Rolling Hills Estates Municipal Code Ch. 10.24 Stopping, Standing and Parking Generally

The provisions of this title prohibiting the stopping, standing or parking of a vehicle shall apply at all times or at those times herein specified, 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.

(Prior code § 430)

Green curb markings shall mean no standing or parking for a period of time longer than indicated when authorized signs and curb markings have been placed, in areas designated by council resolution, by the city traffic engineer giving notice thereof in accordance with this section, between the hours of nine a.m. and nine p.m. on any day except Sundays and holidays.

A. Signs and green curb markings indicating no standing or parking for a period of time of longer than five minutes;

B. Signs and green curb markings indicating no standing or parking for a period of time of longer than twelve minutes;

C. Signs and green curb markings indicating no standing or parking for a period of time of longer than twenty-four minutes.

(Prior code § 450)

When authorized signs or curb markings have been placed in areas designated by council resolution, by the city traffic engineer giving notice thereof, no operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park said vehicle in such area between the hours of nine a.m. and six p.m. of any day except Sundays and holidays for a period of time longer than forty minutes.

(Prior code § 451)

When authorized signs or curb markings have been placed in areas designated by council resolution, by the city traffic engineer giving notice thereof, no operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park said vehicle in such area between the hours of nine a.m. and six p.m. of any day except Sundays and holidays for a period of time longer than one hour.

(Prior code § 452)

When authorized signs or curb markings have been placed in areas designated by council resolution, by the city traffic engineer giving notice thereof, no operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park said vehicle in such area between the hours of nine a.m. and six p.m. of any day except Sundays and holidays for a period of time longer than two hours.

(Prior code § 453)

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

B. In the event a highway includes two 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 signs are in place permitting such standing or parking.

C. The city traffic engineer is authorized to determine when standing or parking shall be prohibited upon the left-hand side of any one-way street or when standing or parking may be permitted upon the left-hand side of any one-way roadway of a highway having two or more separate roadways and shall erect signs giving notice thereof.

D. The requirement of parallel parking imposed by 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 such 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.

(Prior code § 454)

A. On any of the streets or portions of streets established by resolution of the council as diagonal parking zones, when signs or pavement markings are in place indicating such diagonal parking, it shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to park said vehicle except:

1. At the angle to the curb indicated by signs or pavement markings allotting space to parked vehicles and entirely within the limits of the allotted space;

2. With the front wheel nearest the curb within six inches of the curb.

B. The provisions of this section shall not apply when such vehicle is actually engaged in the process of loading or unloading passengers, freight or goods, in which event the provisions of Section 10.24.060(D) shall be complied with.

(Prior code § 455)

A. The city traffic engineer is authorized to install and maintain parking space markings to indicate parking spaces adjacent to curbings where parking is permitted.

B. When such parking space markings are placed on the highway, 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. Except as otherwise provided in this title, every vehicle stopped or parked upon a roadway where there are adjacent curbs shall be stopped or parked with the right-hand wheels of such vehicle parallel with and within eighteen inches of the right-hand curb, except that motorcycles shall be parked with at least one wheel or fender touching the right-hand curb. Where no curbs or barriers bound any roadway, right-hand parallel parking is required unless otherwise indicated. Provisions of this section do not apply to a commercial vehicle if a variation from the above requirement is reasonably necessary to accomplish loading or unloading of merchandise or passengers on, or from, such vehicle and while anything connected with such loading, or unloading, is being accomplished.

(Ord. 561 § 1, 1993; prior code § 456)

A. No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle on any street for any period of time between the hours of three a.m. and five a.m. of any day except:

1. On any street exempted from the provisions hereof by resolution of the city council;

2. Any emergency vehicle in service;

3. A licensed physician actually engaged in making professional calls;

4. Any vehicle with a parking permit issued pursuant to subsection B. of this section.

B. Permits allowing all night parking of vehicles may be issued by the city manager dependent upon the length of time required by the applicant as follows:

1. Temporary permits for up to five days without application or investigation. Temporary permits may be renewed for additional five-day periods not more than twice consecutively or fifteen days maximum within any given calendar year;

2. Annual permits upon application and upon determination of hardship.

C. In determining hardship for an annual permit, the city manager shall be guided by the number of garage spaces available to the applicant, other alternative off-street parking available, and the effect on traffic flow and safety. A hardship shall not be considered in the case of where a garage, or portions thereof, has been converted for purposes other than that of a garage or if such garage is being used for other purposes (such as for storage of items) other than for that of a passenger vehicle(s). In the event that a resident has any trailers or any motorcycle(s) or other type of mobile equipment, such as an all-terrain-vehicle (ATV), whether registered by the DMV or not, parked in a garage, all such vehicles together shall only qualify to occupy one parking space maximum (ten feet by twenty feet) in place of where a passenger vehicle would park, solely for the purposes of evaluating whether or not an on-street parking permit should be granted. In no case shall a single address be allowed more than two on-street parking permits. The adequacy of off-street parking for number of vehicles at each address shall be determined as follows:

1. In garages, one vehicle shall be parked within each area at least ten feet wide and twenty feet deep;

2. In straight driveways, one vehicle shall be parked within each area at least ten feet wide and twenty-two feet deep. One additional vehicle shall be parked in the driveway if the depth of the driveway exceeds forty-three feet;

3. In curved driveways, one vehicle shall be parked within each area at least ten feet wide and twenty-two feet deep, measured along the radius at the center of the driveway. If the driveway is at least twenty feet wide and forty-four feet deep measured along the outside of the radius, one additional car shall be parked for each additional area at least ten feet wide and twenty-two feet deep;

4. In circular driveways, one vehicle shall be parked within each area at least ten feet wide and twenty-two feet deep;

5. In combination driveways, the standards established for all other driveway types shall apply in combination;

6. In driveways with steep slopes (greater than fifteen percent), one vehicle shall be parked within each area at least ten feet wide and twenty-five feet deep;

7. The availability of on-street parking is adequate to insure that traffic flow on the street in the vicinity will not be impaired or sight distances obstructed, as determined by the city's traffic engineer;

8. The vehicle for which the permit is sought is a passenger vehicle. This excludes campers, motorhomes, trailers of any kind; and trucks, vans or sport utility vehicles (SUVs) in excess of seven feet wide, six and one-half feet high or twenty feet long, inclusive of any projecting racks and/or vehicle appurtenances. No commercial advertising shall be allowed on a vehicle with a valid on-street parking permit; and,

9. The size of the vehicle for which the permit is sought, relative to the size of other vehicles available to the applicant utilizing the off-street parking. If there is a smaller practicable vehicle which could use the on-street parking, the city manager shall have the discretion to require that the applicant apply the on-street parking permit to that vehicle.

D. The form of application, and fees therefore shall be determined by resolution of the city council.

(Prior code §§ 458, 459)

(Ord. No. 670, § 1, 1-25-2011; Ord. No. 681, § 1, 9-27-2011)

No operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand, park or leave standing such vehicle in any of the following places, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the direction of a police officer or other authorized officer, or traffic sign or signal:

A. Within any divisional island unless authorized and clearly indicated with appropriate signs or markings;

B. Upon, along or across any railway track in such manner as to hinder, delay or obstruct the movement of any car traveling upon such track;

C. On any street or highway where the use of such street or highway or a portion thereof is necessary for the cleaning, repair or construction of the street or highway or the installation of underground utilities or where the use of the street or highway or any portion thereof is authorized for a purpose other than the normal flow of traffic or where the use of the street or highway or any portion thereof is necessary for the movement of equipment, articles or structures of unusual size, and the parking of such vehicle would prohibit or interfere with such use or movement; provided, that signs giving notice of such no parking are erected or placed in the areas.

D. At any place within twenty feet of a point on the curb immediately opposite the mid-block end of a safety zone, when such place is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface.

E. At any place within twenty feet of a crosswalk at an intersection in any business district when such place is indicated by appropriate signs or red paint upon the curb surface except that a bus may stop at a designated bus stop.

F. Within twenty feet of the approach to any traffic signal, boulevard stop sign, or official electric flashing device.

(Prior code § 433)

The city traffic engineer is authorized to place signs or markings indicating no parking upon any street when the width of the roadway does not exceed twenty feet, or upon one side of a street as indicated by such signs or markings when the width of the roadway does not exceed thirty feet.

(Prior code § 438)

No person shall park or leave standing any vehicle unattended on a highway when upon any grade exceeding three percent without blocking the wheels of the vehicle by turning them against the curb or by other means.

(Prior code § 439)

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

(Prior code § 434)

A. No person shall park any commercial trailer or semitrailer upon any highway, street, alley, public way or public place unless the trailer is at all times, while so parked, attached to a vehicle capable of moving the trailer or semitrailer in a normal manner upon the highway, street, alley, public way or public place.

B. This section shall apply only to a vehicle combined with trailer or semitrailer having a gross weight of ten thousand pounds of more.

C. This section shall not apply to trailers or semitrailers in the process of being loaded or unloaded, nor shall it apply to any noncommercial horse trailer otherwise legally parked, nor shall it apply to any trailer or semitrailer which is disabled in such a manner and to such an extent that it is impossible to avoid stopping and temporarily leaving the disabled trailer or semitrailer on that portion of the highway, street, alley, public way or public place ordinarily used for vehicular parking.

(Prior code § 434.1)

No operator of any vehicle, or any other person, shall park or maintain said vehicle upon any street, right-of-way, or any other public property in this city for the principal purpose of advertising or displaying it for sale, unless authorized by resolution of the council.

(Prior code § 435)

A. The city traffic engineer shall designate established no-stopping zones by placing and maintaining appropriate signs indicating that stopping of vehicles is prohibited and indicating the hours and days when stopping is prohibited.

B. During the hours and on the days designated on the signs, it shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to stop said vehicle on any of the streets or parts of streets established by resolution of the council as no- stopping zones.

(Prior code § 457)

A. The city traffic engineer is authorized to maintain, by appropriate signs or by paint upon the curb surface, all no-stopping zones, no-parking areas, and restricted parking areas, as designated by resolution of the council.

B. When the curb markings or signs are in place, no operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park such vehicle adjacent to any such restricted parking area.

(Prior code § 432)

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

(Prior code § 431)

A. Whenever the city traffic engineer shall determine that an emergency traffic congestion is likely to result from the holding of public or private assemblages, gatherings, or functions, or for other reasons, the city traffic engineer shall have power and authority to order temporary signs to be erected or posted indicating that the operation, parking or standing of vehicles is prohibited on such streets and alleys as the city traffic engineer shall direct during the time such temporary signs are in place. Such signs shall remain in place only during the existence of such emergency and the city traffic engineer shall cause such signs to be removed promptly thereafter.

B. When signs authorized by the provisions of this section are in place giving notice thereof, no person shall operate, park or stand any vehicle contrary to the directions and provisions of such signs.

(Prior code § 441)

A. City Business License and Vehicle Code Compliance. No person may engage in, conduct or carry on the business of peddling from a pushcart or motorized vehicle (i.e., a mobile vending vehicle or a mobile food vending vehicle), without a business license issued pursuant to Chapter 5.04 (Business Licenses Generally) of this code. For the purposes of this section, a "mobile vending vehicle" is a vehicle used to sell any product, including food, and a "mobile food vending vehicle" is a vehicle used primarily to sell food. The mobile vending vehicle must be in full compliance with all applicable California Vehicle Code (CVC) provisions and obey all posted parking restrictions including, but not limited to, restrictions on stopping, loading, and parking from either posted signs (including street sweeping restricted days/times) or painted curbs. No mobile vending vehicle may produce any type of solid or liquid discharge onto any street.

B. Permitted Operating Locations. In general, no peddler may stand or park any pushcart or mobile vending vehicle in any non-residential zone, including on both public and private property and public and private streets, for the purposes of selling any type of goods. However, a temporary use permit (TUP), issued by the city manager, may be obtained for special events (i.e., fundraising events, street fairs, private parties, horse shows) whereby a peddler may be permitted to locate a pushcart or mobile vending vehicle at a specified location in a non-residential zone and operate for the time period specified in the TUP. In addition, an annual TUP may be obtained by a general contractor for any large construction project, city-wide, where a vending vehicle may be permitted to operate for the period of time and locations specified in the TUP. The vending vehicle may only service the construction workers physically working at the particular job site. The TUP will be valid from date of building permit issuance through the date of issuance of the certificate of occupancy.

C. Health Department Permits. A peddler operating a mobile food vending vehicle must have valid approvals from the County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health, including but not limited to a food handling permit and a valid letter grade health permit is required, and must be displayed at all times in a conspicuous view upon the peddler's mobile food vending vehicle.

D. Operating Time Limits. No peddler may stand or park any pushcart or mobile vending vehicle for more than thirty minutes in any residential zone; provided, however, that this thirty-minute time period does not apply to a peddler who is lawfully parked and peddling goods with a temporary use permit (TUP) issued by the city manager for special events or as allowed for by a school event (see below for more requirements for temporary use permits and school property events). No peddler may park within five hundred feet, as measured in any direction, of an area where he or she previously parked at the beginning of the thirty-minute period, until twenty-four hours have elapsed from the end of the thirty-minute period. No peddler may operate or park a mobile vending vehicle on any street or on private property during the hours of eight p.m. through seven a.m. of the next succeeding day, with the exception of a TUP.

E. Peddling Within Proximity to Schools. No peddler may keep, maintain or operate any pushcart used in selling food products or a mobile food vending vehicle in or upon any public street or other public place, including both public and private property, within five hundred feet of the nearest property line of any property on which a public or private school building is located. This prohibition will not apply if the school principal gives the peddler written permission to park on school property to sell, give away, distribute or offer to sell any food or other products. If the school principal authorizes an individual or entity to peddle on school property, then any peddler who is peddling pursuant to that authorization must provide a copy of the principal's written authorization to the city within five days of receipt of the authorization from the principal, and maintain a copy of the principal's written authorization in his or her possession while the person is peddling on the school's property and must present the letter of authorization, upon request from a city official or employee or representative of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

F. Restroom Requirements for Mobile Food Peddler. For any peddler operating a mobile food vending vehicle for more than thirty minutes under a temporary use permit (TUP) or on school property with permission from the school principal, there must be sufficient access to nearby or on-site restroom facilities and hand washing stations (not more than two hundred fifty feet away) for employees and patrons while the peddler is operating. The peddler must clearly post on the vehicle, within three feet of the opening in the vehicle through which food or food products are offered for sale or sold and visible to customers, a notice stating that: (1) a toilet and hand washing facility has been made available as required by this subsection; and (2) the location of that facility. Written permission is not required to use publicly owned toilet and hand washing facilities that are open and accessible for use by the general public.

G. Trash Receptacle Requirements. Each mobile food vending vehicle must be equipped with a trash receptacle of a size adequate to accommodate all trash and refuse generated by such vending. Each peddler must pick up and deposit in the trash receptacle on the vehicle any paper, cups, wrappers, litter, or other refuse of any kind which was a part of the goods or merchandise supplied from the vehicle and which has been left or abandoned within twenty-five feet of such vehicle on any public or private property other than in a trash receptacle provided for such purposes. No peddler may dispose of any trash or refuse in any such public or private trash receptacle other than a trash receptacle owned, operated, or otherwise provided by and under the control of such peddler.

H. No Peddling Permitted on Traffic Side of Vehicle. Vending is strictly prohibited on the exposed street and/or traffic side of the mobile vending vehicle.

I. Use of Amplified Devices. No amplified sound-making devices may be used to draw attention to, or announce the presence of, a peddler's mobile vending vehicle upon any public street. Non-amplified sound-making devices may be permitted for such purposes; provided, that (1) such sounds are not made while the vehicle is stopped, parking, or otherwise in a stationary position; and (2) such sounds are not audible to a person with normal hearing for a distance of more than two hundred feet. The peddler must prohibit loitering at the site and control noisy patrons on-site and those leaving the premises. No amplified music or loudspeakers are permitted. The operation must at all times comply with the provisions of the city's noise ordinance.

J. Distance from Intersection, Driveway and Bus Stops Required. No peddler operating a mobile vending vehicle may operate within twenty-five feet of any street corner controlled by a crosswalk, traffic light, or stop sign. No mobile vending vehicle may park within ten feet of a bus stop, mailbox, and within ten feet of a driveway apron to preserve adequate visibility for vehicles to exit driveways. The city's traffic engineer may require additional distance requirements from driveway aprons given unique circumstances of the adjacent roadway and size of the mobile vending vehicle.

(Prior code § 440)

(Ord. No. 707, Exh. A, 10-10-2016)

No person shall construct or cause to be constructed, repair or cause to be repaired, grease or cause to be greased, dismantle or cause to be dismantled any vehicle or any part thereof upon any public street in this city. Temporary emergency repairs may be made upon a public street.

(Prior code § 436)

No person shall wash or caused to be washed, polish or cause to be polished any vehicle or any part thereof upon any public street in this city.

(Prior code § 437)

Every motor truck having an unladen weight of four thousand pounds or more, and every truck tractor irrespective of weight when operated upon any street or highway during darkness shall be equipped with and carry at least two flares or two red lanterns or two warning lights or reflectors, which reflectors shall be of a type approved by the Department of California Highway Patrol. When any vehicle abovementioned or any trailer or semitrailer is disabled upon streets or highways outside of any business or residential district within this city and upon which street or highway there is insufficient street lighting to reveal a vehicle at a distance of two hundred feet during darkness, a warning signal of the character indicated above shall be immediately placed at a distance of approximately one hundred feet in advance of, and one hundred feet to the rear of such disabled vehicle by the driver thereof. The continuous flashing of at least four approved class A type I turn signal lamps, at least two toward the front and at least two toward the rear of the vehicle, shall be considered to meet the requirements of this section until the devices mentioned above can be placed in the required locations. The warning signals herein mentioned shall be displayed continuously during darkness while such vehicle remains disabled upon such street or highway.

(Prior code § 442)

A. A vehicle transporting a hazardous material or substance as identified in Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations must be attended at all times by its driver or a qualified representative of the motor carrier that operates it, and shall not be parked on any highway, highway shoulder, street, alley, public way or public place, or within five feet of the traveled portion thereof, within a residential zone or within one thousand feet of any school or within three hundred feet of any bridge or tunnel, except for brief periods when mechanical or equipment failure or disablement or malfunction of the vehicle, or the necessities of operation require the vehicle to be parked and make it impractical to park the vehicle in any other place.

B. Repair, maintenance, refuse, utility, termite and pesticide vehicles, fuel delivery vehicles, and vehicles delivering life-support and health commodities, while servicing residential areas or schools are exempt from the provisions of subsection A of this section. Additionally, such exempt vehicles need not be attended while the drivers are performing duties that are evident and necessary as the operator of the vehicle or the provider of the service.

C. For the purposes of this section:

1. A motor vehicle is attended when the person in charge of the vehicle is on the vehicle, aware and not in a sleeper berth, or is within one hundred feet of the vehicle and has it within his unobstructed field of view.

2. A qualified representative of a motor carrier is a person who:

a. Has been designated by the carrier to attend the vehicle;

b. Is aware of the nature of the hazardous material or substance contained in the vehicle he attends;

c. Has been instructed on the procedures he must follow in emergencies concerning hazardous materials or substances;

d. Is authorized to move the vehicle and has the means and ability to do so.

D. The requirements of this section do not relieve a driver from any obligation imposed by federal, state or local laws relating to the transportation of hazardous materials or explosives, motor carrier safety regulations or the placement of warning signs or devices when a motor vehicle is stopped on a public street or highway.

(Prior code § 443)