HomeMy WebLinkAbout1986-2935 FEES FOR LONG TERM PARKING PERMITS ORDINANCE NO. 2935
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AN ORDINANCE relating to traffic; setting fees for long term parking
permits and amending Section 9.50.220 of the City of Yakima
Municipal Code.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section 1. Section 9.50.220 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code is
hereby amended to read as follows:
"9.50.220 Long -term parking permits.
A. Issuance of Permits. The issuance of permit 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 respec-
tive 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 lim-
itations and according to the authority, rules and regulations of this sec -
tion. When quotas are filled, subsequent applications 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; Neches 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.
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 privi-
leges 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 seventy -five
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 -five
dollars for any full or partial calendar month remaining in that calendar
quarter. No fee will be prorated for lees 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 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 therefore 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 therefore 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
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prorated at the rate of twenty -five 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 subsection, as the director deems necessary or advisable
to administer the permit system authorized and adopted by this subsection.
B, A vehicle displaying a valid parking permit issued pursuant to
this section may remain parked in any parking space in the parking 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 vehicle near the driver's position.
Section 2. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty days
after its passage, approval and publication as provided by law and by the
City Charter.
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PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this 21 st day
of January , 1986.
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Publication Bate 1/24/86
Effective Date 2/24'/86
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