Burbank Municipal Code Art. 30 Parking Meters and Parking

6-1-3001: PURPOSE:

This article establishes parking meter zones and the rules and regulations governing parking and the use of parking meters within parking meter zones. [Added by Ord. No. 24-4,019, eff. 12/27/24.]

6-1-3002: DEFINITIONS:

For the purposes of this article, the following definitions apply.

ALTERNATE FORM OF PAYMENT: Any lawful form of payment, including but not limited to, coins, tokens, prepaid cards, debit cards, and credit cards that a parking meter or mobile payment application is equipped to accept as payment for occupying a parking space.

DIRECTOR: The Community Development Director, or their designee. For purposes of this Article, the Director’s designee may include a City staff member, contractor, or the Parking Authority.

METERED PARKING SPACE: A parking space within a parking meter zone.

MOBILE PAYMENT APPLICATION: A smartphone application or web-based platform that functions as a parking meter and is authorized by the Director to record paid parking time and accept and register payment for one or more metered parking spaces.

MULTI-SPACE PARKING METER or PAY STATION: Any parking meter which records paid parking time and accepts and registers payment for more than one (1) metered parking space. If not located immediately adjacent to the parking space it regulates, a multi-space parking meter will be marked or labeled to identify the spaces it regulates.

PARKING AUTHORITY: The Parking Authority of the City of Burbank, California.

PARKING METER: Any device (including related software) which, upon the deposit of payment, registers the time that a vehicle is parked in a metered parking space for a specified time period or for a specific number of minutes. "Parking meter" includes a multi-space parking meter, or a mobile payment application.

VETERAN’S LICENSE PLATE: A currently valid special vehicle license plate issued by the State of California as described in California Vehicle Code 22511.3(a). The term includes a license plate issued by another State indicating a similar status. [Added by Ord. No. 24-4,019, eff. 12/27/24.]

6-1-3003: INSTALLATION AND REMOVAL OF METERED PARKING SPACES AND PARKING METERS AND HOURS OF OPERATION:

A. Upon establishment by the City Council of a parking meter zone, the Director shall install and maintain parking meters, and mark metered parking spaces to indicate where authorized parking is permitted.

B. Provisions of this article which require payment at parking meters shall apply at such times and hours as may be determined from time to time by the Director, based on activity of adjoining land uses, parking occupancy surveys, and the City’s adopted parking management principles, as may be amended or modified from time to time. Such times and hours shall be indicated by signs adjacent to or on the parking meter.

C. The Director may, in their discretion, from time to time prohibit all parking in any or all metered parking spaces during times of emergency or necessity or for any other reason, by posting “NO PARKING” signs or marking the restriction in any other way as may be authorized by law.

D. Upon the Director’s finding of public need and necessity or other public benefit, the Director may take any parking meter out of service temporarily or permanently by removal, by covering the parking meter, or by other means. [Added by Ord. No. 24-4,019, eff. 12/27/24.]

6-1-3004: OPERATION OF PARKING METERS:

A. Parking meters will indicate the type of United States currency they accept, such as coins, paper currency, or alternate forms of payment including, but not limited to, prepaid cards, debit cards, or credit cards.

B. If not immediately located adjacent to the parking space it regulates, a parking meter will be marked or labeled to identify the space(s) for which it accepts payment. Parking meters will measure, in minutes, the period of time during which a vehicle may park in a metered parking space without violating the provisions of this Article or any ordinance regulating parking upon the street or other area on which the parking meter is established.

C. If a mobile payment application is available for use, signs indicating how to use the mobile payment application will be posted throughout the parking meter zones. [Added by Ord. No. 24-4,019, eff. 12/27/24.]

6-1-3005: PARKING METHOD:

Except as required elsewhere in this Code or by State law, any vehicle parked or standing in any metered parking space shall be parked or stand within the lines marked on the street or other area for such parking space. No person shall park or stand any vehicle across any such line or mark or park the vehicle in such a way that it will not be within the area so designated by the signs, lines, or markings. [Added by Ord. No. 24-4,019, eff. 12/27/24.]

6-1-3006: PAYMENT FOR METERED PARKING SPACE:

A. No person shall park, stand or stop any vehicle in any metered parking space, during a period for which a paid parking time limit is applicable, without depositing in the assigned parking meter such lawful money of the United States, or the equivalent thereof indicated by the parking meter, as required by the parking meter for the duration of time the vehicle occupies the space.

Payments for metered parking spaces via an authorized mobile payment application when available in a parking meter zone will also be considered as satisfying the payment requirements of this section.

B. Payment must be evidenced by following the instructions posted on, adjacent to, or prompted within the parking meter. Such evidence will depend on the parking meter technology, and may include, but is not limited to, entering the parked vehicle’s license plate number or displaying a proof of payment ticket on the vehicle’s driver’s side front window. Failure to follow instructions to show evidence of payment may result in a violation of this Article.

C. If all assigned parking meter(s) for a metered parking space are inoperable, the time limits posted for the metered parking space will still be enforced during the posted hours of operation for the parking meter(s). [Added by Ord. No. 24-4,019, eff. 12/27/24.]

6-1-3007: UNLAWFUL TO EXCEED OR EXTEND TIME LIMITS:

A. No person shall stop or park any vehicle in any metered parking space beyond the posted time limit, or attempt to extend parking by depositing additional payment in a parking meter after a vehicle has parked for a consecutive number of minutes equal to or in excess of the posted time limit; provided, however, this Section shall not apply within the hours during which free parking is permitted.

B. Vehicle parking in a parking meter zone is limited to once per day per block or other street segment as indicated on signs within the parking meter zone. Upon the expiration of time for which payment has been made to park in a metered parking space, vehicles may not park or re-park within any metered parking space in the same block or other street segment until the beginning of the following calendar day.

C. This Section shall be enforced against vehicles that exceed posted time limits or applicable parking restrictions, even if additional payment has been deposited and accepted by a parking meter in an attempt to extend parking within a metered parking space, block, or street segment beyond the applicable time limits and restrictions. [Added by Ord. No. 24-4,019, eff. 12/27/24.]

6-1-3008: EVIDENCE OF VIOLATION:

Parking, stopping or standing of any vehicle in a metered parking space for which the parking meter indicates that (1) no payment has been made, (2) the paid time has expired, (3) that a vehicle has exceeded the maximum posted parking time limit, or (4) that a vehicle has improperly attempted to extend time in violation of this Article (either in the same space or a different space within the same parking meter zone), shall constitute a prima facie presumption that the vehicle has been parked in violation of this Article. [Added by Ord. No. 24-4,019, eff. 12/27/24.]

6-1-3009: PROHIBITED USE OF PARKING METERS:

A. No person shall deposit in any parking meter any defaced or bent coin, or any slug, device or substitute for the required coin or coins or paper currency of the United States or acceptable alternate form of payment.

B. No person shall direct or insert any card, object, substance or device in, upon, or at a parking meter as a means to avoid, or in lieu of, making lawful payment for parking as required by this Article.

C. No person shall deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter by any means. [Added by Ord. No. 24-4,019, eff. 12/27/24.]

6-1-3010: PURPOSE OF COMPENSATION:

The payment required to be made for parking in a metered parking space is necessary to achieve the parking occupancy performance goal needed for spaces to be well-used but readily available. Payment received may be used to pay for the expense incurred in furnishing the management, regulation, enforcement, and equipment, required by such parking. The payment received may also be used for public parking facilities maintenance and capital improvements (including, but not limited to public parking facilities owned and operated by the Parking Authority), transportation related improvements, and may also be used to supplement City or Parking Authority services in neighborhoods where parking management is implemented. The payment is found to be the fee necessary for the privilege, voluntarily exercised by owners, operators, managers or drivers of vehicles, of parking the vehicle within the metered parking spaces in a manner that achieves the parking occupancy performance goal. [Added by Ord. No. 24-4,019, eff. 12/27/24.]

6-1-3011: PAYMENT COLLECTION:

All payments made to or deposited in any parking meter shall be collected regularly by a person or entity designated by the City Manager, who may be a City staff member, one or more contractors selected and approved by the City in a manner consistent with the City Charter and all applicable ordinances, or the Parking Authority. [Added by Ord. No. 24-4,019, eff. 12/27/24.]

6-1-3012: ESTABLISHMENT OF PARKING METER ZONES AND RATES:

A. The areas or streets described below are hereby established as parking meter zones:

Zone Number Area/Street 1 North San Fernando Boulevard between East Magnolia Boulevard and East Olive Avenue, South San Fernando Boulevard between East Olive Avenue and East Angeleno Avenue, East Magnolia Boulevard between North First Street and North Third Street, Palm Avenue between North San Fernando Boulevard and North Third Street, East Orange Grove Avenue between North First Street and North Third Street, and East Olive Avenue between North First Street and North Third Street

B. The rates for parking a vehicle in a designated parking meter zone will be established and adjusted, from time to time, to manage the use and occupancy of public parking spaces for the public benefit.

C. The following on-street parking rates and ranges are established for the following parking meter zones:

a. Zone Number 1 – $2.00 dollars per hour. Rates may be adjusted as low as $1.00 dollar per hour and as high as $8.00 per hour.

D. The Director is authorized to adjust on-street parking rates from time to time based on the following:

a. Rates may be adjusted up or down within the ranges established by this Section in no more than fifty cent intervals to achieve target occupancy based on consideration of occupancy, customer parking availability concerns, comparable location surveys, and relationship to adjacent parking facilities.

b. Rates may not be adjusted more than six times per year and may not be adjusted more than once in any one-month period.

c. A current schedule of on-street parking rates shall be available at the City Clerk’s office and the Community Development Department, and broadly communicated to the public, including but not limited to display on or adjacent to related parking meters. For reference only, on-street parking rates in existence as of the date of the City’s annual adoption of the Fee Resolution will be listed in the Fee Resolution. [Added by Ord. No. 24-4,019, eff. 12/27/24.]

6-1-3013: EXEMPTIONS FROM THIS ARTICLE:

A. Sections 6-1-3006 and 6-1-3007 shall not apply to any of the following: vehicles lawfully displaying a special identification license plate or placard issued by the State to a disabled person or disabled veteran; emergency vehicles and other vehicles exempted from observing parking regulations pursuant to the applicable provisions of the California Vehicle Code, and vehicles exempted from this title by Section 6-1-305.

B. Section 6-1-3006 shall not apply to vehicles lawfully displaying a veteran’s license plate. [Added by Ord. No. 24-4,019, eff. 12/27/24.]

1 State law reference: As to definitions, see Veh.C. § 100 et seq.

2 State law reference: As to definitions of parking, stopping and standing, see Veh.C §§ 463 and 587. As to authority for local regulation of parking, see Veh.C §§ 22500-22710.

3 State law reference: See also Veh.C § 22500.

4 State law references: As to abandoning vehicle on highway, see Veh.C. § 22523. As to authority to remove parked or abandoned vehicles, see Veh.C. §§ 22650-22710.

5 State law reference: Authorized by Veh.C § 22503. As to parallel parking, see Veh.C § 22502.

6 State law reference: As to parking within crosswalks, intersections, safety zones, and sidewalks, see Veh.C. § 22500. As to requirement to obey official traffic control devices, see Veh.C. § 21461. As to definition of official traffic control device, see Veh.C. § 440. As to power of local authorities to regulate standing and parking generally, see Veh.C. §§ 21100(d), 21100.1, 21351 and 22500-22526.

7 State law reference: As to grade parking, see Veh.C. § 22509.

8 State law reference: As to markings on curb as affecting parking, see Veh.C. § 21458. As to curb parking in general, see Veh.C. §§ 22502, 22503.

9 State law reference: As to loading zones, see Veh.C. § 21458.

10 Prior legislation: Ordinance 22-3,966 repeals and replaces Title 6, Ch. 1, Art. 16, which derived from Ordinances 2977, 3058 and 3723.