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HomeMy WebLinkAbout5.i. Parking Ordinancet .moi. ('� il 'l Q 2875 -145TH ST W. �SiQ�i�u � 2 ROSEMOUNT, MINN--ESOTA 55068 co J l 612423-4411 TO: Stephan Jilk, City Administrator FROM: Dean Johnson, Director of Community Development DATE: August 14, 1987 SOBJ: Parking/ Nuisance Regulations Attached are revised amendments to the parking regulations in the City Code, These are in response to the City Council's request for additional regulations on junked vehicles and truck parking. The proposed amendments reflect all of the comments submitted by Red Staats, Mike Wozniak and yourself, in our last meeting. These have been copied to the Council, along with the existing parking regulations, Section 8-2 of the City Code. I have also sent a copy of the materialstoDave Grannis for his review. Amendments to City Code 8-2-1: Definitions; Vehicle The term "vehicle" means any vehicle which is self- propelled or designed to be pushed or pulled and shall include, but not be limited to, automobiles, buses, motorbikes, motorcycles, motor scooters, trucks, tractors, go-carts, golf carts, campers, trailers, boats, planes and gliders. Passenger Vehicle A motor vehicle which meets the criteria for "passenger" class registration and license plate as established by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety. Recreation Vehicle A vehicle which meets the criteria for "recreation" class registration and license plate as established by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety. Junked Vehicle The term "junked vehicle" means any vehicle, as defined in this section, which does not have lawfully affixed or attached thereto an unexpired state registration or license plate or plates, or the condition of which is wrecked, dismantled, partially dismantled, inoperative, abandoned or discarded. Private Property The term "private property" shall mean any real property within the City which is privately owned and which is not public property as defined in this section. Public Property The term "public property" means any street or highway and includes the entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained for the purposes of vehicular travel, and shall also mean any other publicly owned property or facility. 8-2-2: Parking Provisions: F. Storing or Parking Junked Vehicle Prohibited: It is unlawful for any person to park, store or leave any junked motor vehicle, whether attended or not, upon any public or private property within the City, or for any person, as an owner of or an occupant having control of private property within the City to permit the parking, storing or leaving of any junked vehicle upon such private property, unless such junked vehicle is within an enclosed building or structure lawfully situated upon private property or is so parked, stored or left upon private property lawfully zoned and operated as a junkyard. G. Unauthorized parking of vehicles or display of vehicles for sale shall not be permitted on public property or publicly zoned property. H. Residential Streets: No vehicles are permitted to be _ parked on public streets in residential zoning districts, except passenger vehicles with unexpired registration and license plates. i. Residential Neighborhoods: No vehicles are permitted to be parked on private property in residential zoning districts unless parked in a fully enclosed, authorized structure, except passenger vehicles and recreation vehicles which are parked in designated parking areas or the seasonal parking of owner occupied recreation vehicles and passenger vehicles, provided such seasonal parking' does not occupy front yards and is adequately screened to prevent being considered a public nuisance. J. Public Nuisance Declared: The presence of a junked vehicle upon private or public property within the City, except as permitted by the provisions of paragraph f. of this section, or the violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, is hereby declared to be a hazard to the public health and safety and a public nuisance which may be abated by the City as such. 8-2-1 ! 8-2-1 CHAPTER 2 DRIVING AND PARKING REGULATIONS SECTION: 8-2-1: Definitions 8-2-2: Parking Provisions 8-2-3: Towing and Storage of Illegally Parked Vehicles 8-2-4: Driving Near Fires Restricted 8-2-5: Penalty 8-2-1: I)E>F INITIONS: For the purpose of this Chapter, certain words and phrases are defined as follows: VEHICLE Any device in, or upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported upon a public highway. - STREET Any public street, avenue, road, alley or highway located in the City and established for the use of vehicles. OPERATOR Includes every individual who shall operate a vehicle as the owner thereof, or as the agent, employee, or permittee of the owner or any individual who is in actual physical control of a vehicle. PARKING The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, upon a street, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of, and while actually engaged in, receiving or discharging passengers or loading or unloading merchandise, or in obedience to traffic regulations, signs or signals or an involuntary stopping of the vehicle by reason of causes beyond the control of the operator of the vehicle. (Ord. X11.4, 2-1-72) 8-2-2 8-2-3 8-2-2: PARKING PROVISIONS: A. Parking Designated By Council: The City Council is authorized to designate parking and restrict the length of time parking shall be permitted at any place within the City. In establishing or changing parking zones or parking restrictions, the Council shall pass a resolution at a meeting adequately describing and defining said parking zones or parking restrictions. The Chief of Police is authorized to erect signs prohibiting or limiting parking at locations he deems appropriate. B. Winter Parking: No owner of a motor vehicle shall leave, park or permit the same to stand on any City street or alley for more than twenty four (24) hours during the period from November first through April first of each year, C. Parking After Snowfall: No owner of a motor vehicle shall leave, park or permit the same to stand on any street or alley fora period longer than four (4) hours after a snowfall of two inches (2") or more in depth or of such amount which necessitates the plowing and clearing of City streets and alleys of snow by the City, until such time that the streets or alleys in question are actually plowed and cleared of snow. D. Parking Near Fires: No person except Fire Department members shall park a car within three hundred feet (300') of a fire.' E Violating Parking Signs: No person shall park a vehicle in such a manner or location as to disobey or violate a parking sign which was posted by the City. The registered owner of a vehicle shall be deemed responsible for the parking of a vehicle under this subsection, along with the person who actually parks the vehicle. (Ord. X11.4, 2-1-72; amd. 1983 Code) 8-2-3: TOWING AND STORAGE OF ILLEGALLY PARKED VEHICLES: A. Removal and Storage: Members of the Police Department are hereby authorized and empowered to have removed any vehicle on any street or alley in violation of Section 8-2-2 or stalled thereon and to have such vehicle placed in a garage or outdoor area by any person engaged in the general garage or filling station business. B. Redemption, Charge: Such vehicle shall not be removed therefrom until reasonable costs of storing and towing the same have been fully paid. The police shall have the further authority to direct employees of the City to remove any such vehicle and to that event the Police Chief may impose a charge to be paid to the City Clerk before the said vehicle may be taken or recovered by the owner thereof. C. Lien Provided: In the event that any vehicle held or stored by the direction of the Chief of Police upon which there are charges for storage 1. See Section 8--2-4 of this Code. 8-2-3 8-2-5 C) or towing or both, shall not be reclaimed, recovered or taken by the owner thereof, there shall be deemed to be imposed upon such vehicle a ...�' possessory lien in the amount so charged and unpaid and should the owner thereof fail to pay the same, the the possessory lien may be foreclosed in the manner provided for by law: 8-2-4: DRIVING NEAR FIRES RESTRICTED: No person shall come ° within three hundred feet (3001 of fire apparatus going to a fire; immediately upon the approach of any fire apparatus or fire officers' cars sounding proper signals and responding to an alarm, all other vehicles shall draw as near as possible to the curb and remain standing until such apparatus or vehicle shall have passed.' (Ord. XIIA, 2-1-72) 8-2-5: PENALTY: Any person violating any of the provisions of this Chapter shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment for a period not exceeding ninety (90) days. (Ord. XII.4, 2-1-72; amd. 1983 Code) 1. See Section 8-2-2D of this Chapter.