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Home My WebLink AboutAGENDA REPORT 1994 0302 CC REG ITEM 11FITEM 114:* AG�:NDA REPORT C= T Y O F MOOR PARK TO: The Honorable City Council FROM: Kenneth C. Gilbert, Director of Public Works DATE: February 23, 1994 (Council Meeting 3 -2 -94) ng 2�)�: - ,��. -- 199 i SUBJECT: Consider a Resolution Restricting the Parking of Unattached Trailers and Semitrailers on City Streets DISCUSSION A. Seventy -two Hour Limit Section 10.04.220 of the Moorpark Municipal Code prohibits the improper storage of vehicles on City Streets. Pursuant to this Section a vehicle may not park in one location for more than seventy -two (72) hours. One of the methods of determining if a violation of this Section has occurred, is noting whether or not the reading on the vehicle's odometer has changed. B. Improper Storage of Unattached Trailers and Semitrailers on City Streets In that trailers and semitrailers do not have odometers, it is not possible to demonstrate that an unattached trailer or semitrailer has not been moved. Accordingly, the City has found it difficult to impossible to enforce the seventy -two (72) hour parking limitation on unattached trailers and semitrailers. The subject resolution (attached) will resolve this problem by prohibiting the parking of unattached trailers and semitrailers on a City streets, except as provided for in the Resolution. C. Prohibiting the Parking Unattached Trailers and Semitrailers Section 22507 of the California Vehicle Code (CVC) states in part as follows: "Local authorities may, by ordinance or resolution, prohibit or restrict the stopping, parking or standing of vehicles, including but not limited to, ..., on certain streets or highways, ... during all or :•ertain hours of the day." unnotor Unattached Trailers March 1994 Page 2 In a recent decision, the courts have upheld the right of local authorities to prohibit or restrict the parking of specific types of vehicles on City streets. It is the opinion of the City Attorney that the City may use this provision of the California Vehicle Code to prohibit the parking of unattached trailers and semitrailers on City streets. If adopted, the attached resolution will establish a parking prohibition for trailers and semitrailers on any street within the City of Moorpark, with the following exceptions: 1) any trailer or semitrailer attached to a vehicle capable of moving the trailer or semitrailer; 2) any trailer or semitrailer in the process of being loaded or unloaded; 3) any trailer displaying a Temporary Trailer Parking Permit; and, 4) any trailer or semitrailer which i4 disabled for a temporary period of time. D. Temporary Trailer Parking Permits At a recent meeting of the Transportation and Streets Committee (Mayor pro tem Hunter and Councilmember Wozniak) , there was discussion of a need to permit the storage of a trailer on the street in front of a residence for an extended period of time to allow for the loading and unloading of said trailer. It was not deemed necessary to extend this privilege to semitrailers. In order to accommodate this perceived need, the attached draft resolution provides for the issuance of Temporary Trailer Parking Permits. The resolution sets forth certain minimum standards to be used in administering the issuance of such permits, which are restated as follows: 1) the maximum duration of any permit shall be (7) seven days; 2) no more than twelve (12) permits may be issued to any given address or trailer license number during any one year period; 3) no more than one (1) permit may be issued to a given address during any given period of time; 4) the trailer must be legally parked in front of the address of the permittee. unrntor Unattached Trailers March 1994 Page 3 5) a permit issued to a trailer does not exempt the trailer or the owner of said trailer from any established parking restrictions, including parkinq prohibitions established for the purpose of facilitatinq street sweeping. E. Signs In order to be effective, it will be necessary to post signs giving notice of this parking restriction. In lieu of posting such signs at frequent intervals on every street in the City, the resolution directs that such signs be placed at all entrances to the City and at certain other locations as deemed appropriate by the City Manager to provide for adequate notice. In addition, the Resolution stipulates the minimum size of the sign and the sign lettering to ensure that such signs are readable by passinq motorists_ RECOMMENDED ACTION Staff recommends that the City Council adopt the attached resolution restricting the parkinq of unattached trailers and semitrailers on City streets. in—tor RESOLUTION NO. 94 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NOORPARK, CALIFORNIA, PROHIBITING THE PARKING OF UNATTACHED TRAILERS AND SEMITRAILERS ON CITY STREETS WHEREAS, Section 22507 of the California Vehicle Code (CVC) provides for the prohibition or restriction of the stopping, parking or standing of vehicles on certain streets or highways during all or certain hours of the day; and, WHEREAS, it has been determined that such parking restrictions may be made to apply to specific types of vehicles, as specified by the local agency; and, WHEREAS, the City Council has determined that the public health and safety would be better served if the parking of unattached trailers and semitrailers on City streets were restricted; and, WHEREAS, CVC Section 22507 also provides for the issuance of permits exempting certain vehicles from specified parking restrictions; and, WHEREAS, the City Council has determined that such parking permits, making trailers exempt from said parking restrictions under certain specified conditions, should be made available to and, upon request, issued to the owner of a trailer. NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK, CALIFORNIA, DOES HEREBY RESOLVE, DETERMINE AND ORDER AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. That, except as noted in Section 2 below, the parking of any trailer or semitrailer upon any highway, street, alley, public way or public place is hereby prohibited. SECTION 2. That said the parking prohibition shall not apply to any trailer or semitrailer meetinq the (..riteria for exemptions, said criteria being defined as follows: a) any trailer or semitrailer which is at all times while so parked attached to a vehicle capable of moving the trailer or semitrailer in a normal manner upon the highway, street, alley, public way or public place. b) any trailer or semitrailer which is in the process of being loaded or unloaded. Resolution No. Page 2 c) any trailer which displays a Temporary Trailer Parking Permit issued by the City in accordance with the provisions set forth in Section 3 of this Resolution. d) any trailer or semitrailer which is disabled in such a manner and to such an extent that it is impossible to avoid stopping, and temporarily leaving the disabled trailer or semitrailer on that portion of the highway, street, alley, public way or public place ordinarily used for vehicular parking. SECTION 3. That the City Manager shall establish policies and procedures for the issuance of Temporary Trailer Parking Permits, said policies and procedures to include the following minimum provisions: a) a permit shall be issued to an unattached trailer when the owner or renter of said trailer requests said permit in order to allow for the parking of said trailer on a City street for an extended period of time for the purpose of loading and /or unloading; b) the maximum duration of any permit shall be (7) seven days; c) no more than twelve (12) permits may be issued to any given address during any one year period: d) no more than one (1) permit may be issued to a given address or trailer license number during any given period of time: e) the permitted trailer must be Legally parked in front of the address of the permittee. f) a permit issued to a trailer does not exempt the trailer or the owner of said trailer from any established parking restrictions, including parking prohibitions established for the purpose of facilitating street sweeping. SECTION 4. That the City Manager is directed to place and maintain signs giving notice of said parking prohibition at a conspicuous location at each entrance to the City, as well as at other additional locations as deemed necessary and appropriate by the City Manager, to facilitate the proper and adequate notice of said parking prohibition. Resolution No. Page 3 SECTION 5. That the minimum size of said signs shall be forty - eight inches by thirty -six inches (4811 x 36 "), with sign lettering having a minimum size of six inches (F > 111 PASSED AND ADOPTED this 2nd day of March. 1994. Mayor, City of Moorpark, California ATTESTED: City Clerk