[Ord. 160-2010, 10/4/2010]
Wherever a space is marked off on any street
for the parking of an individual vehicle, every vehicle parked there
shall be parked wholly within the lines bounding that space, and it
shall be a violation of this Part for any person to park a vehicle
or allow it to remain parked otherwise.
[Ord. 160-2010, 10/4/2010]
Parking shall be prohibited at all times in
the following locations:
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Street
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Side
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Between
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Warner Lane
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Both
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Morehall Road to Phoenixville Pike
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[Ord. 160-2010, 10/4/2010; as amended by
Ord. 182-2013, 1/4/2013, § 1; and by Ord. 2015-195, 11/2/2015]
Parking prohibited in certain locations, certain
days and hours. Parking shall be prohibited in the following locations
at all times on the days and between the hours indicated in this section,
as follows:
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Street
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Side
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Between
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Days
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Hours
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Academic Way
[Added by Ord. 2016-198, 5/2/2016] |
Both
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Township Line Road and Southwest Avenue
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All
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24
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Coldstream Road
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North
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Township Line Road and Charlestown Road
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All
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24
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Maryhill Road
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Both
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Coldstream Road and Jamie Lane
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All
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24
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Southwest Avenue
[Added by Ord. 2016-198, 5/2/2016] |
Both
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Academic Way and Beulah Heights Street
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All
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24
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[Ord. 160-2010, 10/4/2010]
It shall be unlawful for any person to park,
or to allow to remain parked, on any of the following streets or parts
of streets any vehicle other than a passenger car (which shall not
include any bus, motor home or passenger car attached to a trailer
of any kind):
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Street
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Between
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|---|---|
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Residential Districts
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All hours
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[Ord. 160-2010, 10/4/2010]
No person shall park a vehicle, or allow it
to remain parked, for longer than the time indicated, in any of the
following locations, at any time on the days and between the hours
indicated:
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Street
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Side
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Between
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Days
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Hours
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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(Reserved)
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[Ord. 160-2010, 10/4/2010]
The following are established as special purpose
parking zones, and it shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle
or to allow it to remain parked in any such zone except as specifically
provided for that zone:
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Street
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Side
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Location
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Authorized Purpose or Vehicle
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(Reserved)
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[Ord. 160-2010, 10/4/2010]
It shall be unlawful for any person to stop,
stand or park a vehicle (other than a pedalcycle) on the roadway side
of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of any street,
except that standing or parking for the purpose of loading or unloading
persons or property shall be permitted on the following named streets
on Monday through Saturday, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 11:30
a.m. and between the hours of 1:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m., and for no
longer than necessary for the loading or unloading.
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Street
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Side
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Between
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(Reserved)
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[Ord. 160-2010, 10/4/2010]
[Ord. 160-2010, 10/4/2010]
1.
Findings and Purpose. The Township finds that:
A.
Certain residential areas in the Township are subjected
to commuter vehicle parking, therefore depriving the residents of
those areas of spaces in which to park their own vehicles.
B.
Those residential streets are also subjected to a
high degree of commuter traffic which substantially reduces the quality
of the ambient air level.
C.
The establishment of a parking permit program for
certain affected areas should facilitate efficient movement of traffic
by providing for parking preference during certain hours of the day
and days of the week. Therefore, the Township considers it to be in
the interest of the people of the Township to provide for the establishment
of a residential permit parking program to insure primary access to
available parking spaces by neighborhood residents and also to provide
a cleaner ambient air level.
2.
COMMUTER VEHICLE
PROPRIETOR
RESIDENT
RESIDENTIAL AREA
Definitions. For the purpose of this section, words
and terms listed in this subsection, as follows, shall have the following
meanings:
A motor vehicle parked in a residential area by a person
not a resident of that residential area.
A person who owns or leases real estate within a residential
area of which he is not a resident, but who owns or manages a business
enterprise or professional office maintained at that address. For
the purpose of this section, a proprietor shall be entitled to one
parking permit for that business or professional office address.
A person who owns or leases real property within a residential
area and who maintains either a voting residence or bona fide occupancy,
or both, at that address.
A contiguous area containing public highways or parts of
public highways primarily abutted by residential property or residential
and nonbusiness property (such as schools, parks, places of worship,
hospitals and nursing homes).
3.
Criteria. The residential areas designated in Subsection
4 of this section are those deemed impacted and hence eligible for
residential parking on the basis of the following criteria:
A.
During any period between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and
6:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday, except legal holidays, the number
of vehicles parked (or standing), legally or illegally, on the streets
in the area is equal to 70% or more of the legal, on-street parking
capacity of the area. For the purpose of this criterion, a legal parking
space shall be 20 linear feet.
B.
During the same period as specified in paragraph .A,
10% or more of the vehicles parked (or standing) on the streets in
the area are not registered in the name of a person residing in the
area. For the purpose of this criterion, the latest available information
from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation regarding registration
of motor vehicles shall be used.
Provided: in determining that a specific area
identified as impacted and eligible for residential permit parking
is designated as a residential permit parking area, the following
factors are taken into consideration:
(1)
The local and metropolitan needs with respect
to clean air and environment.
(2)
The possibility of a reduction in total vehicle
miles driven in the Township.
(3)
The likelihood of alleviating traffic congestion,
illegal parking and related health and safety hazards.
(4)
The proximity of public transportation to the
residential area.
(5)
The desire and need of the residents for residential
permit parking and their willingness to bear the administrative costs
in connection with it.
(6)
The need for parking in excess of the residential
permit parking program in proximity to establishments located in the
residential permit parking area and used by the general public for
religious, health or educational purposes.
4.
Designation of Residential Permit Parking Areas. The
following are designated as residential permit parking areas:
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Area
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Bounded By and Including
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(Reserved)
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Signs shall be erected along the streets in
each residential permit parking area, indicating the days, hours,
locations and conditions under which parking shall be by permit only.
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5.
Application for Permit. Application for a residential
parking permit shall be made to the Chief of Police by the person
desiring the permit, who shall be only the owner or the driver of
a motor vehicle who resides on or is a proprietor of property immediately
adjacent to a street or other location within a residential parking
permit area. A separate application shall be required for each motor
vehicle, and each application shall be accompanied by a permit fee,
in an amount as established by resolution of the Township, which shall
be for the use of the Township, to be applied to the cost of administering
the residential permit parking program. Each application shall contain
the following information: the name of the owner or the driver, as
the case may be, of the motor vehicle; the address of the resident
or the proprietor, as the case may be; the make, model and registration
number of the motor vehicle; and the driver number as taken from the
applicant's current driver's license. At the discretion of the Chief
of Police, the applicant shall be required, at the time of making
application, to present his driver's license and the vehicle registration
card.
6.
Issuance of Permit. Upon receipt of the application
and the permit fee, and determination by him that the information
upon the application shows that the applicant is entitled to a residential
parking permit, the Chief of Police shall issue to the applicant a
residential parking permit, which shall be valid for the remainder
of the calendar year. The permit shall display the serial and registration
numbers of the motor vehicles, the residential parking area number
and the expiration date. The permit shall be renewable annually before
the expiration date, upon making application for renewal and payment
of the permit fee. It shall be unlawful and a violation of this section
for any person to display other than the current and valid permit
while standing or parking in a residential permit parking area at
any time when those permits are to be displayed.
7.
Temporary and Exemption Parking Permits. Temporary
parking permits may be issued by the Chief of Police, upon payment
of a fee in an amount as established by resolution of the Board of
Supervisors, to bona fide visitors of residents of a designated residential
permit parking area, and exemption parking permits may be issued,
without payment of a fee, to handicapped persons.
8.
Responsibility of Permit Holder.
A.
Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the
contrary, the holder of a residential parking permit shall be permitted
to stand or park a motor vehicle operated by him in any designated
residential parking area during those times when parking of motor
vehicles is permitted in that area. While a vehicle for which a residential
parking permit has been issued is so parked, that permit shall be
displayed so as to be clearly visible through the windshield of the
vehicle. A residential parking permit shall not guarantee or reserve
to the holder a parking space within a designated residential permit
parking area.
B.
A residential parking permit shall not authorize its
holder to stand or park a motor vehicle in any place where or at any
time when stopping, standing or parking of motor vehicles is prohibited
or set aside for other specified types of vehicles, nor shall the
permit exempt its holder from the observance of any traffic or parking
regulation other than residential permit parking regulation or restriction.
C.
No person other than the permit holder whose name
appears on the permit shall use a residential parking permit or display
it on a vehicle operated; any such use or display by a person other
than the permit holder shall constitute a violation of this section
by the permit holder and by the person who so used or displayed the
parking permit.
D.
It shall constitute a violation of this section for
any person falsely to represent himself as eligible for a residential
parking permit or to furnish false information in an application to
the Chief of Police in order to obtain a residential parking permit.
9.
Revocation of Permits. The Chief of Police shall have
authority to revoke the residential parking permit of any permit holder
found to be in violation of any provision of this section. Upon written
notification to the present holder of the revocation, the permit holder
shall surrender the permit to the Chief of Police. Failure to do so,
when so requested, shall constitute a violation of this section. Provided,
any person receiving such a notice may, within 10 days after the date
of the notice, appeal to the Township for a hearing on the revocation,
and the decision of the Township shall be final.
[Ord. 160-2010, 10/4/2010]
It shall be unlawful for any person to park
a vehicle or to allow the same to remain parked, at any time between
[ ] and [ ] on any of the following portions of the highways of the
Township on the days hereby respectively designated for street sweeping
purposes:
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Street
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Between
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Day
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(Reserved)
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[Ord. 160-2010, 10/4/2010]
Any person who violates any provision of this
Part, upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more
than $50 and costs. Provided, it shall be the duty of the police officers
and of parking enforcement personnel of the Township to report to
the appropriate official all violations of any provision of this Part
indicating, in each case, the section violated; the license number
of the vehicle involved in the violation; the location where the violation
took place; and any other facts that might be necessary in order to
secure a clear understanding of the circumstances attending the violation.
The police officer or other person making the report shall also attach
to or place upon every such vehicle a notice stating that the vehicle
was parked in violation of this Part. The notice shall contain instructions
to the owner or driver of the vehicle that if he will report to the
office of the Chief of Police and pay the sum of $ _____ within _____
hours after the time of the notice, or if he will place the sum of
$ _____ enclosed within the envelope provided in any of the special
parking fine boxes installed at various locations within the Township,
that act will save the violator from prosecution and from payment
of the fine and costs prescribed in the first sentence of this section.
