10.36.170 Designation of preferential parking permit areas—Adoption of resolution.
A. The council should, by resolution, designate an area of the city as a preferential parking permit area if the council finds that:
1. The streets in the area do not provide for paid parking controlled and regulated by the city as set forth in Chapter 10.52;
2. The streets in the area are congested with vehicles parked by persons not residing or working in the area and the designation is supported by a sixty percent majority of the affected addressed units as indicated by a city survey of the affected addressed units; or
3. Limiting the parking of vehicles along the streets in the area to vehicles registered or controlled and exclusively used by persons residing in an area or working in the area is necessary in order to preserve the character and to manage parking demand of the existing area approved by a sixty percent majority of addressed units in the area. Addressed units will be determined using the city’s address database (there may be more than one addressed unit per parcel) and will be limited to either commercial units or residential units, including nonmultifamily units of less than five dwelling units with the exception of the preferential parking permit district on Dana Street which will allow for the following modifications:
a. Multifamily units of five to eight dwelling units to be eligible to receive permits. This exception will be in effect until the completion of construction of the Palm-Nipomo parking structure or until nullified by city council action.
b. Commercial properties located on or immediately adjacent to Dana Street to be eligible to receive limited daytime use permits.
B. In determining whether limiting the parking of vehicles along the streets in the area to vehicles registered to or controlled and used exclusively by persons residing or working in the area is necessary in order to preserve the character of the existing area for the persons residing or working in the area, the council shall consider the negative effect of vehicles parked by persons not residing or working in the area on:
1. Environmental characteristics such as ambient noise levels and air pollution levels;
2. Pedestrian and vehicular traffic safety in the area; and
3. The burden on persons residing or working in the area gaining access to their residences or places of employment.
C. The council may, by resolution, designate an area of the city as a preferential parking permit area after holding a public hearing and making a finding that the establishment of the district represents the desire of a majority of the addressed units of the area. (Ord. 1710 § 1, 2022; Ord. 1707 § 1, 2022; Ord. 1694 § 1, 2021; Ord. 1454 § 1, 2004: Ord. 1412 § 2 (part), 2002; Ord. 1264 § 1, 1994: prior code § 3209.17)