day , 1976. • . , ayor ATTEST: • /0 City 0 erk • -3-