HomeMy WebLinkAbout2017-12-12; City Council; CS-328; AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTION 10.40.145 OF THE CARLSBAD MUNICIPAL CODEORDINANCE NO. CS-328
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARLSBAD,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTION 10.40.145 OF THE CARLSBAD
MUNICIPAL CODE
Exhibit 1
WHEREAS, Carlsbad Municipal Code section 10.40.145, authorizes the City to install
and maintain parking space markings to indicate parking spaces adjacent to curbings where
authorized parking is permitted.
WHEREAS, Carlsbad Municipal Code section 10.40.145 currently allows for vehicles to
park within and beyond the marked parking space when the size of the vehicle is larger than a
single marked parking space.
WHEREAS, vehicles parking, standing and/or stopping beyond a marked space can cause
safety concerns.
WHEREAS, vehicles parking, standing and/or stopping beyond a marked space may
impede access to adjacent property.
WHEREAS, Vehicle Code section 22507(a) allows the City to prohibit and/or restrict the
parking, standing or stopping of vehicles on any street, highway or portion thereof.
THEREFORE, the City Council ofthe City of Carlsbad, California, does ordain as follows:
Section 1. It is the purpose and intent of the Carlsbad City Council in enacting this
ordinance to authorize and empower the City, through its Public Works Department and its
traffic engineers, to determine which highways, streets, lots or portions thereof in the City
should contain a prohibition or restriction prohibiting and/or restricting vehicles from parking,
standing or stopping beyond the marked parking spaces and once that determination is made,
install and maintain parking space markings and post signage notifying motorists that parking,
standing or stopping beyond the marked parking spaces is prohibited and/or restricted.
Section 2. To effectuate the above stated purposes and intentions of the Carlsbad City
Council, section 10.40.145 of the Carlsbad Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as
follows:
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, and to indicate those locations wherein the parking of
vehicles beyond the marked parking space is prohibited.
When such parking space markings are placed in the highway, street
or in a municipally owned and/or operated parking lot, 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.
Where signs or markings are installed to indicate that stopping,
standing and/or parking vehicles beyond the marked parking space is
prohibited or restricted, no vehicle shall be stopped, left standing and/or
parked contrary to such prohibition or restriction or within an area designated
as prohibited or restricted.
Exhibit 1
EFFECTIVE DATE: This ordinance shall be effective thirty days after its adoption; and the
City Clerk shall certify the adoption of this ordinance and cause it to be published at least once in
a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Carlsbad within fifteen days after its adoption.
INTRODUCED AND FIRST READ at a regular meeting of the Carlsbad City Council on the
day of 5th day of December, 2017, and thereafter
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Carlsbad on
the 12th day of December, 2017, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
H. Hall, K. Blackburn, M. Schumacher, C. Schumacher, M. Packard.
None.
None.
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
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CELIA A. BREWER, City Attorney