Arcata Municipal Code Art. 10 Stopping for Loading or Unloading Only

(a) The City Manager is hereby authorized to determine and to mark loading zones and passenger loading zones as follows:

1. At any place in any business district.

2. Elsewhere in front of the entrance to any place of business or in front of any hall or place used for the purpose of public assembly.

(b) In no event shall more than one-half of the total curb length in any block be reserved for loading zone purposes.

(c) Passenger loading zones shall be indicated by a white line stenciled with black letters, "PASSENGER LOADING ONLY", upon the top of all curbs in said zones.

(a) The City Manager is hereby authorized, subject to the provisions and limitations of this Chapter to place, and when required herein shall place, the following curb markings to indicate parking or standing regulations, and said curb markings shall have the meaning as herein set forth.

1. Red shall mean no stopping, standing, or parking at any time except as permitted by the vehicle code, and except that a bus may stop in a red zone marked or signed as a bus zone.

2. Yellow shall mean no stopping, standing or parking at any time between 7:00 a.m., and 6:00 p.m. of any day except Sunday and holidays for any purpose other than the loading or unloading of passengers or materials, provided that the loading or unloading of passengers shall not consume more than three (3) minutes nor the loading or unloading of materials more than twenty (20) minutes.

3. White shall mean no stopping, standing or parking for any purpose other than loading or unloading of passengers or for the purpose of depositing mail in an adjacent mail box, which shall not exceed three (3) minutes, and such restrictions shall apply between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day except Sundays and holidays and except as follows:

When such zone is in front of a mail box, the restrictions shall apply at all times; when such zone is in front of a hotel, the restrictions shall apply at all times; when such zone is in front of a theater the restrictions shall apply at all times except when such theater is closed.

4. Green shall mean no standing or parking for longer than twenty (20) minutes at any time between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day except Sundays and holidays.

5. Blue shall mean parking limited exclusively to the vehicles of physically handicapped persons who display a distinguishing license plate or a placard issued pursuant to Section 22511.5 of the California Vehicle Code or disabled veterans, as specified in Section 9105 of the California Vehicle Code. Such parking spaces shall be established by resolution of the City Council of the City of Arcata.

(b) When the City Manager as authorized under this ordinance has caused curb markings to be placed, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle adjacent to any such legible curb marking in violation of any of the provisions of this section.

(a) Permission herein granted to stop or stand a vehicle for purposes of loading or unloading of materials shall apply only to commercial vehicles and shall not extend beyond the time necessary therefore, and in no event for more than twenty (20) minutes.

(b) The loading or unloading of materials shall apply only to commercial deliveries, also the delivery or pickup of express and parcel post packages and United States mail.

(c) Permission herein granted to stop or park for purposes of loading or unloading passengers shall include the loading or unloading of personal baggage but shall not extend beyond the time necessary therefore and in no event for more than three (3) minutes.

(d) Within the total time limits above specified the provisions of this section shall be enforced so as to accommodate necessary and reasonable loading or unloading but without permitting abuse of the privileges hereby granted.

No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle in any yellow loading zone for any purpose other than loading or unloading of passengers for such time as is specified in Section 3522.

No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle for any purpose other than the loading or unloading of persons or materials in any alley.

(a) The City Manager is hereby authorized to establish bus zones opposite curb space for the loading and unloading of buses of common carriers of passengers and to determine the location thereof subject to the directives and limitations set forth herein.

(b) The word "bus" as used in this section shall mean any motor bus or motor coach used as a common carrier of passengers.

(c) No bus zone shall exceed 80 feet in length, except that when satisfactory evidence has been presented to the City Manager showing the necessity therefore, the City Manager may extend bus zones not to exceed a total length of 125 feet.

(d) Bus zones shall normally be established on the far side of an intersection.

(e) No person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle except a bus in a bus zone.

Whenever any resolution of this City designates special parking regulations for two- or three-wheeled vehicles, the City Manager shall place and maintain signs giving notice hereof, and no such regulations shall be in effect until those signs are in place.