A.
The city council may designate by resolution certain residential streets, or portions thereof, as permit parking zones for the benefit of residents adjacent thereto, in which zones vehicles displaying a permit or other authorized indicia may be exempt from parking prohibitions or restrictions otherwise posted, marked or noticed.
B.
Each permit parking zone shall be designated only upon findings that such zone is required:
1.
To provide reasonable available and convenient parking for the benefit of the adjacent residents;
2.
To encourage the use of car pooling;
3.
To enhance or protect the quality of life in the area of the proposed zone threatened by litter, noise, traffic hazards, environmental pollution or devaluation of real property resulting from nonresident vehicular traffic and parking; and
4.
To encourage nonresident vehicles to park in designated off-street parking facilities.
C.
No preferential parking ordinance shall apply until signs or markings giving adequate notice thereof have been placed.
D.
The findings referred to in subsection B of this section shall be based upon the following criteria established to the satisfaction of the city council:
1.
That nonresident vehicles (defined as those vehicles operated by persons whose destinations are to nonresidential locations) do or may substantially and regularly interfere with the use of the majority of available public street parking spaces by adjacent residents;
2.
That the interference by the nonresident vehicles referred to in subsection (D)(1) of this section occurs at regular and significant daily intervals;
3.
That the nonresident vehicles being driven or parked in the area of the proposed zone cause or are the source of unreasonable litter, noise, traffic hazards, environmental pollution, or devaluation of real property in the area of the proposed zone;
4.
That no unreasonable displacement of nonresident vehicles will result in surrounding residential areas;
5.
That a shortage of reasonably available and convenient residential-related parking spaces exists in the area of the proposed zone; and
6.
That no alternative solution is feasible or practical.
(Ord. 348 §§ 2, 3, 1986)