10.42.030 Designation process and criteria.
A. Petition of Residents. The director is authorized to establish districts upon the following criteria:
1. Upon receipt of a written request for a permit parking district, the director shall create a petition with all the addresses of the affected properties. The petition shall be circulated by the requesting party to obtain the signatures, phone numbers and any other data requested by the director of the residents of the affected properties. A letter shall be sent to all the affected properties notifying the residents that a permit parking district is being considered and shall list the requester’s name and phone number. Upon receipt and verification of the petition signed by persons occupying dwelling units comprising not less than seventy-five percent of the developed frontage of the street proposed for designation, the director shall undertake such surveys or studies as are deemed necessary to determine whether a street should be designated as a residential parking district.
2. Findings of Need and Necessity. Each permit parking zone shall be designated only upon findings by the director that such zone: (1) is necessary to provide reasonably available and convenient parking for the benefit of the adjacent residents; (2) that the proposed zone is desirable to encourage the use of car pooling; (3) enhances or protects the quality of life in the area of the proposed zone threatened by litter, noise, traffic hazards, environmental pollution or devaluation of real property resulting from commuter vehicular traffic and parking; and (4) encourages commuter vehicles to park in designated off-street parking facilities. The director may recommend to the city council that the street be designated as a residential parking district. The proposed parking district shall consider surrounding streets that could be affected if the requested street becomes a permit parking district. If it is determined that the surrounding streets will be affected such streets shall be included as part of the proposed permit parking district. The residents of the streets proposed for addition to the district shall be notified and their responses counted and included in the calculations of subsection (A)(1) of this section.
B. Factors to Be Considered. In determining whether a street identified as eligible for designation as a residential parking area may be so designated, the director shall consider factors and criteria that include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. The extent to which the residents desire and need permit parking and their willingness to bear the administrative and all permit costs in connection therewith (Chapter 3.24, Section 3.24.040 item numbers 60.5 and 60.6);
2. The extent to which legal on-street parking spaces are not available for the use of residents and their guests because they are occupied by commuter vehicles;
3. Whether other regulatory measures would better solve the problem, e.g., parking restrictions and strict enforcement of such restrictions. (Ord. 99-02 § 1, 1999)