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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION DATE: 08/04/03 ITEM NO: X.c. Department Approval: DPW ITP Item Description: Agenda Section: ORDINANCES New Comprehensive Parking Regulations -- A compilation of City Regulations Second Reading (PF3475) Manager Approved: 1.0 BACKGROUND: 1.1 Staff seeks to create a more clearly written parking ordinance. No ~ 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. 2.0 PLANNING COMMISSION ACTIONS: 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 recommended that the Council amend existing Section 407.02M3 and in proposed Section 1018.13 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-zoned property for more than thirty (30) days fourteen (14) days unless it complies with the following requirement. ... Next Page