The Township Council may, in compliance with this article, designate,
repeal or revise residential parking districts, and it may establish
parking restrictions, i.e., days and hours, and provide exemptions
for each district. Residential parking districts shall not be designated
in a nonresidential zone as ordained by the Township of Bristol’s
Zoning Ordinance. The process of designating, revising or repealing any
residential parking district could begin either by Council’s
initiative or upon submission of a petition to Council from residents
of the district.
A residential area shall be deemed impacted and thereby eligible
for residential parking district designation, provided that the following
criteria are satisfied:
A. The area
must be zoned residential.
B. During
the proposed hours of restricted parking, except any holidays proposed
for exemption, the number of vehicles of nonresidents parked legally
or illegally on a street in the district is equal to 30% or more of
the legal on-street parking capacity of the street. The percentage
of nonresident parking shall be determined by a survey conducted by
the Traffic Safety Director of the Police Department of the Township
of Bristol within the hours of restricted parking. For purposes of
this evaluation, a legal parking space shall be 22 linear feet.
The Township Council shall hold a public hearing on any proposed
designation of, revision to or repeal of a residential parking district.
The public hearing shall be held only after the Managing Director
has compiled data to determine if the area satisfies the criteria
for designation and the proposed ordinance and public hearings have
been duly advertised.
Within 65 days following the public hearing, the Township Council
shall take final action on the proposed ordinance.
Except for motor vehicles displaying a valid permit for the
proper residential parking district, it shall be unlawful for any
person to park any motor vehicle or allow any motor vehicle to be
parked in a residential parking district for more than the time allowed
by the parking restrictions established for that district. The parking
restrictions for each residential parking district shall be established
by ordinance of the Township Council at the time each respective district
is created. Residential parking permit holders must comply with all
other parking regulations in effect at the time the district is designated
or as may be amended by the Township Council.
A residential parking district permit shall be issued to any
vehicle of a resident of a residential parking district for the district
in which the person resides. In addition to the residential parking
district permit, one representative of each dwelling unit in a residential
parking district who shall make application therefor shall receive
two short-term visitor’s passes. For the purposes of this section,
a "resident" is any person who lives or resides in a structure approved
for residential occupancy and who is the owner of or a tenant in the
structure or who can demonstrate some other indication of exclusive
right of occupancy.
A. An application
for a residential parking district permit shall be made by a resident
of a district to the Department of Licenses, Zoning and Inspections
on forms provided by the Department of Licenses, Zoning and Inspections.
The application for a permit shall contain information to verify that
the applicant is a bona fide resident of the district for which application
has been made and has legal title to or the right to possession of
the motor vehicle to be permitted. The information shall include,
but not be limited to, the following:
(1) The
applicant’s name, address, operator’s permit number and
date of issuance.
(2) The
vehicle owner’s name, address, operator’s permit number
and date of issuance.
(3) The
make, model, color, state of registration and license number of the
vehicle to be registered.
B. A parking
permit may not be issued for any motor vehicle for which one or more
unpaid citations have been issued by the Township for parking violations.
The Department of Licenses, Zoning and Inspections shall issue the
parking permit upon finding that the applicant meets the requirements
specified in this section and has paid the required fee.
The annual permit fee for a residential parking district shall
be established by resolution of Township Council; the fee shall be
payable at the time the application is submitted. The permit term
for each residential parking district shall be determined at the time
the district is designated. Residential parking permits may be renewed
by qualified residents upon the payment of the annual fee on or before
the anniversary date of the term. In order to renew the permit, residents
must present their short-term visitor’s passes. The fee shall
be prorated; after the midpoint of the permit term, residents shall
pay 1/2 of the established fee. No portion of any fee is refundable.
The permit shall be affixed to a window on the driver’s
side of the vehicle. Short-term visitor’s passes shall be displayed
on the dash of the vehicle.
A permit expires and is void when the owner or user of a permitted
vehicle no longer resides within the district, as defined in this
section. A resident shall remove a permit sticker from any permitted
motor vehicle upon its expiration or upon moving outside of the district.
Furthermore, a resident shall return short-term visitor’s passes
to the Department of Licenses, Zoning and Inspections. A permit shall
be transferred from one vehicle to another during the permit period
solely in accordance with regulations governing such transfers.
When a vehicle to which a permit is affixed is sold, transferred,
demolished or in any other manner rendered unusable to the resident,
the resident shall remove the permit from the motor vehicle and may
request the issuance of a replacement permit. The permittee shall
notify the Department of Licenses, Zoning and Inspections of a change
in status of the motor vehicle. The application for a replacement
permit shall be the same as the application for an original or renewal
permit. The replacement permit shall be issued and shall be valid
for the unexpired term of the original permit, except that a replacement
permit may not be issued for any motor vehicle for which one or more
unpaid citations have been issued by the Township for parking violations.
The fee for a replacement permit shall be prorated.
The Department of Licenses, Zoning and Inspections shall issue
a temporary parking permit for use by a bona fide long-term visitor
to a residence within a residential parking district. An application
for a long-term temporary permit shall be made by a resident of a
district on a form that shall be prescribed by the Department of Licenses,
Zoning and Inspections. The long-term visitor parking permit shall
valid for a fourteen-day period. The fee for a temporary permit, if
any, shall be established by resolution of the Township Council.
No person shall park a vehicle upon any of the streets or parts of streets described in Schedule XX (§
191-84) during the hours indicated without first obtaining a permit in accordance with the provisions of this article.
[Amended 6-16-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-06]
Any person who shall violate any provision of this article,
including misuse of any permit, short-term visitor’s pass or
temporary permit, shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to
pay a fine of $1,000, together with costs of prosecution.