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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1982-2645 LIMITING PARKING TIME IN THE CORE BUSINESS DISTRICT, AND ISSUANCE OF PARKING PERMITS. ORDINANCE NO. 4 5 III AN ORDINANCE relating to traffic control; limiting parking time in the core business district; repealing regulations applicable to public parking lots operated by the 41/ city; providing for the issuance of long term parking permits; amending Section 9.50.521, repealing Section 9.50.675 and enacting new Section 9.50.676, all of the City of Yakima Municipal Code; and declaring an emergency. WHEREAS, the city now owns and operates public parking lots in the core business district of the city, which parking lots are to be leased to and operated by a private party as public parking. Those lease arrangements are now concluded; and the City Council deems it to be vital to traffic and parking control in that Aft • core business district that the lease agreement be immediately executed to allow the private operation of those lots during the current Christmas shopping season, which compounds the traffic and parking problems sought to be relieved by the private operation of those parking lots. In order that the lease agreement for those lots may now be executed to allow those lots to be occupied by the private operator in a timely manner to reduce the holiday •parking and traffic problems referred to above, the City Council hereby finds and declares an emergency to exist so as to authorize this ordinance to be immediately effective in accordance with provisions of the Yakima City Charter, now, therefore, 0 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA: Section 1. Section 9.50.521 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "9.50.521 Parking Time Limited In Core Business District. When signs are erected in each block giving notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle for longer than two consecutive hours between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day except Sundays and public holidays on any street within 410 the area bounded on the west by the centerline of 1st Street, on the south by the centerline of Walnut Street, on the east by the centerline of n y o Naches Avenue, and on the north by the centerline of "B" Street; and for the purpose of this section it is unlawful for any person to move a vehicle from any public parking location on any street within the above described area and to park that vehicle at any other public parking location on any street within that area in • such a manner so that the accumulated parking time exceeds . two consecutive hours." Section 2. Section 9.50.675 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code is hereby repealed. Section 3. Section. 9.50.676 of the City of Yakima Municipal 411 Code is hereby enacted as a new section to read as follows: Ark "9.50.676 Long Term Parking Permits. A. Issuance of Permits. The issuance of permits to authorize long-term vehicular parking in parking lots owned by the city, but operated by private parties, shall be administered by the City Department of Finance and Budget according to the following rules and regulations: 1. The number of long-term permits to be issued for parking in any lot shall not exceed fifty percent of the parking spaces in each respective lot; provided, the total number of such permits issued shall not exceed twenty percent of the total parking spaces in all lots. The Yakima City Director of Finance and Budget is authorized to determine the number of permits to be applicable to various lots from time to time, within the limitations and according to the authority, rules and regulations of this section. When quotas are filled, subsequent applica- tions will be placed on file, a waiting list will be established, and permits will be issued as openings occur. 2. Permits shall be issued only upon the written application of an owner or manager of a business 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 Director of Finance and Budget. 3. Permits shall be issued only for vehicles regularly used in business operations. 4. The issuance of a permit does not reserve a parking 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 availability of a parking space at all times or at any particular time. 110 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 sixty dollars per calendar quarter to be paid to the Yakima City Director of Finance and Budget at the time a new permit is issued, or at the time of making application for a renewal. The fee for a new permit to expire in less than three calendar months will be prorated at the rate of twenty dollars for any full or partial calendar month remaining in that calendar quarter. No fee will be prorated for less than one full calendar month. -2- • 8. Permits may be renewed on or after the twenty- 411 fifty day of the month of expiration; applications for renewals will not be accepted prior to the twenty-fifth day of the month of expiration. 40 9. No new permits will be issued during the periods of time between March 25th and April 5th; June 25th and July 5th; August 25th and September 5th; and December 25th and January 5th of each year. Renewal permits only will be issued during those time periods. 10. Applications by mail for renewal will not be accepted unless applicant has made prior arrangement therefor with the office of the Yakima City Director of Finance and Budget. 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 prorated at the rate of twenty 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. 13. The Yakima City Director of Finance and Budget is authorized to adopt such further rules and regulations, not inconsistent with rules and regulations of this sub- section, as the director deems necessary or advisable to administer the permit system authorized and adopted by this subsection. A vehicle displaying a valid parking permit issued pursuant • to this section may remain parked in any parking space in the parking lot designated on the permit, without paying a parking fee, for a period of time not to exceed twenty- four consecutive hours. 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 A ft vehicle near the driver's position. 41, Section 4. 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 41, Charter. PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this,,,W day of Pet_j_x_, , 1982. • S / LYNN CARMICHAFI Mayor ATTEST: /S/ KAREN S. ROBERTS City Clerk _3_