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Department Approval: DPW/TP M qiiw DATE: 07/21/03 ITEM ]PTO: X.C. Manager approved: Agenda Section: 0% ORDINANCES Item Description: New Comprehensive Parking regulations — A compilation of City Regulations (PF3475) 1.0 BACKGROUND: Staff seeks to create a more clearly written parking ordinance. No new substantial regulations are offered here, but rather a compilation in one section of the City Code. As proposed, one new city code section would be created, with references as to other locations that the same requirement can be found in the Code, 1.2 The planning staff' has compiled a comprehensive ordinance of parking regulations that have been adopted in more than 20 ordinances over the past 50 years. These regulations are scattered throughout the City Code and are difficult for resident and developer as well as city staff` to find and interpret. Charts (in color) should make it easier to access and read. 1.3 The Planning Commission has previously reviewed this document and asked for refinement of the format and organization by dividing the issues that deal with new parking space construction from those issues that deal with existing parking and nuisances. This was done. On July 9, 2003, the Planning Commission held a hearing on the proposed ordinance. The Commission was enthusiastic in their recommendation to adopt the consolidated parking section ordinance 5 -0. The Commission also reconnmended that the Council amend existing Section 407.0M3 and in proposed Section 101 8.1 3 D (Parking Nuisances) to establish a 14 day maximum period for outdoor storage of ` vehicles, rather than the current 30 day maximum. The Section would read: "No person shall cause, undertake, permit or allow the outside parking and storage of vehicles in residentially -coned property for more than - rr fourteen (14) days unless it complies with the following requirement.. . . Next Page 1