Article 14 — Parking of Commercial Vehicles

(a)

The city council finds that the parking of oversized commercial vehicles and trailers and unattached trailers on public streets can, unless controlled, provide neighborhood blight and deterioration, impair visibility, constitute a nuisance, and be injurious to the health, safety and general welfare. Therefore, the presence of such vehicles on public rights-of-way is prohibited except as permitted in this chapter and is declared to constitute a public nuisance.

(b)

This article is adopted under California Vehicle Code Section 22507.5.

(Ord. 369 § 1 (part), 1988)

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

(a)

"Commercial vehicle" means a vehicle of a type required to be registered under the State Vehicle Code used or maintained for the transportation of persons for hire, compensation or profit or designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of property. (Reference: California Vehicle Code Section 260.)

(b)

"Oversize vehicle" means a vehicle or a vehicle and trailer combination which has a manufacturer's gross weight rating of 10,000 pounds or more or the dimensions of which exceed 20 feet in length or seven feet in height.

(c)

"Residential district" means a single-family residential, low-density residential or multiple-family residential district established under Chapters 6-7 and 6-8 of this code.

(Ord. 369 § 1 (part), 1988)

Except as provided in Section 8-8154, no person within the city may park or leave standing an oversized commercial vehicle:

(a)

Upon any public street between the hours of two a.m. and six a.m.; or

(b)

In a residential district at any time.

(Ord. 369 § 1 (part), 1988)

The parking prohibition of Section 8-8153 does not apply to a commercial oversize vehicle making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares or merchandise or delivering building materials to a site for which a current building permit exists.

(Ord. 369 § 1 (part), 1988)

Signs announcing the parking prohibition in this article and giving notice of removal shall be posted at major entry points to the city. This article applies only after such notice is posted.

(Ord. 369 § 1 (part), 1988)

In addition to penalties set forth in Sections 8-837 and 8-838, under California Vehicle Code Section 22657 and 8-836 of this chapter, the city may remove a vehicle parked or left standing in violation of this chapter.

(Ord. 424 § 8, 1993: Ord. 369 § 1 (part), 1988)