Long Beach Municipal Code Ch. 10.22 Parking—regulations

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State Law reference— Provisions on stopping and parking, Veh. C. § 22500 et seq.

A. The provisions of this Code prohibiting the stopping, standing or parking of a vehicle shall apply at all times, or at those times specified in this Chapter and Chapter 10.24, except when it is necessary to stop a vehicle to avoid conflict with other traffic, or in compliance with the directions of a Police Officer or official traffic-control device.

B. The provisions of this Code imposing a time limit on standing or parking shall not relieve any person from the duty to observe other and more restrictive provisions of the California Vehicle Code or the Code of this City, prohibiting or limiting the standing or parking of vehicles in specified places or at specified times.

C. In the event a vehicle is stopped, parked or left standing in violation of any of the provisions of this Code or the California Vehicle Code, any officer of the Police Department may remove the vehicle from the street in the manner and subject to the requirements set forth in this Code and the California Vehicle Code.

(Prior code § 3410.85)

No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle within any parkway or sidewalk.

(Ord. C-6158 § 2, 1985; prior code § 3410.86)

A. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Code or of the California Vehicle Code § 22500(e), and pursuant to California Vehicle Code § 22507.2, the owner or lessee of property in the parking impacted area, as that term is defined below, may park a vehicle in front of the owner's or lessee's private driveway when the vehicle displays a permit (the "driveway parking permit") issued pursuant to this Section, provided that no such permit may be issued or continue in effect pursuant to this Chapter to permit parking in any private driveway or any street or side of any street where parking is otherwise restricted by time, days or as to specified hours.

B. Driveway parking permits shall be subject to the following conditions:

1. The driveway for which the driveway parking permit is sought must be designated for the exclusive use of one (1) household.

2. The driveway for which the driveway parking permit is sought must be at least eight feet (8') in width.

3. Issuance of a driveway parking permit does not guarantee a parking space if there is insufficient space between other legally parked vehicles.

4. Driveway parking permits are address and location specific. They may be transferred between vehicles registered to the same address.

5. Driveway parking permits shall be issued by the department of public works, office of the City Traffic Engineer on a calendar year basis, and each such permit shall expire at midnight (12:00 a.m.), December 31st next following its issuance. The fee charged for driveway parking permits issued for less than twelve (12) months may be reduced in proportion to the time already elapsed in the current calendar year for which the permit would be valid. Fees paid for permits which are revoked by the City Traffic Engineer may not be refunded. Permits may be renewed annually by mail.

6. A driveway parking permit will not be issued for driveways located within twenty-five feet (25') of a corner or within fifteen feet (15') of a fire hydrant.

7. A driveway parking permit will not be issued where parking in front of such driveway would pose a safety hazard, in the opinion of the City Traffic Engineer.

8. A driveway parking permit may be revoked at any time by the City Traffic Engineer.

C. Parking in front of private driveways may be permitted only in the parking impacted area, as that term is defined in Resolution No. C-24607, adopted by the Long Beach City Council on December 13, 1988, as it may be amended from time to time, on file in the office of the Director of Development Services.

D. Applications for driveway parking permits shall be reviewed and if appropriate, approved by the City Traffic Engineer. An application for driveway parking permits shall require, at a minimum, the following information:

1. Name of the applicant for the driveway parking permit;

2. Address of the property where the driveway is located;

3. A certification that the applicant's household is the exclusive user of the driveway;

4. Name and endorsement of the property owner or the owner's duly authorized property manager;

5. Identification of household vehicles, including license number, make and year of each vehicle registered at that address or to the household;

6. Identification of off-street parking spaces available on the property;

7. A certification stating the reason existing off-street parking at the property is insufficient to meet the applicant's parking needs;

8. Such additional information as the City Traffic Engineer may require; and

9. The statement that misuse of a permit issued under this Section is grounds for revocation of the permit by the City Traffic Engineer.

E. Every applicant for a driveway parking permit pursuant to this Section shall be required to pay a nonrefundable fee to cover the cost of receiving, processing and acting upon the application in an amount established by resolution of the City Council, which may be amended from time to time.

F. Driveway parking permits shall be displayed so as to be readily visible from the rearview mirror or by such other method as directed in instructions contained in the permit itself.

G. The City Traffic Engineer may, from time to time, promulgate rules and regulations, consistent with the purposes and provisions of this Section 10.22.025, to facilitate implementation of the section.

H. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize parking on a sidewalk in violation of the California Vehicle Code § 22500(f).

(ORD-10-0002, § 1, 2010; Ord. C-6506 § 1, 1988)

A. No person, who owns or has possession, custody or control of any vehicle, shall park such vehicle upon any street or alley for more than a consecutive period of seventy-two (72) hours.

B. In the event a vehicle is parked or left standing upon a street in excess of a consecutive period of seventy-two (72) hours, any officer of the Police Department may remove the vehicle from the street in the manner and subject to the requirements set forth in the California Vehicle Code.

(Prior code § 3410.87)

Subject to other and more restrictive limitations, a vehicle may be stopped or parked within eighteen inches (18") of the left curb facing in the direction of traffic movement upon any one-way street, unless signs are in place prohibiting such stopping or standing.

(Prior code § 3410.88)

A. Any person intending to park his vehicle in a limited curb parking space, whose vehicle arrives at the parking space prior to any other vehicle, and the rear end of whose vehicle proceeds beyond the space a distance not to exceed ten feet (10') for the purpose of backing his vehicle therein, shall have the right-of-way over any person driving, or attempting to drive, any other vehicle directly into such limited curb parking space, or who in any manner obstructs the limited curb parking space, and the driver of the other vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to the driver who first arrived at the parking space.

B. For the purpose of this Section, a "limited curb parking space" means an area open for lawful parking adjacent to a curb, which area is not of sufficient length to permit two (2) or more vehicles to freely move for parking therein at the same time.

(Prior code § 3410.89)

A. No operator of a vehicle shall stop, park or leave standing such vehicle in any of the following places, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or at the direction of Police Officer or a traffic sign or signal:

1. In any marked taxicab stand, except taxicabs;

2. Upon or across any car tracks so as to delay street or railway cars;

3. In front of the entrances of any undertaking establishment, except for funeral vehicles;

4. At any place within twenty feet (20') of a point on the curb immediately opposite the midblock end of a safety zone; provided, however, that in the parking impacted area as defined in Resolution No. 24607, adopted December 13, 1988, as it may be amended from time to time, or on one-way streets, the City Traffic Engineer in his discretion may reduce the length of "no parking" distances;

5. At any place within twenty feet (20') of a marked crosswalk, except that a bus may stop at a designated bus stop; provided, however, that in the parking impacted area or on one-way streets, the City Traffic Engineer in his discretion may reduce the length of "no parking" distances;

6. At any place where the City Traffic Engineer determines that it is necessary in order to eliminate dangerous traffic hazards;

7. Upon any street so as to obstruct the free use thereof;

8. At the curb in front of any hospital;

9. Within four feet (4') of the prolongation of the nearest edge of a driveway; provided, however, that in the parking impacted area, the City Traffic Engineer in his discretion may reduce the length of "no parking" distances adjacent to driveways if doing so would increase on-street parking availability or access;

10. At any place within fifteen feet (15') of a fire hydrant; provided, however, that in the parking impacted area, the City Traffic Engineer in his discretion may reduce the length of "no parking" distances adjacent to fire hydrants with the concurrence of the Fire Marshall;

11. At any place within twenty feet (20') of the approach to an intersection or ten feet (10') of the departure to an intersection, in order to allow for visibility of traffic control devices and to maintain visibility of cross traffic; provided, however; that in the parking impacted area, opposite the termination of a street at a "T" intersection or on one-way streets, the City Traffic Engineer in his discretion may reduce the length of "no parking" distances.

B. The City Traffic Engineer shall appropriately sign or mark the places enumerated in this Section.

(ORD-09-0021, § 19, 2009; Prior code § 3410.91)

No person shall park, or leave standing, any vehicle unattended on a highway when upon any grade exceeding three percent (3%) within any business or residential district without blocking the wheels of the vehicle by turning them against the curb, or by other means.

(Prior code § 3410.94)

No person shall park a vehicle with a sign or other writing indicating that the vehicle is for sale at any of the following through highways or service roads which connects directly with such through highway in the City:

A. Spring Street service road between Palo Verde Avenue and Studebaker Road;

B. Willow Street service road at Palo Verde Avenue;

C. Second Street service road between The Toledo and Naples Plaza;

D. Long Beach Boulevard between Ocean Boulevard and Anaheim Street;

E. Bellflower Boulevard between Colorado Street and Stearns Avenue, and between Twenty-Seventh and Twenty-Ninth Streets;

F. Studebaker Road between Atherton Street and Wardlow Road;

G. Spring Street between Atlantic Avenue and Studebaker Road;

H. Willow Street between Woodruff Avenue and Studebaker Road;

I. Seventh Street between Alamitos Avenue and Redondo Avenue;

J. Redondo Avenue between Ocean Boulevard and Anaheim Street;

K. Atlantic Avenue between Ocean Boulevard and Tenth Street;

L. Atlantic Avenue between Wardlow Road and Market Street;

M. Ocean Boulevard between Junipero Avenue and Fifty-Fourth Place;

N. Broadway Street between Junipero Avenue and Redondo Avenue;

O. Magnolia Avenue between Ocean Boulevard and Anaheim Street;

P. Pacific Avenue between Ocean Boulevard and Seventh Street;

Q. Ximeno Avenue between Ocean Boulevard and Tenth Street;

R. Cherry Avenue between Ocean Boulevard and Tenth Street;

S. Obispo Avenue between Seventh Street and Anaheim Street;

T. Anaheim Street between Termino Avenue and the I-710;

U. Spring Street between Knoxville Avenue and Studebaker Road;

V. San Antonio Drive between Orange Avenue and Atlantic Avenue;

W. Cherry Avenue between Market Street and Artesia Boulevard;

X. Cedar Avenue between Twelfth Street and Fourteenth Street;

Y. Alamitos Avenue between Ocean Boulevard and Seventh Street;

Z. Los Coyotes Diagonal between Woodruff and Gondar Avenue and on Woodruff Avenue between Los Coyotes Diagonal and Senasac Avenue;

AA. Seventh Street between Redondo Avenue and Park Avenue, Second Street between Livingston Drive and Ximeno Avenue, Bellflower Boulevard between Conant Street and Spring Street, including the service roads parallel thereto, and Del Amo Boulevard between Clark Avenue and Woodruff Avenue;

BB. Bayshore Avenue between Appian Way and Second Street, on Second Street between Bayshore Avenue and Naples Plaza and on Colorado Street between Nieto Avenue and Bellflower Boulevard;

CC. East side of Downey Avenue in the 5800, 5900 and 6000 blocks and the east side of Atlantic Avenue between Sixty-Eighth Street and Seventieth Street;

DD. Livingston Drive between Quincy Avenue and Prospect Avenue;

EE. Lois Lane between Bennett Avenue and Quincy Avenue;

FF. Second Street from Sorrento Drive to Naples Plaza;

GG. Naples Plaza from Second Street to The Toledo;

HH. 25th Way between De Forest Avenue and Golden Avenue; 26th Way between De Forest Avenue and Golden Avenue; and Golden Avenue between 27th Street and 25th;

II. Both sides of Artesia Boulevard between Atlantic Avenue and Orange Avenue; between Orange Avenue and Cherry Avenue; and between Cherry Avenue and Paramount Boulevard.

The terms "park" and "through highway", as used in this Section, have the respective meanings set forth in Sections 463 and 600 of the California Vehicle Code.

(ORD-10-0010, § 1, 2010; ORD-10-0009, § 1, 2010; ORD-07-0060 § 1, 2007; ORD-07-0035 § 1, 2007; ORD-07-0008 § 1, 2007; ORD-06-0060 § 1, 2006; ORD-06-0007 § 1, 2006; Ord. C-7936 § 1, 2004; Ord. C-7921 § 1, 2004; Ord. C-7915 § 1, 2004; Ord. C-7857 §§ 1, 2, 2003; Ord. C-7800 § 1, 2002: Ord. C-5592 § 1, 1980; prior code § 3410.95)

No driver or operator of any mobile vending vehicle shall stop, stand or park, for the purpose of offering any food or goods for sale, in any public street or place within the parking impacted area.

(ORD-09-0021, § 20, 2009; Prior code § 3410.96)

No operator shall stop, park or leave standing any vehicle at any time and at any point in a roadway adjacent to a commercial gutter or depressed curb where such commercial gutter or depressed curb has been installed for the purpose of providing access between the roadway and property immediately adjacent to the street right-of-way, which area is used for the parking, loading, unloading or the maneuvering of vehicles.

(Prior code § 3410.97)

No person shall park a vehicle in any fire lane designated by signs or markings or park or place any object, obstruction or vehicle in any establishment exitway, driveway, or alleyway between buildings that would hamper the ingress of fire equipment in case of fire in or about any church, assembly hall, lodge hall, school, hotel, apartment building, theater, motion picture theater, stadium, tent or other public assemblage. When a vehicle is parked in such designated fire lane or when, in the opinion of the Fire Chief, any driveway, gateway or alleyway between buildings is obstructed by objects, materials or vehicles, the same shall be immediately removed upon order of the Fire Chief, and when such obstruction is a vehicle, it may be impounded or removed as provided by law.

(Ord. C-5436 § 2, 1978; Ord. C-5398 § 15, 1978; prior code § 3410.104)

A. Any other limitation on, or regulation concerning, parking contained in this Title to the contrary notwithstanding, no operator of any vehicle shall park or stand the same on any portion of any street, during the period commencing with the time indicated on signs containing the words "NO PARKING" which signs have been placed on such portion pursuant to the provisions of this Section, and ending with the authorized removal of such signs. The Chief of Police and Traffic Engineer, or their designees, are authorized and directed to place and erect temporarily, or cause to be so placed and erected, such signs on any such portion of any street when, and for so long as, the use of such portion is necessary for repair, construction, the installation of underground utilities, or where the use of the street, or any portion thereof, has lawfully been authorized for a purpose other than the normal flow of traffic, or for the movement of equipment, articles or structures of unusual size. Such signs shall not be placed, however, unless the parking of a vehicle on such portion would prohibit or interfere with such use or movement. Any vehicle parking in violation of this Section may be removed, as provided in Subsection 10.22.010.C, if such signs have been erected or placed at such portion of such street at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to such removal.

B. Such signs shall be posted at the beginning and end of such portion of such street where parking is to be restricted and every forty feet (40') therein. Such signs shall contain, at a minimum, the following information: The date(s) and time(s) parking will be restricted in the area, the City department authorizing the parking restrictions, the name and phone number of the individual to contact with questions or concerns, the internet address, if applicable, of the City department or company performing the work or using the portion of the street where parking is restricted, and a description of the project or other use for which parking is restricted. Such signs shall be affixed to sign poles, saw horses, traffic control barrels, telephone poles, or light poles using tape, twine or rope. Such signs shall not be affixed to any of the foregoing objects with nails and shall not be affixed to trees. Such signs shall be erected or placed as indicated herein no later than twenty-four (24) hours prior to the time parking will first be restricted on such street.

C. The provisions of this Section prohibiting or restricting the parking of vehicles shall be inapplicable to any portion of a street constituting a portion of a State highway six (6) months after receipt by the Council of written notice from the Department of Public Works of the State of the withdrawal by the department of its approval or such prohibition or restriction as to any such portion of a State highway.

(ORD-08-0011 § 1, 2008; prior code § 3410.109)

A. No operator of any vehicle shall leave said vehicle standing, and no registered owner of such vehicle shall permit or allow said vehicle to remain standing, upon any street or alley in the City for a period longer than seventy-two (72) hours from the time the vehicle is posted as set forth in this Section; provided, however, that this action shall not authorize the parking or standing of vehicles upon any street or alley in violation of applicable parking limits specified by other provisions of this Title.

B. Whenever any Police Officer determines by tire marking or otherwise that any vehicle has been standing in one (1) position on any street or alley for a period longer than twelve (12) hours, he shall securely attach a notice upon such vehicle setting forth in such notice a reference to this Section, the location of the vehicle at the time, the date of the notice, and the approximate hour of posting. The notice shall be attached to the vehicle, in such conspicuous place upon the vehicle as to be easily observed by the person in charge of the vehicle upon his return thereto.

C. For the purpose of this Section, a vehicle shall be deemed to have been left standing when such vehicle has not been moved more than one (1) block under its own power from its original stopped position.

D. Any vehicle parked in violation of this Section may be removed from the street by any Police Officer in accordance with Section 22652 of the California Vehicle Code.

(Ord. C-5398 § 9, 1978; Ord. 5317 § 1, 1977; prior code § 3410.110)

A. Any other limitation on, or regulation concerning parking contained in this Title to the contrary notwithstanding, no operator of any vehicle shall park or stand the same on any street or portion thereof during the hours and on the day or days of the month indicated on signs containing the words "NO PARKING", which signs have been placed on such street or portion thereof pursuant to the provisions of this Section. The City Manager is authorized to place and erect, or cause to be so placed and erected, the aforesaid signs on any street or portion thereof on which it is necessary to prohibit parking in order to permit City equipment to sweep the street or portion thereof, and to designate on the signs the hours during which, and day or days of the month on which, parking is so prohibited. In the event temporary signs are employed to prohibit parking on any street or portion thereof pursuant to the foregoing, no vehicle parked in violation of the directions set forth on the temporary signs shall be removed, pursuant to the provisions of Subsection C. of Section 10.22.010, unless such signs have been erected or placed on the street or portion thereof at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to such removal.

B. The provisions of this Section prohibiting the parking of vehicles shall be inapplicable to any portion of a street constituting a portion of a State highway six (6) months after receipt by the Council of written notice from the Department of Public Works of the State of the withdrawal by the department of its approval of such prohibition as to any such portion of a State highway.

(Prior code § 3410.112)

It is unlawful for any person to construct or reconstruct or cause to be constructed or reconstructed, repair or cause to be repaired, to grease or cause to be greased any vehicle or any part thereof upon any street; provided, however, that temporary, minor repairs in case of an emergency may be made upon any street to enable the vehicle to be moved to a proper place for mechanical work.

(Prior code § 3410.113)

No person shall park a vehicle on private property if there is displayed in plain view a sign prohibiting public parking. The sign shall conform to the following:

A. The sign structure shall not be less than twenty-four inches (24") by seventeen inches (17") and shall be placed on the private property at each driveway access or curb cut allowing vehicular access to the property, within five feet (5') from the public right-of-way line. If there are no curbs or access barriers, signs shall be posted not less than one (1) sign per each fifty feet (50') of the frontage.

B. The notice shall clearly display the following:

1. In not less than two and three-eighth-inch (2⅜) high letters on contrasting background the words "NO PUBLIC PARKING";

2. In not less than one and one-eighth-inch (1⅛) high letters on contrasting background "UNAUTHORIZED VEHICLES WILL BE TOWED AWAY AT VEHICLE OWNER'S EXPENSE";

3. If unauthorized parking is not prohibited on a twenty-four (24) hour continuous basis, there shall also be posted in not less than one and one-eighth-inch-high letters the days of the week and hours of the day during which public parking is prohibited;

4. In not less than one and one-eighth-inch (1⅛) high letters, the Police Department telephone number and the section of the California Vehicle Code which authorizes the impounding of the vehicle.

C. The sign structure displaying the required notices shall be permanently installed with the bottom of the sign not less than four feet (4') above ground level and shall be continuously maintained on the property for not fewer than seventy-two (72) hours before the towing or removal of vehicles.

Pedestrian safety should be taken into consideration when locating freestanding signs. A violation of this Section shall be deemed an infraction.

(Ord. C-6135 § 3, 1985; Ord. C-6099 § 6, 1984)

No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle which is six feet (6') or more in height, including any load thereon, within one hundred feet (100') of an intersection on-streets which have been so posted with appropriate signs by the City Traffic Engineer.

(Ord. C-6246 § 4, 1986)

Pursuant to California Vehicle Code Section 21111, the following parking regulations shall apply within the boundaries of any housing project owned or operated by a public Housing Authority:

A. Permit required. No person shall stop, park or leave standing any vehicle whether attended or unattended except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic, or in compliance with the directions of a peace officer, in any area within a public housing project which is specifically designated and posted as a restricted parking lot, unless such vehicle clearly displays an authorized and valid parking permit duly issued by the Housing Authority.

B. Designated spaces. No person shall stop, park or leave standing any vehicle whether attended or unattended except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic, or in compliance with the directions of a peace officer, in any area within a public housing project which is specifically designated as a parking lot, with designated parking spaces marked for such use unless such vehicle is parked clearly within a designated space so provided.

C. No repair. It is unlawful for any person to construct or reconstruct, or cause to be constructed or reconstructed, repair or cause to be repaired, to grease or cause to be greased any vehicle or any part thereof upon any street, or in any designated parking lot or area within a public housing project; provided, however, that temporary, minor repairs in case of an emergency may be made upon any street or parking lot area to enable the vehicle to be moved to a proper place for mechanical work.

D. Signs. The Housing Authority shall erect or place appropriate signs giving notice of the regulations imposed under this Section, and a copy of these regulations shall be kept at an administrative office within the housing project and made available for examination by interested persons.

E. Towing. Any vehicle parked in violation of the provisions of this Section may be towed away at the owner's expense pursuant to California Vehicle Code Section 22658 and Section 10.22.160 of this Code.

(Ord. C-6663 § 1, 1989)

A. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Code, and pursuant to Section 22502(f) of the California Vehicle Code, vehicles may park on the left-hand side of the roadway parallel to and within 18 inches (18") of the left-hand curb on two-way local residential streets that dead-end with no cul-de-sac or other designated area in which to turn around.

B. The area covered by this ordinance shall be limited to the streets perpendicular to Ocean Boulevard beginning with Balboa Place and ending at 72 nd Place, but shall not include 62 nd Place.

C. This ordinance shall not apply until signs or markings giving notice have been placed near the designated roadways.

D. This pilot program shall terminate three (3) years from the date of enactment of this ordinance unless otherwise authorized by the California Vehicle Code.

E. The City Traffic Engineer may, from time to time, promulgate rules and regulations, consistent with the purposes and provisions of this Section 10.22.184, to facilitate implementation of the Section.

(ORD-15-0028, § 1, 2015)