It shall be unlawful for the operator of a vehicle to stop such vehicle in any of the following places except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the direction of a law enforcement officer or traffic sign or signal:
(A) 
Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within twenty feet (20′) of a point on the curb immediately opposite the end of a safety zone;
(B) 
Within thirty feet (30′) of an intersecting roadway except buses at a designated stop.
Upon all streets within any business districts, the City Manager shall designate the provisions of subsections (A) and (B) of this Section by placing and maintaining red paint or other red material upon the entire curb surface within such area, omitting any crosswalk area, or by placing and maintaining appropriate signs directing that the stopping of vehicles is prohibited.
(A) 
It shall be unlawful for the operator of a vehicle to stop said vehicle for a period of time longer than is necessary for the loading or unloading of passengers or materials; provided, that the loading or unloading of passengers shall not consume more than three (3) minutes, nor the loading or unloading of materials more than twenty (20) minutes, in any of the following places:
(1) 
In any alley;
(2) 
In any “loading zone”;
(3) 
At any curb within fifty feet (50′) of the entrance to any police station;
(4) 
At any curb within fifteen feet (15′) of a fire hydrant;
(5) 
In any marked bus stop;
(6) 
In the travel way or traffic lane of any street.
(B) 
The City Manager shall determine the location of “loading zones” and shall mark by appropriate signs or as specifically required herein those places where standing for loading only is permitted under this Section, subject to the following requirements and limitations:
Bus stops shall be designated by appropriate signs at those places determined by the City Council by resolution, except that a bus stop shall not exceed fifty feet (50′) in length and shall not be placed adjacent to a safety zone;
Every loading zone, also that portion of every curb reserved for loading only by subsections (A)(3) and (4) of this Section, shall be designated by yellow paint or other yellow material upon the entire curb surface therein with the words “LOADING ONLY” in black letters thereon;
Within any business district, not more than one-half (1/2) of the total curb length in any one (1) block may be set apart as a loading zone.
It shall be unlawful for the operator of a vehicle to stop, park or leave standing said vehicle in front of a public or private driveway, whether attended or unattended, except that a bus engaged as a common carrier, school bus, or a taxicab may stop in front of a public or private driveway to load or unload passengers.
It shall be unlawful for any person to stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, on any portion of a sidewalk, or with the body of said vehicle extending over a portion of a sidewalk, except for (A) electric carts operated by physically disabled persons, (B) electric carts operated by persons fifty (50) years of age or older, or (C) while in the course of their employments electric carts operated by employees of the United States Postal Service, State and local government, utility companies, on public sidewalks. Disabled persons and persons fifty (50) years or age or older, in order to qualify for their exceptions hereunder, shall apply for and obtain from the City Manager a permit to operate on and over sidewalks, and an identification sticker. Such permits and stickers shall become void once and if the permit holder ceases to operate, own or lease the cart.
(A) 
Except as otherwise provided, every vehicle stopped or parked upon a roadway where there are adjacent curbs shall be stopped or parked with the right hand wheels of such vehicle parallel with and within eighteen inches (18″) of the right hand curb, except that motorcycles shall be parked with at least one (1) wheel or fender touching the right hand curb. Where no curbs or barriers bound any two (2) way roadway, right hand parallel parking is required unless otherwise indicated.
(B) 
Upon a one (1) way roadway, vehicles may be stopped or parked as provided in subsection (A) of this Section or with the left hand wheels parallel to and within eighteen inches (18″) of the left hand curb, except that motorcycles, if parked on the left hand side, shall have either one (1) wheel or fender touching such curb. Where no curbs or barriers bound any such one (1) way roadway, parallel parking on either side is required unless otherwise indicated. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply upon the roadways of a divided highway.
(C) 
In the event a highway includes two (2) or more separate roadways and traffic is restricted to one (1) direction upon any such roadway, no person shall stop or park a vehicle upon the left hand side of such one (1) way roadway unless signs are in place permitting such stopping or parking. The City Traffic Engineer is authorized to determine when stopping or parking may be permitted on the left hand side of any one (1) way roadway of a highway having two (2) or more separate roadways and shall erect signs giving notice thereof.
(D) 
The requirement of parallel parking shall not apply to commercial vehicles actually engaged in the process of loading or unloading of freight, goods, merchandise or passengers on, or from, such vehicle and while anything connected with such loading or unloading is being executed, in which case the vehicle may be backed to the curb; provided, however, that such vehicle shall not extend beyond the center of the street.
It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to park any vehicle upon any street in any business district from which said vehicle merchandise is being sold.
No person shall park a vehicle upon any street, municipal parking lot or City property for the principal purpose of doing any of the following acts:
(A) 
Displaying such vehicle for sale; or
(B) 
Greasing or repairing such vehicle, except repairs necessitated by an emergency; or
(C) 
Washing such vehicle, when such person is engaged in the business of washing vehicles. Nothing contained in this subsection shall prevent the owner or lawful possessor of a vehicle from having it washed on the street at his or her residence by a person employed by such owner.
No person shall abandon, park, store, leave, keep or maintain, or permit to be abandoned, parked, stored, left, kept or maintained, any boat upon any public or private property, except one (1) boat, thirty feet (30′) or less in length, may be parked, stored, left, kept or maintained in the rear or to the side of any residential unit, other than a duplex, apartment, motel or hotel, provided:
(A) 
If such boat does not have an enclosed cabin, it is located at least eighteen inches (18″) from any property line, at least three feet (3’) from any building used for human occupancy and at least three feet (3’) from any building attached to a building used for human occupancy; or
(B) 
If such boat has an enclosed cabin, it is located at least four feet (4′) from any property line, at least five feet (5′) from any building used for human occupancy and at least five feet (5′) from any building attached to a building used for human occupancy. This Section shall not be construed to prohibit parking, storing, leaving, keeping or maintaining of one (1) boat completely within any garage appurtenant to any residential unit, other than a duplex, apartment, motel or hotel, nor to prohibit the temporary parking, storing, leaving, keeping or maintaining, for a period not in excess of seven (7) days, any boat thirty feet (30′) or less in length in the driveway of any residential unit, other than a duplex, apartment, motel or hotel.
(A) 
No person shall park a motor vehicle upon any private property or upon property used for private parking purposes without the consent of the owner of such property, the person entitled to the possession thereof for the time being or the authorized agent of either; provided, that signs specifying conditions under which parking is permitted shall have been posted at all entrances to such property. Such signs shall be approved both as to wording and posting by the City Traffic Engineer.
(B) 
Any regularly employed and salaried officer of the City staff may issue a citation to the owner or driver of any motor vehicle that has been parked or left standing on any private property, driveway, private parking lot or property used for private parking purposes, in violation of this Section.
(A) 
Except as otherwise provided in this Chapter, no person shall park or stand any vehicle, wagon or pushcart from which goods, wares, merchandise, fruits, vegetables or foodstuffs are sold, displayed, solicited or offered for sale, bartered or exchanged, or any lunch wagon or eating car or vehicle, on any street, municipal parking lot or City property, except that such vehicles, wagons or pushcarts may park or stand only at the request of a bona fide purchaser for a period of time not exceeding ten (10) minutes at any one (1) place. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to persons delivering such articles upon order of or by agreement with a customer from a store or other fixed place of business or distribution.
(B) 
No person shall park or stand on any street any lunch wagon, eating cart, vehicle or pushcart from which tamales, peanuts, popcorn, candy or other articles of food are sold or offered for sale without first obtaining a written permit to do so from the City Manager or his or her delegate who shall designate the specific location in which such cart shall stand.
(A) 
Whenever the City Traffic Engineer shall determine that an emergency traffic congestion is likely to result from the holding of public or private assemblages, gatherings or functions or for other reasons, the City Traffic Engineer shall have power and authority to order temporary signs to be erected or posted indicating that the operation, parking or standing of vehicles is prohibited on such streets and alleys as the City Traffic Engineer shall direct during the time such temporary signs are in place. Such signs shall remain in place only during the existence of such emergency and the City Traffic Engineer shall cause such signs to be removed promptly thereafter.
(B) 
When signs authorized by the provisions of this Section are in place giving notice thereof, no person shall operate, park or stand any vehicle contrary to the directions and provisions of such signs.
The City Traffic Engineer is authorized to install and maintain parking space markings to indicate parking spaces adjacent to curbs where authorized parking is permitted. When such parking space markings are placed in the highway, subject to other and more restrictive limitations, no vehicle shall be stopped, left standing or parked other than within a single space unless the size or shape of such vehicle makes compliance impossible.
The City Traffic Engineer may appropriately sign or mark the following places and, when so signed or marked, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle within any of such places:
(A) 
Generally.
(1) 
Any place described and designated by resolution of the City Council upon recommendation of the City Traffic Engineer that parking in such location creates a traffic hazard;
(2) 
Any place within twenty feet (20′) of a point on the curb immediately opposite any midblock end of a safety zone;
(3) 
Any place within twenty feet (20′) of a crosswalk at an intersection in the central traffic district or in any business district; except that a bus may stop at a designated bus stop;
(4) 
Within twenty feet (20′) of the approach to any traffic signal, boulevard stop sign or official electric flashing device;
(5) 
Fifteen feet (15′) either side of any fire hydrant in the City.
(B) 
Named Streets.
Ahwahnee Street;
Church Street;
Donner Street;
First through Seventh Street;
Franklin Circle;
Franklin Street;
Jefferson Street;
Lang Court;
Lang Street;
Larios Drive;
Lausen Drive;
Marentis Court;
Mariposa Street;
Mission Street;
Mission Vineyard Road;
Monterey Street;
Muckelemi;
North Street;
1 Nyland Drive;
Pearce Lane;
Pearce Street;
Polk Street;
San Antonio Street;
San Jose Street;
1-400 San Juan Hollister Road;
Stephens Drive;
Tahualami Street;
The Alameda;
Thomas Lane;
Via Padre;
Via Serra;
Washington Street.
The City Traffic Engineer is authorized to place signs or markings indicating no parking upon any street when the width of the roadway does not exceed twenty feet (20′) or upon one (1) side of a street as indicated by such signs or markings when the width of the roadway does not exceed thirty feet (30′).
The City Traffic Engineer is authorized to determine and to mark loading zones and passenger loading zones as follows:
(A) 
At any place in the central traffic district or any business district;
(B) 
Elsewhere in front of the entrance to any place of business or in front of any hall or place used for the purpose of public assembly.
(C) 
In no event shall more than one-half (1/2) the total curb length in any block be reserved for loading zone purposes.
(A) 
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle in any alley except so as to block or obstruct less than one-half (1/2) the width of such alley.
(B) 
In the central traffic district, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle in any alley for any purpose other than the loading or unloading of persons, not to exceed three (3) minutes, or the loading or unloading of materials, not to exceed thirty (30) minutes, and then only so as to block or obstruct less than one-half (1/2) the width of such alley.