No person shall park any vehicle or cause, allow, permit, or suffer any vehicle registered in that person's name or controlled by that person to be parked, either attended or unattended, adjacent to any curb painted red or posted to prohibit stopping, standing, or parking, except that a bus may stop adjacent to any curb painted red or posted to prohibit stopping, standing, or parking if the curb is painted red or posted as a bus loading zone.
(Ord. 2713 § 1, 1988; Ord. 3518 § 1, 2001; Ord. 3858 § 1, 2007)
(A) 
Except as otherwise set forth in subsection (B) of this section, no person shall park any vehicle or cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in his or her name or controlled by him or her to be parked adjacent to a curb painted yellow, at any time between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day, except Sunday, for any purpose other than the commercial loading or unloading of freight, and then only for the time actually necessary for the same, but not to exceed in any event a maximum period of 24 consecutive minutes. For purposes of this section, commercial loading or unloading is allowed for those deliveries made by commercially registered and licensed vehicles, the United States Postal Service, vehicles with the business name permanently displayed on the sides of the vehicle, in, at a minimum, two-inch lettering, or vehicles that display an authorized commercial loading zone permit. The commercial loading zone permit requirements and fee shall be established by resolution.
(B) 
Yellow zones may be combined with time-limited parking or metered parking zones if specifically indicated on adjacent parking meters or signs. Any combined yellow zone shall be properly marked and signed to indicate the specific hours of operation for commercial loading and unloading, as well as the permissible hours of any time-limited or metered parking for noncommercial vehicle parking. In all combined yellow zones where commercial and noncommercial vehicles share the same parking space, but are separated by the hours of operation, the City Parking Manager shall specify the time-limited or metered parking hours consistent with the direction of Section 11-24.020 of this chapter. The provisions of this section shall be effective when authorized signs are in place giving notice of the specific hours of operation for commercial loading and noncommercial parking within a yellow zone.
(Ord. 2713 § 1, 1988; Ord. 3823 § 1, 2007; Ord. 3959 § 1, 2010)
No person shall park any vehicle or cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in his or her name or controlled by him or her to be parked adjacent to a curb painted white except for the purpose of loading or unloading passengers, and then only for the time actually necessary for the same, but not to exceed in any event five consecutive minutes.
(Ord. 2713 § 1, 1988)
No person shall park any vehicle or cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in that person's name or controlled by that person to be parked on a block in excess of the maximum length of time indicated on signs posted on the block.
(Ord. 2713 § 1, 1988; Ord. 3518 § 2, 2001)
No person shall park any vehicle or cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in his or her name or controlled by him or her to be parked adjacent to a curb painted blue at any time unless said vehicle displays either one of the distinguishing license plates issued to disabled persons pursuant to Section 22511.5 of the California Vehicle Code or to disabled veterans, as specified in Section 9105 of the California Vehicle Code.
(Ord. 2713 § 1, 1988)
No person shall park any vehicle, or cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in his or her name or operated or controlled by him or her to be parked in such a position that it will not be entirely within a parking space, where such is designated by distinctive colored pavement or by lines or markings painted upon the curb or street adjacent thereto, or within a public off-street parking facility.
(Ord. 2713 § 1, 1988)
No person shall cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in his or her name or operated or controlled by him or her to be parked upon any street or any public or private off-street parking facility with a perceptible grade without setting the brakes thereon and blocking the wheels of said vehicle by turning them against the curb or by other means.
(Ord. 2713 § 1, 1988)
No person shall cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in his or her name or operated or controlled by him or her to be parked in any alley for any purpose other than loading or unloading freight from adjacent property.
(Ord. 2713 § 1, 1988)
Subject to the further restrictions of Section 11-20.160, no person shall park or cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in his or her name or operated or controlled by him or her to be parked on any street or alley for more than a period of 72 consecutive hours, and any such vehicle so parked may be removed by the Police or Fire Departments in accordance with Sections 22651 and 22669 of the Vehicle Code of the State of California.
(Ord. 2713 § 1, 1988; Ord. 3238 § 23, 1996)
No person shall cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in his or her name or operated or controlled by him or her to be parked in the central business district between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. of any day for a period of longer than 30 minutes.
(Ord. 2713 § 1, 1988)
No person shall cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle of more than two-ton capacity which is registered in that person's name or which is operated or controlled by that person to be parked on any public street, thoroughfare, sidewalk or other public way more than five consecutive hours, except:
(A) 
While loading or unloading property, and time in addition to such five-hour period as is necessary to complete such work;
(B) 
When such vehicle is parked in connection with, and in aid of, the performance of a service to or on a property in the block in which such vehicle is parked, and time in addition to such five-hour period is necessary to complete such service.
(Ord. 2713 § 1, 1988)
No person shall park any vehicles used or intended to be used in the transportation of property for hire upon any street while waiting patronage for such vehicle without first obtaining a permit which designates the specific location that such vehicle may stand. Such permit may be revoked at any time by the City Council.
(Ord. 2713 § 1, 1988)
No person shall park or leave standing a vehicle which is six feet or more in height, including any load thereon, within 100 feet of any intersection, as measured from intersecting curb lines or approximate edge lines of pavement.
(Ord. 2713 § 1, 1988)
Whenever the City Parking Manager determines that traffic congestion may result from public or private events or activities, the City Parking Manager (or designee) may place signs restricting or prohibiting the operation, parking, or standing of vehicles on such streets and alleys.
(Ord. 2713 § 1, 1988; Ord. 2933 § 1, 1992; Ord. 2025-020, 12/16/2025)
When any barrier or sign has been placed, giving warning not to drive over or across newly laid pavement or freshly painted marking in any street, or stating that the street or portion thereof is closed, or controlling the entrance to, the exit from, or the parking within, or on, any public off-street facility or place, no person shall ride or drive any animal or vehicle contrary thereto.
(Ord. 2713 § 1, 1988)
No person shall park any vehicle or cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in that person's name or controlled by that person to be parked on any bridge unless the bridge is specifically signed to allow parking. Pursuant to Section 22500(k) of the California Vehicle Code, the City Traffic Engineer shall be responsible for the designation and signing of areas where parking on bridges is allowed. The provisions of this section shall be effective when authorized signs are in place giving notice of the specific hours or conditions under which parking is allowed.
(Ord. 3858 § 2, 2007; Ord. 2025-020, 12/16/2025)