Title 10 — VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
Chapter 10.36 — STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING—GENERALLY
Orinda Municipal Code · 2026-09 edition · updated 2026-09-29 · Orinda
10.36.010 - Application of regulations.¶
A. The provisions of this title prohibiting the stopping, standing or parking of a vehicle shall apply except when it is necessary to stop a vehicle to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with directions of a police officer or official traffic control device.
B. The provisions of this title 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 Vehicle Code or this title prohibiting or limiting the standing or parking of vehicles in specified places or at specified times. C. In addition to any other persons authorized by law, any employee of the city classified as police service aide or parking enforcement officer is authorized to give the notice required by the Vehicle Code of the State of California of any violation of that code or of local regulations governing the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles. D. For purposes of this chapter, the term "public parking facility" means any public parking lot or parking structure owned or leased by the city in which parking by the general public is permitted. (Ord. 00-06 § 2 (part))
10.36.020 - Use of streets or public parking facilities for storage of vehicles.¶
A. No person who owns or has possession, custody or control of any vehicle shall park or leave such vehicle standing upon any street or alley or public parking facility for a period of seventy-two (72) consecutive hours or more. For the purposes of this section, a vehicle shall be considered to have been parked or left standing for seventy-two (72) or more consecutive hours if it has remained inoperable or has not been moved at least one-half of a mile or more during that seventy-two (72) hour period. B. In the event a vehicle is parked or left standing upon a street or alley or public parking facility in excess of a consecutive period of seventy-two (72) hours, any member of the police department authorized by the Chief of Police may remove such vehicle from the street as authorized by the California Vehicle Code and subject to the provisions of this section. C. Prior to removing any vehicle, notice shall be affixed to the vehicle advising that the vehicle will be removed for violation of this section after seventy-two (72) hours unless it is moved at least one-half of a mile. D. Whenever a member of the police department removes a vehicle pursuant to this section and causes it to be stored as permitted by the California Vehicle Code, the Chief of Police or his or her designee shall comply with the requirements of Section 22852 of the California Vehicle Code relating to post-storage notice and hearing for registered owners and legal owners of record. (Ord. 00-06 § 2 (part))
10.36.030 - Parking for repair prohibited.¶
No person shall park a vehicle upon any street or alley or public parking facility for the purpose of servicing, repairing or otherwise working on such vehicle except repairs necessitated by an emergency. (Ord. 00-06 § 2(part); Ord. No. 12-01, § 4, 3-20-12)
10.36.040 - Parallel parking.¶
A. Subject to other and more restrictive limitations, a vehicle may be stopped or parked within eighteen (18) inches of the left-hand curb facing in the direction of traffic movement upon any one-way street unless the City Manager has caused signs to be erected prohibiting such stopping or standing. B. In the event a highway includes two (2) or more separate roadways and traffic is restricted to one direction upon any such roadway, no person shall stand or park a vehicle upon the left-hand side of such one-way roadway unless the City Manager has caused signs to be erected permitting such standing or parking. C. The City Manager is authorized to determine when standing or parking shall be prohibited upon the left- hand side of any one-way street or alley or when standing or parking may be permitted upon the left-hand side of any one-way roadway of a highway having two (2) or more separate roadways and shall erect signs giving notice thereof. D. The requirement of parallel parking in this section shall not apply in the event any commercial vehicle is actually engaged in the process of loading or unloading freight or goods, in which case that vehicle may be backed up to the curb, provided that such vehicle does not extend beyond the centerline of the street and does not block traffic thereby. (Ord. 00-06 § 2 (part))
10.36.050 - Angle parking.¶
A. Whenever an ordinance or resolution of the city designates and describes all or any part of a street or public parking facility where angle parking shall be permitted, the City Manager shall mark or sign such street or facility to indicate the angle at which vehicles shall be parked. B. When signs or markings are in place indicating angle parking, no person shall park or stand a vehicle other than at the angle to the curb or edge of the roadway indicated by such signs or markings.
(Ord. 00-06 § 2 (part))
10.36.060 - Parking adjacent to schools.¶
A. The City Manager is authorized to place signs and to place markings on curbs, pavement, and similar areas to provide adequate control for vehicle parking and loading on any street or street segment adjacent to any school property in accordance with those traffic engineering and safety standards and instructions set forth in policies and warrants for traffic control devices near schools, adopted by ordinance or resolution of the legislative body of the city. B. When official signs or markings are installed indicating no parking upon a street or street segment adjacent to any school property, no person shall park a vehicle in any such designated place. (Ord. 00-06 § 2 (part))
10.36.070 - Stopping or parking prohibited—Signs required.¶
A. The City Manager is authorized to appropriately sign or mark the following places and when so signed or marked no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle in any of said places: 1. At any place within thirty (30) feet of a crosswalk at an intersection in any business district except that a bus may stop at a designated bus stop; 2. Within fifty (50) feet of the approach to any traffic signal, boulevard stop sign or official electric flashing device; 3. At any place where the City Manager determines that it is necessary or desirable. (Ord. 00-06 § 2 (part))
10.36.080 - Parking space markings.¶
A. The City Manager is authorized to install and maintain parking space markings to indicate parking spaces where authorized parking is permitted. B.
When such parking space markings are placed in a street, alley, or public parking facility, subject to other and more restrictive limitations, no vehicle shall be stopped, left standing or parked other than within a single space unless the size or shape of such vehicle makes compliance impossible. C. No vehicle over six (6) feet wide or fifteen (15) feet long (including loads or accessories) shall park or stand in a parking space marked as a small car or compact car space. (Ord. 00-06 § 2 (part))
10.36.090 - Parking on city property.¶
A. Whenever the City Manager determines that the orderly, efficient conduct of the city's business requires that parking or standing of vehicles on city property owned or controlled by the city other than city streets or alleys should be prohibited, limited or restricted, the City Manager shall have the power and authority to order signs to be erected or posted or curb markings to be placed indicating that the parking of vehicles is thus prohibited, limited or restricted. B. When signs or curb markings authorized by the provisions of this section are in place, no person shall park or stand any vehicle contrary to the directions or provisions of such signs or curb markings. (Ord. 00-06 § 2 (part))
10.36.100 - Parking adjacent/in front of residential mail box.¶
No person shall park a vehicle upon any street or alley, directly in front of or adjacent to a residential mail box so as to impede access to or use of the mail box by the resident or postal carrier. (Ord. 00-06 § 2 (part))
10.36.110 - Living in vehicles prohibited.¶
No person shall park, locate, maintain or use for human habitation, including sleeping, any mobile home, trailer, boat, recreation vehicle or any other private or commercial vehicle on any street, highway or public right-of-way. (Ord. 00-06 § 2 (part))
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▸Title 10 — VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
Overview- Chapter 10.04 — PROCEDURE FOR ADOPTION OF TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
- Chapter 10.08 — DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 10.10 — ENFORCEMENT AND OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
- Chapter 10.12 — TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES
- Chapter 10.16 — TURNING MOVEMENTS
- Chapter 10.20 — ONE-WAY STREETS AND ALLEYS
- Chapter 10.24 — SPECIAL STOPS REQUIRED
- Chapter 10.34 — ABANDONED, WRECKED, DISMANTLED OR INOPERATIVE …
- Chapter 10.36 — STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING—GENERALLY
- Chapter 10.40 — STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING—LOADING AND UNL…
- Chapter 10.44 — STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING—PROHIBITED OR R…
- Chapter 10.45 — PREFERENTIAL PARKING PRIVILEGES
- Chapter 10.52 — PARKING OF COMMERCIAL VEHICLES
- Chapter 10.60 — PARKING VIOLATIONS, PROCEDURES AND APPEALS
- Chapter 10.64 — BICYCLES, ROLLER SKATES AND COASTERS
- Chapter 10.70 — VEHICLE TRIP REDUCTION PROGRAM
- Article 2 — Employer and Complex Requirements
- Article 3 — Review Standards, Procedure and Appeal
- Article 4 — Enforcement and Penalties
- Title 12 — STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND PUBLIC PLACES
- Title 13 — PUBLIC SERVICES
- Title 15 — BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION
- Title 16 — SUBDIVISIONS
- Title 17 — ZONING
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