The Township Committee finds, based upon its own investigation
and a public hearing, that it is appropriate to designate certain
residential streets, or any portions thereof, as preferential parking
zones for residents adjacent thereto, in which zones automobiles displaying
a permit or other authorized indicia may be exempt from parking prohibitions
or restrictions otherwise posted, marked or noticed. Each preferential
parking zone herein designated is so determined upon findings that
such zone is required to enhance or protect the quality of life in
the areas of the zone threatened by noise, traffic hazards, environmental
pollution or devaluation of real property resulting from commuter
vehicular traffic, that each such zone is necessary to provide reasonable
available and convenient parking for the benefit of the adjacent residents
and that each proposed zone is desirable to encourage the use of carpooling
and to encourage the use of mass transit.
The findings referred to in §
410-47 are based upon the following criteria established to the satisfaction of the Township Committee:
A. That commuter vehicles, defined as those vehicles operated by persons
whose destinations are to nonresidential areas, do or may substantially
and regularly interfere with the use of the majority of available
public street parking spaces by adjacent residents.
B. That the interference by the commuter vehicles referred to in Subsection
A occurs at regular and significant daily or weekly intervals.
C. That a substantial portion of the residents adjacent to the proposed
zone desire, agree or request establishment of such preferential parking
zones.
D. That a shortage of reasonably available and convenient residential-related
parking spaces exists in the area of the proposed zones.
E. That no alternative solution is feasible or practical.
No vehicle shall be parked or stopped adjacent to any curb in a preferential parking zone described in Schedule XXIV (§
410-77), attached to and made a part of this chapter, in violation of any posted or noticed prohibition, unless such vehicle shall have a permit prominently displayed on the street side of the dashboard of the vehicle in such a manner as to be clearly visible to an officer enforcing parking regulations.
The following vehicles shall be exempt from this parking permit
article:
A. Visitors. A vehicle displaying a current visitor's parking permit
may park a maximum of seven days, provided that the operator of the
vehicle is a bona fide guest of a resident within the permit parking
area. The visitor's permit shall be displayed on the street side of
the dashboard of the vehicle in such a manner as to be clearly visible
to an officer enforcing parking regulations.
Any person violating any provisions of this article, failing
to comply herewith or providing any false information in conjunction
with an application for a parking permit shall be subject to imprisonment
for a term not to exceed 30 days or a fine not to exceed $500, or
both, and shall forfeit his privilege to hold a parking permit under
this article for a period of one year.