The term "parking place," as used in this article, shall include 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.
(Ord. 859 § 260; Formerly § 16-85)
There is hereby vested in the City Council the powers 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.
(Ord. 859 § 261; Formerly § 16-86)
The whole or any portion of the City may be formed into an improvement 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 districts, levying such assessments and issuing such bonds shall be had as provided in this title.
(Ord. 859 § 262; Formerly § 16-87)
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 therein or improvement thereon. All such property shall be acquired and held in the name of the City.
(Ord. 859 § 263; Formerly § 16-88)
City lands or property may be utilized for parking places. In such event, the resolution of intention shall describe the same and state the amount and manner of payment of compensation. In lieu thereof, the City Council may provide in such resolution that the compensation for such 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.
(Ord. 859 § 264; Formerly § 16-89)
The City 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 such 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 SCCC § 16.10.260 shall apply.
(Ord. 859 § 265; Formerly § 16-90)
When in the opinion of the City Council the public interest and economy will be served thereby, the City Council may lease one or more parking places and facilities. In so doing, the City Council may restrict or partially restrict their use to owners and tenants of real property in the district and classes of persons designated by such owners or tenants.
(Ord. 859 § 266; Formerly § 16-91)
Surplus space may be rented or devoted to commercial uses other than for the parking of automobiles when in the City 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 such projects as the City Council shall determine.
(Ord. 859 § 267; Formerly § 16-92)
The City Council may fix rentals, fees or other charges, for the properties, works and facilities of any parking place provided by this article. In so doing, the City Council may establish rates, charges or rentals for the owners and tenants of such properties and classes of persons designated by the owners or tenants which differ from and are less than the rates, charges and rentals charged other persons.
(Ord. 859 § 268; Formerly § 16-93)
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 replacements, improvements and extensions to any parking place necessary or convenient for the proper operation thereof.
(Ord. 859 § 269; Formerly § 16-94)
An annual assessment may be levied upon the real property within the district established therefor for the purpose of maintaining and operating parking places. Such assessment shall be in an amount clearly sufficient to pay 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 land as shown on the last equalized and secured utility tax rolls upon which City taxes are collected.
(Ord. 859 § 270; Formerly § 16-95)
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 shall have been preliminarily approved by the City Council, the Clerk shall give notice to interested persons that such report has been filed in his/her office and is open to inspection and of a time and place when such report will be heard by the City 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 ten days before the day set for hearing.
(Ord. 859 § 271; Formerly § 16-96)
The report provided in SCCC § 16.10.390 shall be fully heard and may be altered, amended or supplemented by the City 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 City Council. Such levy shall become and remain a lien on the property described therein from the date it is confirmed until paid.
(Ord. 859 § 272; Formerly § 16-97)
The officer who collects the assessments shall compute and extend the amounts thereof in the next tax rolls on which City taxes are collected 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 in the same manner as provided for City taxes, except that the period of redemption shall be one year instead of five years.
(Ord. 859 § 273; Formerly § 16-98)
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.
The City Council may, at any time, make such 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.
(Ord. 859 §§ 274, 275; Formerly § 16-99)
The City Council may provide all proper and usual covenants for the proper security and payment of the principal and interest of the bonds.
(Ord. 859 § 276; Formerly § 16-100)
The boundaries of the parking district may be enlarged from time to time. The territory to be annexed shall be set forth in a resolution of intention to be adopted by the City Council, which shall give notice that such matter and all persons interested will be heard by the City Council at a time to be stated therein, at the regular meeting place of the City Council.
Such resolution shall be published twice in a newspaper of general circulation published in the City, the first of which shall be at least ten days before the date fixed for hearing.
(Ord. 859 §§ 277, 278; Formerly § 16-101)
The hearing mentioned in the preceding section may be adjourned from time to time. At the hearing the City Council shall have power to determine whether or not the entire territory or only a portion thereof to be annexed will be benefited by being so annexed.
The City Council shall by resolution order the annexation of such territory, defining its boundaries therein. Its decision thereon shall be final and conclusive.
Thereafter the property annexed shall be subject to special levies for maintenance, operation and for any ad valorem bonds issued for the acquisition of construction of such improvements.
(Ord. 859 §§ 279 – 281; Formerly § 16-102)