"Parking place" includes a parking lot, garage or subsurface structure, including the grading, paving, draining, sewering, lighting, or otherwise improving of such lot, and buildings and improvements necessary or convenient for the parking of motor vehicles, including parking meters and other equipment and facilities necessary or convenient therefor, together with provisions necessary or convenient for ingress to and egress from such places.
(Prior code App. A, §260)
There is vested in the Council the power to acquire, construct, reconstruct, install, extend, enlarge, repair, improve, maintain and operate public automobile parking places within the City; to acquire, by purchase, lease or eminent domain, the lands and public rights-of-way necessary or convenient therefor, to acquire and construct public improvements and equipment and facilities necessary or convenient therefor, and to levy assessments and issue bonds to pay for the cost of the whole or any part thereof and the expenses incidental thereto.
(Prior code App. A, § 261)
The whole, or any portion, of the City may be formed into an improvement and/or maintenance district, and assessments may be levied upon, and bonds may be issued against, the properties therein for the purpose of paying for the costs of acquiring, constructing, reconstructing, installing, extending, enlarging, repairing, improving, maintaining and operating parking places, and the expenses incidental thereto. Proceedings for the formation of such district or districts and the levying of such assessments shall be had as provided in Article IV of Chapter 4-12. Proceedings for issuing such bonds shall be as provided in Chapter 4-20.
(Prior code App. A, § 262)
(A) 
If, in the judgment of the Council, varying benefits will be derived by the different parcels of real property lying within the assessment district, the district may be divided into zones according to benefits.
(B) 
Number. The district may be divided into as many zones, up to the total number of parcels of land in the district as may be deemed proper, and each zone shall be composed of and include all of the lands within the district which will be benefited in like measure.
(C) 
Percentage. The Council shall also determine the percentage of the sum to be raised each year by the levy and collection of the ad valorem assessments in the district for the payments of the principal and interest of the bonds, or other method or apportionment, which will be raised from the lands in each zone.
(D) 
Resolution of Intention. When the district is divided into zones, the resolution of intention shall so state, giving the percentages or other method of apportionment to be used to determine the amounts to be raised from the lands in each zone.
(E) 
Designation. Each zone shall be designated by a different letter or number and shall be plainly shown on the map or plat of the assessment district filed in the office of the City Clerk and referred to in the resolution of intention, either by separate boundaries, coloring or other convenient and graphic method, so that all persons interested may with accuracy ascertain within which zone any parcel of land is located.
(F) 
Plat. It shall be sufficient, in all cases where the assessment district is to be divided into zones according to benefits, if the resolution of intention states the fact and refers to the plat or map for the boundaries and all details concerning the zones.
(Prior code App. A, § 262.1)
The City may purchase, lease, obtain option upon, acquire by gift, grant, bequest, devise eminent domain, or otherwise, and hold, sell, lease, exchange, transfer, assign, or otherwise dispose of, any real or personal property within the City, or any interest in, or improvement on, such property. All property shall be acquired and held in the name of the City.
(Prior code App. A, § 263)
City lands or property may be acquired. In such event the resolution of intention shall describe and state the amount and manner of payment of the compensation. In lieu thereof, the Council may provide in said resolution that the compensation for said property shall be an amount to be fixed by the decision of two or three disinterested competent appraisers to be appointed by the City Council.
(Prior code App. A, § 264)
The Council may sell any property acquired for parking places which is not needed therefor. Any money received from such sale may be used for the acquisition, construction or improving of other parking places in said district. It may also be applied as a credit on any assessments levied for the acquisition of such property, in which case the provisions of Section 16 of the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913 shall apply.
(Prior code App. A, § 265)
Surplus space may be rented or devoted to commercial uses other than for the parking of automobiles when in the Council's judgment it is necessary or convenient to conduct or permit such use in order to utilize properly the property as a parking space. Rentals received for such purposes shall be deposited in the improvement fund or in the operating fund or in the bond interest and redemption fund for said project as the Council determines.
(Prior code App. A, § 266)
Such parking places may be maintained and operated, and all or any costs and expenses thereof, including rent, repairs, replacement, fuel, power, electrical current, care, supervision and any other items necessary for the proper maintenance and operation thereof may be expended for that purpose. Included in such costs may be the cost of replacement, improvements and extensions to any parking place necessary or convenient for the proper operation thereof.
(Prior code App. A, § 267)
An annual assessment may be levied upon the real property within the district established therefor for the purpose of maintaining and operating such parking places. Such assessments shall be in an amount clearly sufficient to pay any and all costs and expenses of maintaining and operating such parking places then due or thereafter to accrue before the proceeds of another levy shall be available therefor. Such levy shall be apportioned among the properties within such district on the basis of the ad valorem value of such real property as shown on the last equalized tax roll for City taxes.
(Prior code App. A, § 268)
As an alternative to Section 4-16.100, the annual assessment tax for the costs of administration, maintenance, operation and improvement of the parking places, a formula or formulae therefor may be established, levied and collected in the manner provided in Sections 4-36.325 through 4-36.435.
(Prior code App. A, § 268a)
When any part of the operative cost is to be paid by a special levy, the City Manager shall annually file with the City Clerk a written report stating in reasonable detail the estimated cost of maintenance and operation for which an assessment is to be levied in that year, including the cost of replacements, improvements and extensions to any parking place. It shall also state the rate of the levy to be made therefor. When such report has been preliminarily approved by the Council, the Clerk shall give notice to interested persons that such report has been filed in his office and open to inspection, and of a time and place when such report will be heard by the Council and an assessment ordered. Such notice may be by publication in a newspaper published in the City, or by mail to the last assessees of the property at their addresses appearing in the last City tax roll, or as known to the Clerk, at least 10 days before the day set for hearing.
(Prior code App. A, § 269)
The report shall be fully heard, and may be altered, amended or supplemented by the Council. When all objections have been heard and action taken with reference thereto, by their having been overruled or otherwise, such report shall be confirmed by resolution of the Council. Such levy shall become and remain a lien on the property described therein from the date it is confirmed until paid. The City Clerk and ex-officio Tax Collector shall compute and extend the amounts thereof in the next City tax roll, and it shall be collected in the same manner, and be subject to the same penalties, costs and interest, and may be redeemed, and the property sold for nonpayment thereof; and title shall pass to the purchaser, as provided for City taxes, except that the period of redemption shall be one year instead of five.
(Prior code App. A, § 270)
The City may advance funds for the acquisition, construction or improving of such parking places, or for the maintenance and operation thereof, and reimburse itself from the proceeds of any assessment subsequently levied for that purpose. It may also make contributions thereto from available funds.
(Prior code App. A, § 271)
The Council may, at any time, make such pledge or pledges as it shall determine, for the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds, or for the maintenance and operation of the facilities acquired or to be acquired therewith, or for adequate reserves from the income and revenue of on and off-street parking facilities.
(Prior code App. A, § 272)
The boundaries of such district may be altered from time to time by the inclusion of territory in or exclusion of territory from the district. The territory shall be set forth in a resolution of intention to be adopted by the Council, which shall give notice that the matter, and all persons interested will be heard by the Council at a time to be stated therein, at the regular meeting place of the Council. Such resolution shall be published twice in a newspaper of general circulation published in the City and a copy thereof shall be posted on a bulletin board in or adjacent to the City Hall; the posting and first publication of which shall be at least 10 days before the date fixed for hearing. The hearing may be adjourned from time to time. At the hearing, the Council shall have the power to determine whether or not the entire territory, or only a portion thereof will be benefited thereby. The Council shall, by resolution, order the inclusion or exclusion of such territory, defining or otherwise identifying its boundaries therein. Its decision thereon shall be final and conclusive. Thereafter, the property included shall be subject to special levies for maintenance and operation and for any ad valorem bonds issued for the acquisition or construction of any improvements and the property excluded shall no longer be subject to any such special levies. No inhabitant, property owner, taxpayer, consumer or user within the territory excluded from the district shall be entitled to any part of the funds (including cash-on-hand and moneys due but uncollected) collected prior to the effective date of the exclusion of any property, real or personal, of the district.
(Prior code App. A, § 273; Ord. 2418 §1, 1984)
The supplemental remedy provisions of Part 13 (commencing at Section 8800) of Division 10 of the Streets and Highways Code shall apply. This section is adopted pursuant to Section 43240 of the Government Code.
(Prior code App. A, § 274)