(a) 
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with law or the directions of a police officer or traffic-control device, in any of the following places:
(1) 
On a sidewalk;
(2) 
In front of a public or private driveway;
(3) 
Within an intersection;
(4) 
Within fifteen (15) feet of a fire hydrant;
(5) 
On a crosswalk;
(6) 
Within twenty (20) feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;
(7) 
Within thirty (30) feet upon the approach to any flashing beacon, stop sign, or traffic-control signal located at the side of a roadway;
(8) 
Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within thirty (30) feet of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone, unless the traffic engineer has indicated a different length by signs or markings;
(9) 
On unpaved areas of private property in all dwelling districts;
(10) 
Within twenty (20) feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station and on the side of a street opposite the entrance to any fire station within seventy-five (75) feet of such entrance (when properly signposted);
(11) 
Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic;
(12) 
On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street;
(13) 
Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway tunnel;
(14) 
At any place where the street curb has been painted red by the traffic engineer;
(15) 
At any place where official signs prohibit stopping;
(16) 
On unpaved public right-of-way except when such unpaved public right-of-way is an extension of a driveway;
(17) 
On extensions of driveways on public right-of-way in residential districts when such parking creates a safety or traffic hazard;
(18) 
In fire lanes on public or private property as provided in Schedule L of article VI of this chapter;
(19) 
In or on public alleys.
(b) 
No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his control into any prohibited area specified above or away from a curb such distance as is unlawful.
(1965 Code, sec. 20-116; Ordinance 1275 adopted 4/13/1992; Ordinance 1295 adopted 1/25/1993)
No person shall stand or park a vehicle upon any roadway for the principal purpose of:
(1) 
Displaying it for sale.
(2) 
Washing, greasing, filling with gas or oil or repairing such vehicle, except repairs necessitated by an emergency.
(1965 Code, sec. 20-117)
(a) 
The city council may designate any street intersection as a stop intersection and designate the streets upon which vehicles shall stop before entering such intersections. Whenever any intersection has been so designated, the traffic engineer shall cause the same to be identified by the erection of stop signs indicating which vehicles approaching the intersection shall stop, and it shall be the duty of the driver of any vehicle approaching such a sign to bring such vehicle to a complete stop at such sign or at a clearly marked stop line before entering the intersection, except when directed to proceed by a police officer or a traffic-control signal, and after so stopping, may only proceed thereafter when such driver may safely enter the intersection without interference or collision with traffic using such different street or roadway.
(b) 
Schedule B, indicating the location of stop signs, is set out in article VI of this chapter.
(c) 
Written notice of the proposed installation or removal of a "Stop" sign shall be mailed to all property owners within three hundred (300) feet of the location of the "Stop" sign at least ten (10) days prior to the date of city council consideration of such action; except that such signs can be installed where no such control exists upon the recommendation of the police chief and the public works director, and with the approval of the city council.
(1965 Code, sec. 20-119; Ordinance 1588 adopted 5/23/2005; Ordinance 1713 adopted 6/4/2007)
(a) 
The traffic engineer shall cause parking spaces to be maintained and marked off in and on such streets and parts thereof as may be designated by the city council and he shall cause spaces in which parking is prohibited to be maintained and marked off in and on such streets and parts thereof as may be designated by the city council. The traffic engineer shall also cause time-limited parking areas to be maintained and marked off in and on such part or parts of streets as may be designated by the city council. All such spaces or areas shall be clearly indicated by appropriate signs or markings.
(b) 
In areas designated as time-limited parking areas, parking may be limited to any period prescribed by the council, the same to be designated with clearly distinguishable markings or signs at both ends of the time-limited area and at reasonable intervals between the beginning and ending of such time-limited area, indicating the time allowed for parking in such area.
(c) 
Any time limit on parking established under this section shall apply on such days and between such hours as prescribed by the council.
(d) 
Schedule G, designating streets on which parking is prohibited or limited, is set out in article VI of this chapter.
(e) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in his name or owned or operated by him or in his possession or under his control to be or remain in any space or area in which parking is prohibited or in a time-limited parking area for a longer period of time than that designated by the markings on the street or by signs clearly visible.
(f) 
The city is vested with the exclusive power to control the public streets and rights-of-way in the city. By permission of the city, the Alamo Heights Independent School District is authorized to use the 100 block of East Fair Oaks Place, north and south sides, 100 block of East Castano Avenue, north and south sides, and 100 block of Vanderhoeven Drive, west side, for school parking on school days from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. The Alamo Heights Independent School District shall submit plans to the city planning and development services department for approval to mark, stripe, number and sign parking spaces on the aforementioned public streets and right-of-ways, to include any changes to previously approved plans. Such plans shall not include painting any curb or street with red paint to signify a "no parking" zone. Additionally, proposed plans may not conflict with any city code or state law regulating parking restrictions pertaining to fire lanes, fire hydrant access, crosswalks, approaches to intersections, traffic-control signs or signals, and restricted parking zones placed by the city and/or designated by red curbs or pavement markings. The city shall assume no responsibility for enforcing school parking regulations promulgated by the Alamo Heights Independent School District in areas authorized by this section. The use of the public streets for school parking may be terminated by the city at any time.
(g) 
The provisions set forth in subsection (f) shall apply to all streets and rights-of-way within established school zones around the Cambridge Elementary School.
(1965 Code, secs. 20-121, 20-122; Ordinance 1416 adopted 8/24/1998; Ordinance 1937 adopted 8/13/2012)
(a) 
No person shall stand or park a vehicle in a roadway other than parallel with the edge of the roadway headed in the direction of lawful traffic movement and with the right-hand wheels of the vehicle within eighteen (18) inches of the curb or edge of the roadway, except as otherwise provided in this section. On one-way streets, vehicles may be parked on the left side of the street, with the left-hand wheels within eighteen (18) inches of the curb or edge of the roadway, unless signs prohibit such parking.
(b) 
The traffic engineer, with approval of the city council, shall determine upon which streets angle parking shall be permitted and shall mark or sign such streets, but such angle parking shall not be indicated upon any federal-aid or state highway within this city unless the state highway engineer has determined that the roadway is of sufficient width to permit angle parking without interfering with the free movement of traffic.
(c) 
Angle parking shall not be indicated or permitted at any place where passing traffic would thereby be caused or required to drive upon the left side of the street or upon any railway tracks.
(d) 
Upon those streets which have been signed or marked for angle parking, no person shall park or stand a vehicle other than at the angle to the curb or edge of the roadway indicated by such signs or markings. Whenever parking spaces are marked by lines on the pavement, whether for parallel or angle parking, a vehicle must be parked entirely within the lines of the parking space.
(e) 
Where ninety-degree angle parking is permitted by ordinance, both front wheels must be within six (6) inches of the curb, or parking curb, or if there is no curb the two (2) front wheels shall be parallel to the curbline and pulled as far past it as is practicable, so as to obstruct the street as little as possible.
(f) 
Where sixty-degree angle parking is permitted by ordinance, the right front wheel must be within six (6) inches of the street curb, or where the curb has been set back, within six (6) inches of the parking curb, and the right-hand side of the vehicle must be at an angle of sixty (60) degrees from the curb or curbline.
(g) 
Where forty-five-degree angle parking is permitted by ordinance, the right front wheel must be within six (6) inches of the parking curb, or where a saw-tooth parking curb has been installed, both front wheels shall be within six (6) inches of the parking curb, and the right-hand side of the vehicle shall be at an angle of forty-five (45) degrees from the street curb or curbline.
(h) 
Schedule H, designating those areas in which angle parking is permitted, is set out in article VI of this chapter.
(1965 Code, sec. 20-123)
Overnight parking for storage on any paved street is hereby prohibited. "Overnight parking for storage" is hereby defined as the parking or storing of cars, trucks, tractors or other vehicles on paved streets during the hours from 2:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m., except temporarily disabled vehicles which are protected by flares or other approved signal devices. For the purpose of this section, a "vehicle" includes a device in or by which a person or property may be transported or drawn on a public highway.
(1965 Code, sec. 20-124; Ordinance 1245 adopted 11/12/1990; Ordinance 2049 adopted 4/25/2016)
Any person owning or occupying premises who does not have facilities for parking passenger automobiles owned by persons occupying such premises may file a written application with the city council for special permission for a temporary permit to park passenger automobiles only on a city street. Such application shall be granted by the city council only upon its making the following findings:
(1) 
That the premises do not contain space adequate for parking passenger automobiles of the occupants of such premises off of the street;
(2) 
That it would be an undue hardship on the owners or occupants of the premises to provide off-street parking for passenger automobiles owned by the occupant. To determine an undue hardship the council shall be governed by the following standards:
a. 
The cost of providing off-street parking on the premises so owned or occupied;
b. 
The cost and availability for providing for such automobile or automobiles off-street parking on other premises and the proximity of other premises that might be available to such occupants for off-street parking.
(1965 Code, sec. 20-125)
Any person owning or occupying residential premises may obtain a temporary overnight parking permit for visitors or persons temporarily staying in such premises upon written application made and filed with the chief of police prior to the time such automobiles or other vehicles are parked on the street. Overnight parking permits are restricted to passenger cars, vans and light trucks having a manufacturer rated carrying capacity of one (1) ton or less. No such permit shall exceed thirty (30) days, and no more than three (3) such permits may be issued for any premises during any calendar year by the chief of police. To be effective, any such permit shall be in writing and displayed on the automobile at all times when parked on the streets of the city between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. Persons qualifying under this section and only needing a short-term permit not exceeding three (3) days may be issued a permit by contacting the police administrative office or the police/fire dispatch center in person or by telephone. Such permission shall be granted by the chief of police or his representative upon a showing of the following:
(1) 
That the premises in question do not have adequate space for the parking of automobiles of persons temporarily visiting or occupying such premises.
(2) 
That the person making such application cannot without undue hardship obtain off-street parking facilities on a temporary basis for such vehicles within the vicinity of such property. In determining whether or not a hardship exists the chief of police shall be governed by the standards set out in section 18-102.
(1965 Code, sec. 20-126; Ordinance 1245 adopted 11/12/1990; Ordinance 2049 adopted 4/25/2016)
(a) 
The traffic engineer is hereby authorized, subject to approval by the city council, to determine the location of passenger and freight curb loading zones and shall place and maintain appropriate signs indicating the same and stating the hours during which the provisions of this section are applicable, where, in his opinion, the dimensions of the streets and sidewalks, the flow of traffic and the use of property abutting the streets are such that he finds it to be necessary for the free flow and expeditious handling of traffic and the safety of persons and property.
(b) 
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle for any purpose or period of time other than for the expeditious loading or unloading of passengers in any place marked as a passenger curb loading zone during hours when the regulations applicable to such curb loading zones are effective, and then only for a period not to exceed three (3) minutes.
(c) 
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle for any purpose or length of time other than for the expeditious unloading and delivery or pick-up and loading of materials in any place marked as a freight curb loading zone during hours when the provisions applicable to such zones are in effect. In no case shall the stop for loading and unloading of materials exceed thirty (30) minutes.
(d) 
Loading zones shall be designated by an orange painted curb.
(e) 
Schedule I, setting out loading zones within the city, appears in article VI of this chapter.
(1965 Code, sec. 20-130)
(a) 
The traffic engineer is hereby authorized, subject to approval by the city council, to establish bus stops and taxicab stands on such public streets in such places and in such number as he shall determine to be of the greatest benefit and convenience to the public, and every such bus stop and taxicab stand shall be designated by appropriate signs.
(b) 
The driver of a bus or taxicab shall not park upon any street in any business district at any time other than at a bus stop or taxicab stand, respectively, except that this provision shall not prevent the driver of any such vehicle from temporarily stopping in accordance with other stopping or parking regulations at any place for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading passengers.
(c) 
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle other than a bus in a bus stop, or other than a taxicab in a taxicab stand, when any such stop or stand has been officially designated and appropriately signed, except that the driver of a passenger vehicle may temporarily stop therein for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading passengers when such stopping does not interfere with any bus or taxicab waiting to enter or about to enter such zone.
(1965 Code, sec. 20-131)
In any prosecution charging a violation of any law or regulation governing the standing or parking of a vehicle, proof that the particular vehicle described in the complaint was parked in violation of any such law or regulation, together with proof that the defendant named in the complaint was, at the time of such parking, the registered owner of such vehicle, shall constitute in evidence a prima facie presumption that the registered owner of such vehicle was the person who parked or placed such vehicle at the point where, and for the time during which, such violation occurred.
(1965 Code, sec. 20-132)
(a) 
The locations listed in section 18-152, Schedule G, Parking Prohibited or Limited on Certain Streets, Handicapped Parking Locations, are hereby designated as parking spaces available only to vehicles used by or for the transportation of disabled individuals, as defined in V.T.C.A., Transportation Code section 681.001, when such vehicles display a valid disabled parking placard or special license plates provided by the state department of highways and public transportation.
(b) 
Whenever any vehicle is in a parking space reserved for disabled individuals, and such vehicle does not have a valid disabled parking placard or special license plates placed or displayed as provided by V.T.C.A., Transportation Code section 681.006, such facts shall be prima facie evidence that the vehicle has been parked illegally, and that the registered owner of such vehicle did knowingly cause, allow, permit or suffer such vehicle to be parked in such location.
(1965 Code, sec. 20-133; Ordinance 1231 adopted 5/21/1990; Ordinance adopting 2024 Code)
A school crossing guard program is hereby established to be funded:
(1) 
From the court costs added to school crossing zone offenses by state law for the funding of school crossing guard programs; and
(2) 
A special five-dollar court cost to be added to parking violations.
The school crossing guard program shall be administered by the chief of police. The chief of police is authorized to enter into contractual arrangements with schools within the city for the implementation of the school crossing guard program, provided that such schools shall indemnify and hold harmless the city against any claims arising from the furnishing of such services by such schools. An administrative cost of ten (10) percent of funds disbursed to such schools shall be retained by the city for the cost of administering the school crossing guard program. The chief of police shall monitor the use of school crossing guard program funds by such schools, which contract for such services shall assure that such funds are used only in the city and shall assure that such funds are properly expended for child safety.
(Ordinance 1268 adopted 10/14/1991)
The traffic engineer, with advice and consent of the chief of police, shall be authorized to erect or install temporary "No Parking" signs or other devices in instances where parking on the street would temporarily cause undue hardship or danger to the public or abutting property owners' reasonable use of the street or their driveways or parking pads.
Such temporary signs or devices shall be installed as soon as possible after the city becomes aware of the hardship or danger, and a determination has been made for the need for such signs or devices. Such signs or devices shall be removed as soon as possible after the need for such signs or devices is no longer present, in the opinion of the traffic engineer and with the advice and consent of the chief of police.
(Ordinance 1568 adopted 10/11/2004)