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Home My WebLink About1999-006 Fees and regulations for parking ORDINANCE NO. 99- 06 AN ORDINANCE relating to traffic; setting fees and regulations for parking in City parking lots; regulating issuance of long -term parking permits in City parking lots; amending Sections 9.50.220 and Section 9.50.215 all of the City of Yakima Municipal Code. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA: Section 1. Section 9.50.220 is hereby amended to read as follows: "9.50.220 Long -term parking permits. A. Issuance of Permits. The issuance of permits to authorize long- term vehicular parking in par king lots owned by the City, 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 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; 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 b 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 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 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. Page 1 (lk)ord- Parking amendments -jw 7. The fee for a long -term parking permit shall beety one hundred twenty 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 thirty forty 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. 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 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 thirty forty 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. Permits shall not be issued to persons with outstanding City of Yakima parking violations. 14. 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 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 not be plainly visible and legible from a point outside the vehicle near the driver's position." Section 2. Section 9.50.215 is hereby amended to read as follows: "9.50.215 Parking fees for City -owned parking lots. A. The following fees shall be paid by any person who parks a vehicle in a City owned parking lot designated for fee parking: 0 -2 hours Free Fifty Seventy -five cents an hour for each additional hour, or part thereof. Page 2 (Ik)ord-parking amendments -jw .I Y • Provided, that no person shall park a vehicle in such parking lot between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. of any day j for more than an aggregate of two hours without paying the proper fee except on days designated in Subsection B as exempt. Such fee shall be deposited in a container located upon such parking lot in a slot whose number corresponds to the number on the parking place in which such vehicle is parked. B. The fee schedule in subsection A shall be in force during the hours from 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday, with the exception of the following holidays and Sundays: New Year's Day January 1 Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday 3rd Monday in January Memorial Day Last Monday in May Independence Day • July 4 Labor Day 1st Monday in September Veteran's Day November 11 Thanksgiving Day 4th Thursday in November Christmas Day December 25." Section 3: This ordinance shall be in full force and effect 30 days after its passage, approval, and publication as provided by law and by the City Charter. • PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this ( ' day of 1999. / • ATTEST: John Puccinelli, Mayor ( env✓ /Gl�v�it� �J GVI�) C+ City Clerk Publication Date: a _s 1 Q 9 Effective Date: D / 1 l • Page 3 (!k)ord- parking amendmentsyw • BUSINESS OF THE CITY COUNCIL YAKIMA, WASHINGTON AGENDA STATEMENT Item No. / j0 For Meeting Of 2/2/99 ITEM TITLE: Amendment to Ordinance increasing monthly parking permit fees and amendment to Ordinance increasing hourly parking fees in City -owned parking lots. SUBMITTED BY: Department of Finance & Budget /Customer Services Division CONTACT PERSON/TELEPHONE: Bert Tabayoyon, Customer Services Manager /6080 John R. Hanson, Director of Finance & Budget/6070 SUMMARY EXPLANATION: Attached is an amendment to Section 9.50.220 of the Municipal Code increasing the monthly rate for long -term parking permits from $30.00 per month to $40.00 per month. This was a DARC recommendation approved by the Council during the 1999 budget preparation. Also included is an amendment to Section 9.50.215 increasing the hourly fee from $.50 per hour to $.75 per hour beyond the two -hour limit. This is a DARC recommendation approved by the Council during the 1999 budget preparation. • Resolution Ordinance X Contract_ Other (Specify) Funding Source c\ APPROVED FOR SUBMITTAL: =?, City Manager STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Approval of the ordinance to increase the monthly long -term parking permit fee and increase the hourly parking fee beyond the two -hour limit. BOARD /COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: • COUNCIL ACTION: • Legal /BD /CS •