Long Beach Municipal Code Ch. 10.33 Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District

This Chapter is enacted pursuant to authority granted by California Vehicle Code Sections 22507 and 22507.5, to alleviate serious problems in certain residential areas of the City due to temporary construction activities which may displace normal parking patterns and lead to the parking of motor vehicles on streets by nonresidents thereof for extended periods of time, and the ignoring of public transit alternatives to automobile travel available to said nonresidents, resulting in neighborhood decline in said areas by reason of traffic congestion, noise, air pollution, traffic hazards and inability of residents therein to park their motor vehicles near their residences.

(ORD-12-0017(Emerg.) § 1, 2012)

The City Traffic Engineer is designated as administrator for the Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District. The City Traffic Engineer may adopt rules and regulations governing the issuance of parking permits and the establishment of Temporary Construction Preferential Parking Districts. Such rules and regulations shall be consistent with the provisions of California Vehicle Code Section 22507.

(ORD-12-0017(Emerg.), § 1, 2012)

A. Severe parking impacts, defined as more than seventy-five percent (75%) of on-street spaces occupied during the period proposed for parking restriction or prohibition, have been created in any residential area of the City of Long Beach by construction activity. In cases where a time limit parking restriction or parking prohibition is already in place, the City Traffic Engineer shall use reasonable judgment as to whether the demand criteria would likely be met without the restriction or prohibition.

B. Construction activity must be of a duration of a minimum of two (2) weeks and a maximum of six (6) months. The duration of the Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District shall be coterminous with the duration of the construction project and its impacts, and shall be discontinued upon completion of construction and cessation of parking impacts, as determined by the City Traffic Engineer. In the event that the construction impacts are of a longer duration than six (6) months, the Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District may be renewed for two (2) additional six (6) month periods. No Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District shall have a duration of more than eighteen (18) months. If the construction activity lasts for more than eighteen (18) total months, residents must apply for a Preferential Parking District authorized by Long Beach Municipal Code Section 10.32.010 et seq., and conform with the requirements stated therein.

C. The proposed Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District, alone or in combination with other existing or potential Preferential Parking Districts, constitutes a reasonably self-contained area of parking demand and supply. The City Traffic Engineer shall make the determination of a reasonably self-contained area, utilizing boundaries such as major streets, nonresidential land uses, edges of higher or lower density residential areas, waterbodies and other natural features, and utilizing surveys of existing conditions to determine extent of area impacted by nonresident parking. The proposed Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District shall be of sufficient size to reasonably encompass the problem area and to offer sufficient on-street parking spaces to provide reasonable opportunity for residents to obtain parking.

(ORD-12-0017(Emerg.), § 1, 2012)

Upon adoption of this ordinance, the City Traffic Engineer shall be authorized to cause appropriate signs to be erected in the Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District as designated by the City Traffic Engineer, indicating prominently thereon the time limitation, period of day for its application and conditions under which permit parking shall be exempt therefrom.

(ORD-12-0017(Emerg.), § 1, 2012)

A. The Public Works Department, Office of the City Traffic Engineer, shall issue Temporary Construction Preferential Parking Permits. Each permit issued shall reflect by statements thereon or by color thereof, or both, the particular Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District for which the permit is issued.

B. Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District Permits may be issued only for passenger vehicles, pickup trucks, and vans, and only upon application of a person whose legal address is on a street, or portion thereof, designated as part of a Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District.

C. Up to three (3) Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District Permits may be issued per address. A Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District Permit may be issued to a person whose legal address is on a street, or portion thereof, designated as part of a Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District. Use of a Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District Permit is limited to residents, visitors and providers of services to the applicant or the applicant's residence and is not limited to a particular vehicle. The applicant is responsible for the proper use of the Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District Permit. Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District Permits may not be sold or transferred for monetary consideration to any third party. The sale or transfer of a permit in violation of this Chapter shall be subject to a fine in the amount of one hundred dollars ($100.00), and any misuse of any permit issued under this Section is grounds for revocation of the permit by the City Traffic Engineer pursuant to this Chapter.

D. An application may be submitted by either the owner of the property for which a Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District Permit is sought or the tenants of such property.

E. Any passenger vehicle, pickup truck or van properly displaying valid, unrevoked Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District Permits may be parked on any of the streets, or portions of streets, designated as constituting the Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District for which said permits have been issued without being limited by time restrictions on parking, other than those in effect for purposes of street sweeping or of prohibiting parking or stopping at any time or of prohibiting parking more than seventy-two (72) consecutive hours, set forth in this Title and applicable generally to parking of vehicles. Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District Permits shall not guarantee or reserve to the holder thereof any on-street parking space.

(ORD-12-0017(Emerg.), § 1, 2012)

A. No person shall falsely represent himself or herself as eligible for Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District Permits or furnish false information in an application therefor to the Office of the City Traffic Engineer.

B. No person shall copy, produce, or otherwise bring into existence a facsimile or counterfeit Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District Permit without written authorization of the City Traffic Engineer.

C. No person shall park or leave standing in a Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District a motor vehicle on which is displayed a facsimile or counterfeit Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District Permit.

D. No person whose Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District Permit has been revoked shall refuse or fail to surrender the Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District Permit to the City Traffic Engineer when requested by the City Traffic Engineer, in writing, to do so.

(ORD-12-0017(Emerg.), § 1, 2012)