HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD-19-03 Amend Portions of Title 10- Parking Time LimitationsORDINANCE NO. 19-
03 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
TH}:CITY OF ORANGE AMENDING PORTIONS
OF CHAPTERS 10.30, 10.34 AND10.42 OF TITLE 10
OF THE ORANGE MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING
TO PARKING TIME LIMITATIONS ON PLAZA
SQUARE AND BOTH PERMIT PARKING ro:QUlREMENTS
AND PARKING TIME LIMITATIONS ON
CERTAIN MUNICIPAL PARKING LOTS SERVING
THE CENTRAL PUBLIC SQUARE AND CIRCULAR
PLAZA AT GLASS ELL STREET AND CHAPMAN
AVENUE.WHEREAS, Chapter 10.30 of the Orange Municipal Code regulates those areas
in the City which are subject to the Neighborhood Parking Permit Program, including
permit parking on municipal parking lots serving the central public square and circular plaza
at Glassell Street and Chapman Avenue (the Plaza);
and WHEREAS, it is more efficient to remove from Chapter 10.30 the specific fees
for permit parking in certain municipal parking lots serving the Plaza and to allow for such
fees to be set forth in the City's Master Schedule of Fees and Charges by the adoption of
a resolution of the City Council, as the same may be: amtmded from time to time;
and WHEREAS, Chapter 10.34 of the Orange Municipal Code prohibits or
restricts,among other things, the stopping, parking or standing of vehicles on certain streets
or highways during all or certain hours of the day, which the City Council now desires
to amend, in part;
and WHEREAS, Chapter 10.42 of the Onmge Municipal Code regulates
off-street parking lots located in the City of Orange, which the City now desires to amend, in
part, to increase from two hours to three hours the time limit for parking spaces
within certain municipal parking lots serving the
Plaza; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the approval of fees for
permit parking authorized by this ordinance is exempt from the California Environmental Quality
Act (CEQA)pursmmt to Section 15272 of the State CEQA Guidelines because the fees to be
collected are necess,ary to maintain the municipal parking lots serving the
Plaza; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the modification of the time limits
for parking of vehicles on Plaza Square and certain streets serving the Plaza, as
described herein below, falls within that class of projects which will not cause a significant effect
on the environment and is exempt from the California Enviromnental Quality Act (
CEQA) pursuant to Section 15301 of the State CEQA Guidelines b'~caust~ such action involves negligible
or no expansion of use of the streets beyond that
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ORANGE
DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION I:
Section 10.30.030 of the Orange Municipal Code is repealed in its entirety and
replac(:d with a new Section 10.30.030 to read as follows:
10.30.030 Permit Parking--Plaza
Area.A. The City Traffic Engineer is authorized to designate and to alter, from time
to time, the number and locations of spaces for permit parking at all parking lots owned by
the City of Orange serving the central public square and circular plaza at Glassell Street
and Chapman Avenue (the Plaza), which parking lots are described in Section10.42.050 of
this code. Furthermore, the City Traffic Engineer is authorized to establish from time to
time,and to change, alter, and amend, and the Chief of Police is authorized to enforce,
any reasonable rules and regulations which are deemed necessary or advisable for the proper
and efficient operation of the permit parking at all such parking
lots.B. Permits shall be issued by the City's Director of Finance on a semi-annual
basis in an amount and based upon the fees therefor established and adjusted, from time to
time, by resolution of the City Council amending the Master Schedule of Fees and
Charges. Permits shall be affixed or attached to a permittee's motor vehicle in an area or location
as designated by the Chief
of Police.
SECTION II:Section 10.34.030 of the Orange Municipal Code is repealed in its
entirety and replacl:d with a newSection 10.34.030 to read
as follows:10.34.030 Parking Limited to Thirty
Minutes--Green Curb.No person shall stop or park a vehicle longer than thirty (
30) minutes during designated hours of designated days in any thirty (30)
minute parking
zone.SECTION III:Section 10.34.040 of the Orange Municipal Code IS repealed in
its entirety and replacl:d with anew Section 10.34.040 to
read as follows:10.34.
040 One-Hour Parking--Generally.No person shall stop or park a vehicle longer
than one hour continuously during designated hours of designated
days in anyone-hour parking
SECTION IV:
Section 10.34.050 of the Orange Municipal Code IS repealed in its entirety and
replaced with a new Section 10.34.050 to read as follows:
10.34.050 Two-Hour
Parking-Generally.No person shall stop or park a vehicle longer than two hours
continuously during designated hours of designated days in any two-
hour parking
zone.SECTIONV:Section 10.42.050 of the Orange Municipal Code is repealed in
its entirety and replaced with anew Section 10.42.050 to
read as follows:10.42.050 Off-Street
Parking Lots-.Three-Hour Limit.A. No person shall stop or park a vehich:
longer than three hours continuously during designated hours of designated days upon the fi)llowing
parking lots owned and under the control of the City
and located in the City:1. The southwest comer of
Orange Street and Maple Avenue;2. The southeast comer of
Olive Street and Maple Avenue;3. On South Grand Street between 124-142
South Grand
Street and 230 E.Chapman Avenue;4. The
100 block of South Orange Street;5. The
100 block of North Orange Street;6. On the east and west sides of the 100
block of South Olive Street; and 7. The
100 block of North Olive Street.B. Appropriate signs shall be posted by the
City Traffic Engineer in and about the parking
lots specifying
the aforementioned time limit.SECTION VI:A summary of this Ordinance shall be published and a certified
copy of the full text of this Ordinance shall be posted in the Office of the City Clerk at least
five (5) days prior to the City Council meeting at which this Ordinance is to be
adopted. A summary of this Ordinance shall also be published once within fifteen (I5} days after
this Ordinance's passage in a newspaper of general circulation, published, and circulated in
the City of Orange. The City Clerk shall post in the Office of the City Clerk a certified copy of
the full text of such adopted Ordinance along with the names of those City Council
members voting for and against the Ordinance in accordance with Government Code
Section 36933. This Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days from and after
the date of its final
passage.TJR 3Ord. No. 19-
03
ADOPTED this 14th day of October, 2003.
Mark of Orange
ATTEST:
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE )
CITY OF ORANGE )
I, CASSANDRA J. CATHCART, City Clerk of the City of Orange, California, do
hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was introduced at the regular meeting of the City
Council held on the 23rd day of September, 2003, and thereafter at the regular meeting of
2003, was duly passed and said City Council duly held on the 14th day of October, 2003
adopted by the following Yote, to wit:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
COUNCILMEMBERS: Ambriz, Murphy, Coontz, Cavecche
COUNCILMEMBERS: None
COUNCILMEMBERS: None
COUNCILMEMBERS: Al varez
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TJR