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Home My WebLink About1993-09-28 - ORDINANCES - PARKING TRAFFIC REGS (2)ORDINANCE NO. 93-16 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA AMENDING THE SANTA CLARITA MUNICIPAL CODE BY ADDING AND AMENDING CERTAIN SECTIONS OF CHAPTER 12.64 RELATIVE TO STOPPING, STANDING, AND PARKING REGULATIONS AND AMENDING SECTION 12.20.130 OF CHAPTER 12.20 RELATIVE TO TRAFFIC SIGNS AND SIGNALS. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION I. Section 12.64.010 is hereby added to the Santa Clarita Municipal Code to read as follows: 12.64.010 Parking Time Lknks. Whenever the City Council finds that on any portion of the highway or of any parking lot maintained or operated for the public by the city there is at any time lack of sufficient space to accommodate the operators of vehicles and that the time of parking should be limited so that everyone may have his fair tum, the City Engineer shall erect and maintain adequate signs along such portion of the highway specifying the limitation on the time of parking. SECTION 2. Section 12.64.250 is hereby added to the Santa Clarita Municipal Code to read as follows: 12.64.250 Double Parking Prohibited. A. A person shall not park any vehicle on the roadway side of a vehicle which is stopped, parked or standing on a highway at the curb or edge of the roadway. B. For the purpose of this section "roadway" is defined as that portion of the street which is improved. C. This section does not prohibit any action prohibited by Section 22500 of the Vehicle Code or any other state law." SECTION 3. Section 12.64.255 is hereby added to the Santa Clarita Municipal Code to read as follows: 12.64.255 Parking Against Red Curb. A person shall not stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle adjacent to a curb that is designated by red paint, pursuant to California Vehicle Code section 21458, except that a bus may stop in a red zone marked or posted as a bus loading zone. Any curb that is designated as such by red paint, shall only be done at the direction and authorization of the City Engineer. SECTION 4. Section 12.64.265 is hereby added to the Santa Clarita Municipal Code to read as follows: 12.64.265 Posted No Parking. Whenever the City Council finds that the parking of vehicles at all or certain hours of the day upon any portion of a highway a traffic hazard or impedes the free flow of traffic, or both, the City Engineer, pursuant to California Vehicle Code section 22507, shall erect signs stating that on such portion of such highway parking is prohibited at all or certain hours of the day. SECTION 5. Section 12.64.300 is hereby added to the Santa Clarita Municipal Code to read as follows: 12.64.300 Blocking Highway. A person shall not park any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon any highway where the roadway is bordered by adjacent curbs unless not less than eight feet of the width of the paved or improved or main traveled portion of such highway opposite such parked vehicle is left clear and unobstructed for the free passage of other vehicles. SECTION 6. Section 12.64.330 is hereby added to the Santa Clarita Municipal Code to read as follows: 12.64.330 Parking In Intersection. A person may park within an intersection adjacent to the curb if the City Council finds, pursuant to Section 22500 of the California Vehicle Code, that the width of the highway and traffic conditions are such that such parking will not constitute a traffic hazard or impede the free flow of traffic. SECTION 7. Section 12.64.345 is hereby added to the Santa Clarita Municipal Code to read as follows: 12.64.345 Vehicle Maintenance In Public Parking. No person shall perform any maintenance, repair or similar operation on any vehicle in a parking area unless the vehicle is parked in a parking area specifically designated for such operations. The provisions of this section do not prohibit the operator of any vehicle which is disabled from making or causing to be made in an expeditious manner the repairs necessary to enable such vehicle to be moved to a parking area designated for vehicle maintenance and repair. SECTION 8. Section 12.20.130 of the Santa Clarita Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: 12.20.130 Parking Space Markings. The City Engineer may install and maintain parking space markings to indicate parking space adjacent to the curb 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 or left standing other than within a single space unless the size or shape of such vehicle makes compliance impossible. Further, no person shall park, or cause to be parked, any vehicle within any facility except between lines indicating where vehicles shall be parked, and no person shall so park any vehicle so as to use or occupy more than one such marked parking space. —2— SECTION 9. Section 12.64.390 of the Santa Clarita Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: 12.64.390 Restricted Parking Area. Whenever any parking area or portion of a parking area is assigned for the exclusive use of the occupants of a facility or the occupants of a portion of a facility and at, in or near such parking area or portion of a parking area there is a legible sign stating either that such parking area or portion of a parking area is exclusively assigned or that parking is prohibited, or both, a person, other than an occupant of the facility or an occupant of the portion of the facility to which such parking area or portion of a parking area is assigned, shall not park any vehicle in such parking area or portion of a parking area. SECTION 10. If any section, sentence, clause, phrase, part or portion of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council declares that it would have adopted this Ordinance and each section, sentence, clause, phrase, part or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, sentences, clauses, phrases, parts or portions be declared invalid or unconstitutional. SECTION 11. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this Ordinance and shall cause the same to be published in the manner required by law. PASSED AND APPROVED this 28th day of Seatember 1993. ATTEST: CITY CLERK -3— MAYOR STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) CITY OF SANTA CLARITA ) I, DONNA GRINDEY, City Clerk of the City of Santa Clarita, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. A--t—jr,_ was regularly introduced and placed upon its first re ading at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 14th day of September 1993. That thereafter, said Ordinance was duly adopted and passed at a regular meeting of the City Council on the lath day of s=rmber , 1993, by the following vote, to wit: AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: Boyer, Darcy, Klajic, Pederson, Heidt NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: None ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: None ABSTAIN: COUNCILMEMBERS: None KWGMMM7/9&MW.dw -4- / tl % V� , ON LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUNICIPAL COURT NEWHALL JUDICIAL DISTRICT DATED: BY: Earl S. Bradley, Court Administrator fox Los Angeles County Municipal Court Newhall Judicial District ATTEST: CITY OF SANTA CLARITA DAT®' BY: ATTEST: CITY CLERK