A. 
The provisions of this chapter prohibiting the stopping, standing or parking of a vehicle shall apply at all times or at those times herein specified, except when it is necessary to stop a vehicle to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the direction of a police officer or official traffic control device.
B. 
The provisions of this chapter imposing a time limit on standing or parking shall not relieve any person from the duty to observe other and more restrictive provisions of the vehicle code or an ordinance of this city prohibiting or limiting the standing or parking of vehicles in specified places or at specified times.
(Ord. 212 § 2, 2001)
A. 
The city engineer is hereby authorized to prohibit stopping, standing or parking and to place signs or curb markings at any of the following places when such prohibition, as indicated by a traffic engineering investigation, will alleviate dangerous or hazardous traffic conditions, facilitate the full use of the roadway, or serve the convenience of the public:
1. 
At any place within one hundred (100) feet of the intersection of two or more highways.
2. 
Adjacent to either side of a crosswalk or driveway entrance for a distance not to exceed twenty (20) feet from either side of such crosswalk or driveway.
3. 
Adjacent to any fire hydrant when it has been determined that stopping, standing or parking of any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, would present some special hazard or would prevent ready access to the fire hydrant.
4. 
At any place in connection with a street or highway vehicular parking layout or plan.
B. 
When the city engineer, upon the basis of a traffic engineering investigation, finds that the conditions because of which stopping, standing or parking was prohibited as authorized in subsection A no longer exist, he or she shall remove such signs and such curb markings from such portion of such street or highway.
(Ord. 212 § 2, 2001)
No person shall park any vehicle within an alley in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave available less than ten feet of the width of the roadway for the free movement of vehicular traffic and no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle within an alley in such position as to block the driveway entrance to any abutting property.
The city engineer is authorized by the city council to place appropriate signs or markings indicating no parking within any alley or a portion thereof.
Per Section 21102.1 of the California Vehicle Code, delivery of freight by commercial vehicles will not be prohibited and operation of emergency vehicles will not be adversely affected in alleys.
(Ord. 331 § 1, 2014)
A. 
Basis for regulation. Whenever the city council determines, upon the basis of a traffic engineering investigation, that it is necessary to prohibit stopping, standing or parking of vehicles on certain highways or portion thereof at all or certain hours of the day in order to facilitate the movement of traffic or to eliminate hazardous conditions, the city council shall by resolution direct the city engineer to place appropriate signs or curb markings on such highways or portions thereof.
B. 
Basis for lifting parking regulations. Whenever the city council, upon the basis of a traffic engineering investigation, finds that the conditions because of which it was necessary to prohibit the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles at all or certain hours of the day as provided in subsection A no longer exist, the city council shall by resolution direct the city engineer to remove such signs and curb markings from such highways or portion thereof.
C. 
Temporary no parking. Whenever the city engineer determines that traffic congestion or traffic hazard of an emergency nature is likely to result form the operation, stopping, standing or parking of vehicles during the holding of public or private assemblages, gatherings, or functions, or during the construction, alteration, repair or improvement of any highway, or for any other reason, he or she may place or cause to be placed, temporary signs prohibiting the operation, stopping, standing or parking of vehicles during the existence of such emergency.
D. 
Parking parallel with curb—Angle parking.
1. 
No person shall stand or park a vehicle in a roadway or street other than parallel with the edge of the roadway headed in the direction of traffic and with the right-hand wheels of the vehicle within eighteen (18) inches of the curb line or edge of the roadway, except that on one-way streets, vehicles may be stopped or parked facing in the same direction as traffic movement, adjacent to the left-hand side of the roadway, but the left-hand wheels of vehicles so stopped or parked must be within eighteen (18) inches of the curb line or edge of roadway. All parking shall be parallel, except upon those streets that have been marked or signed by the city engineer for angle parking upon which streets vehicles shall be parked at the angle to the curb indicated by such marks or signs and not otherwise.
2. 
No person shall disobey instructions of any official traffic sign requiring the manner in which vehicles must be parked, including signs regarding angle parking.
(Ord. 212 § 2, 2001; Ord. 317 § 1, 2012)
A. 
No person who owns or has possession, custody or control of any vehicle(s) shall park such vehicle(s) upon any street or alley for more than a consecutive period of seventy-two (72) hours.
B. 
In the event a vehicle is parked or left standing upon a street in excess of a consecutive period of seventy-two (72) hours, the police or any member of the highway patrol of the state of California may remove said vehicle from the street in the manner and subject to the requirements of the vehicle code.
(Ord. 212 § 2, 2001)
No person shall park a vehicle upon any highway or right-of-way for the principal purpose of:
A. 
Washing, greasing, or repairing such vehicle except repairs necessitated by an emergency.
B. 
Using such vehicle to support a sign.
C. 
Vending, except adjacent to the premises of the purchaser when taking orders or delivering any commodity.
(Ord. 212 § 2, 2001)